No Lawns

A good compromise is to leave some "wild" patches for flowers and bugs and so on and use a mower robot to keep the rest short. Best of both worlds.

Then we spread water unnecessarily all over the lawn to help it grow?

The only care my lawn gets is a mowing or needle raking once in a year. Some bush trimming maybe, but that's it. Rabbits, neighborhood cats, and deer hang out in it all the time.

I would rather live in a dense area and not even have a yard, and instead visit the nearby park for my greenery needs.

i have a reel mower. until i can completely subvert my lawn, i don't need to tolerate the smoke and noise, at least.

Lawns:

1. require artificial irrigation that contributes to depletion ofvaquifers

2. create monocultures that reduce biodiversity and harm ecosystems

3. require maintenance that usually involves burning fossil fuels

4. shadeless lawns contribute to warmer neighborhoods

5. act as nitrogen sinks

You could do what I did:

1. only buy a house in a place that has no HOA
2. xeriscape the front, let most of the back just grow out wild, and keep a small patch of grass in an area where you like to chill (for me this is in a courtyard)
3. use an old school push mower for this small patch. You get a little exercise with this, but not enough to ever stress ya, and it requires no gas, no oil, no electricity and barely ever any maintenance.

The only thing that sucks about it... is paying someone $65/week to get it done. I seriously need a zero turn mower.

Lawns are one of those things we do without thinking about it because it's what everyone else has.

If you have space for a lawn, why not turn it into something beautiful and productive like a garden?

Oh, because your neighbors will get made at you for being different.

I love mowing lawns. Put some headphones on and a good audiobook and I can mow for hours. I'm actually a little sad that I only have a small lawn now, because I can barely get into a rhythm before I'm done.