Well, cripes--turns out I've been unsubscribed from SANET for
several months! Wondered why everyone was so quiet! :^)
Those of you who work in or near suburban communities or deal with
folks in the urban shadow might be interested in a fabulous profile
of John Greenlee in last week's /New Yorker/ (Aug. 19, 1996, with
the giant insects taking over the suburban home on the cover,
ironically enough). He is a landscaper and horticulturalist known
in the California bioregional/biodiverse gardening movement and an
articulate critic of the American lawn.
Excellent perspective on a highly chemical intensive monocrop on
which people spend $30 billion a year and get...what?...back.
Reminds me of nuclear weapons: spend tons of money and effort on
something for which our best hope is we'll never use it. Faugh, say
I.
A woman I used to garden with here says, "Lawns are for cemeteries."
Well, and ballparks.
peace
michele
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Center for Integrated Ag Systems/Ag Technology & Family Farm Institute
UW-Madison College of Ag and Life Sciences
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