When The Other Mans Grass Is Greener – Lawn Re-wilding For Beginners

SEASON 5 – EPISODE 6 – When The Other Mans Grass Is Greener – Lawn Re-wilding For Beginners

If you want to help the planet, a really easy win is to ditch your lawn, it will help promote bees and insects that are vital to life on this planet and also save you a lot of time.

The lawn as we know it today is a carbon creating status symbol, a construct of rich land owners to show off their wealth by wasting land rather than farming on it. The elite didn’t want anybody to think they might be mere farmers, so instead of crops they planted grass on the most visible parts of their properties. Only stupidly rich people could waste land like that and be able to afford to have it cut by peasants with scythes, and today it is simply a harmful fashion, a fashion that needs to change.

This video make the argument for rewilding your lawn and turning your carbon creating status symbol into a carbon collecting oasis for the birds, bees and insects