The problem with conventional lawns (and what could replace them)

Grist
By Claire Elise ThompsonNov 29, 2023, 11:07 am122 pts
The vision The cool blades of grass between my toes were prickly, little sticky, teeming with ladybugs. Growing up, my dad would mow the lawn every weekend in some Sisyphean jockeying for the top spot among neighborhood men. When people proclaimed their love for that cut-grass smell, I recoiled. “It’s a…

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