#frontyards — Public Fediverse posts

Some Home Gardeners Are Covering Front Yards With Mulch Instead of Grass, And Neighbors Say the Streets Are Starting to Look “Too Dry” https://www.allforgardening.com/1768707/some-home-gardeners-are-covering-front-yards-with-mulch-instead-of-grass-and-neighbors-say-the-streets-are-starting-to-look-too-dry/ #Appearance #FrontYards #garden #gardener #gardening #GreenLawns

Some Home Gardeners Are Covering Front Yards With Mulch Instead of Grass, And Neighbors Say the Streets Are Starting to Look “Too Dry” https://www.allforgardening.com/1768707/some-home-gardeners-are-covering-front-yards-with-mulch-instead-of-grass-and-neighbors-say-the-streets-are-starting-to-look-too-dry/ #Appearance #FrontYards #garden #gardener #gardening #GreenLawns

Growing #Food Instead of #Lawns in #California #FrontYards
Front yards transformed to #crop #farms in #LosAngeles provide vegetables to dozens of families in a one-mile radius, and often with #foodinsecurity and use a fraction of #water needed by grass
Small farms bring environmental benefits, thanks to irrigation and containment systems that capture and recycle rain. That allows farms to produce thousands of pounds of food without using much water
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/climate/microfarms-cropswapla-food-deserts.html
https://archive.ph/XrerA

Growing #Food Instead of #Lawns in #California #FrontYards

Front #yards transformed to tiny #cropfarms in #LosAngeles provide #vegetables to dozens of families and use a fraction of the water needed by #grass.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/climate/microfarms-cropswapla-food-deserts.html