[HN Gopher] Gardens reduce seasonal hunger gaps for farmland pol...
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       Gardens reduce seasonal hunger gaps for farmland pollinators
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2024-11-07 18:14 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | anon291 wrote:
       | Gotta undo the tyranny of the lawn. God made so many beautiful
       | plants. Grass is lovely but so is everything else. Make your
       | garden beautiful
        
         | MisterTea wrote:
         | Here in NYC its they tyranny of pavement and lust of patios.
         | Meanwhile my yard grows wild and is a sanctuary for wildlife.
         | No water pools because it goes right into the ground. Neighbors
         | complain I have a shit hole back yard and my reply is "huh. all
         | I see is nature." Fuck them.
        
           | PaulHoule wrote:
           | I grew up on the outskirts of Manchester, NH where a Polish
           | farmer subdivided part of his field and sold it to mostly
           | Polish and French Canadian families. They built a house in
           | 1973 and didn't do any more earthmoving than they had to do
           | to put in the foundation.
           | 
           | By 1980 they built route 93 bypassing the downtown and built
           | the mall, all the department stores were gone in a few years.
           | By '87 or so they built a huge Arizona style subdivision in
           | the field behind my house, then circa '00 an even larger
           | subdivision across Wellington Rd.
           | 
           | When they built the new subdivisions they used bulldozers to
           | remove the topsoil and they sold it. They rolled in fresh new
           | green sod that looked great when they were selling the houses
           | but in six months the lawns were terribly brown and could
           | only be revived by heavy application of chemicals and water.
           | 
           | Half of our neighbors wondered what we did to get our lawn
           | looking so good, the other half were mad at us for harboring
           | dandilions. The '00 subdivision charged new homeowners for a
           | "landscaper's special" which was a few yew trees, they failed
           | to remove the trees from the burlap bags so they were all
           | dead in two years.
           | 
           | A little ignorance goes a long a way.
        
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