Why grow grass when you can eat your front yard? Grass is no longer cool, according to this article in Time [1]:
The problem, as [architect and founder Fritz] Haeg sees it, is that the “hyper-manicured lawn” is looking increasingly out of date. In the 1950s, when suburbia first began to sprawl, a perfectly trimmed front yard embodied the post-war prosperity Americans aspired to. Today, amid rising fuel costs, food safety scares and growing environmental awareness, a chemically treated and verdant but nutritionally barren lawn seems wasteful, he says.
Haeg has also published a new book: [2]
The publication of Haeg’s new book, Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, marks the beginning of a concerted national campaign to dramatically overthrow an American institution, the front lawn.
If you’re curious, visit the Edible Estates site. [2]Invite me over when the tomatoes growing in your front yard are ripe . . .
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