Subj : HOPE for the naturalized lawn..
To   : August Abolins
From : George Pope
Date : Tue May 31 2022 09:11:38

> "Instead of a manicured lawn and garden, Beth and Craig
> Sinclair planted 150 trees and other native plant species in
> front of their bungalow. The couple, who moved to Smiths Falls
> from Seattle about a decade ago, said natural lawns like theirs
> are common in their former city."
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/smith-falls-naturalized-
> lawn-yard-victory-bylaw-environment-ecology-wildlife-diversity-
> 1.6467370

My first thought is "Yeah? And. . .?"

I would hope we have a sovereign right over our own property to plant anything  not  inimical to others & not explicitly illegal by democratically passed law  (e.g. opium poppies' as a cash crop).

I'm all about natural -- I'd love a 'yard' (if it's still such) that is a patch of the kind of woods I grew up wandering around in -- A loose empty, but for  trees(deciduous & evergreen together) both upright(live) & down(various stages  of returning to the soil), ferns, & shrubs, under a thick canopy that blocks  out the sun in the non-winter hours -- I loved hanging around in such, picking  berries, pulling up licorice ferns off downed cedars, seeing various signs of  wildlife.  I picked up a perfect sense of direction -- I could enter the woods  at the top -- bop around all day, then pop out several miles down, just where  my home's road began, to arrive home just in time for 5pm supper!  Half filled  with huckleberries & licorice -- giving me perfect digestion & BMs all through  my childhood -- active, healthy natural fiber-rich diet.

Then I sank away from such &spent the next 120-20 years eating garbage, lazing, smoking, drinking, et al, but my earlier foundation kept me going more or less  healthy in spite of myself! (It definitely helped that my mom only bought  organic healthy foods in the year I lived there until leaving home at age 12,  to seek my fortune. (still looking, but doing mighty fine overall.)

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