can we stop pretending lawns are cute?

a brief history of lawns, why they suck and how you can reintroduce more biodiversity into the world (and why it matters)

Photo by Mihály Köles on Unsplash

I had drunk the koolaide too, when it came to lawns. Lawns were (and are) everywhere, manicured, lush lawns. Empty lawns. Where’s the life? Where’s the variety?

Growing up, my mom’s husband was fixated with the lawn. I didn’t quite understand this fixation at the time but I now understand that, for him, it was a status sy…