It’s a stupid reason. Historically, if you were a peasant and had been granted access to land, you grew food or herbs. If however you were a lord, you got your food from your peasants. You had no need to grow your own food. So they could afford to grow lawns as a sign of wealth.
This has transferred across into the modern psyche. Lawns are a way of saying “i’m so rich, i don’t have to worry about sustenance. In fact i’ll throw money at it to maintain this slab of green rather than have it provide food, or shade.”
This is the correct answer. So many US’isms are bourgeois / aristocratic imitation.
Cars / wasteful transportation, lawns, sprawled out cities, high amounts of meat consumption, vacation homes / timeshares / exotic vacations, having servants, etc. These are things that are only possible for countries with huge amounts of land and resources, and not sustainable or doable for most of the world.
Probably against HOA rules in many places.
Ok, but why?
I mean some of us hate grass so much we started a huge reddit community about it that made it’s way too lemmy.
There is a pretty great website called Falling fruit to map trees and other plants that you can pick from freely.
I checked out my closest two locations on there. They were both dumpsters… “Best to come after midnight”.
Not what I was expecting…
Yeah they do add dumpsters from shops that throw good to eat food. I know some people that lived in Danemark for a year and basically only ate food from dumpsters…
Maybe you could add some close to you?
Hey. Thank you for sharing this.
Websites like this are the good part of the internet.
You’re welcome 😊😘🤗
Because having a big yard of grass that you have to mow every week while using up gasoline is the American dream and a flex for some reason.
Don’t forget about the expensive chemical treatments to maintain it so the local groundwater can become contaminated …
