Lawn Wars: The Struggle for a New Lawn Ethic
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Lawn Wars Review

by Gail Mally Mack

Lois Robbins in her book Lawn Wars tells of her experience and the American culture's obsession with lawns. She discusses her reconnection with the earth via her lawn and investigates the tension between nature and culture. Although she is speaking from a poetic, humorous, personal point of view recounting her experiences, observations, and story, Lawn Wars is also a survey, an analysis, a treatise and a communication addressing where and how we interact in our living space and environment. It is validated by research and documentation giving statistics, historical and contemporary quotes and facts.

She identifies and examines native species, herbicides, and fertilizers discussing their importance and their function in the environmental balance of a bioregion. Acknowledging that lawns are part of the American dream and their benefits and connection to private ownership and rights, she gives alternatives that will maintain and further our sense of beauty and knowledge of the natural world as well as provide a non toxic sustainable healthy situation for non exotic plants, wild life, bugs , birds and people. She gives details and definitions of words like sod-busting, geophilia, industrial lawns, legal ordinances, lawn aesthetics, Wildlife Habitat, and resources such as science and conservation, US Environmental pProtection agency, National Native Plant Nursery Directory, Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes and others.


I never liked cutting the lawn when I was young.

Lawn Wars Review by Cory Johnston, P.E.


Articles

Brandon Twp.- Do we really need lawns?
by Susan Bromley, The Citizen October 21, 2009

Garden Boasts Low-Maintenance Native Plants
The Oakland Press  May 25, 2008

God & St. Francis

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