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Using friendship-based community organizing and principles of permaculture, gift economy, and mutual aid, Food Not Lawns has been turning yards into gardens and neighborhoods into communities since 1999, when we were conceived by the Food Not Bombs family in Eugene, Oregon. For more than twenty years small, self-organized groups of grassroots gardeners have been organizing local seed swaps, joining together for garden work parties, and making lots of friends while learning more about the simple act of growing food can radically improve your home, your community, and your life.

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 6 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Lawns are pernicious beasts that keep trying to take back the spaces we try to carve out for garden and food.

It’s worse than hedge bindweed and I don’t know what to do about it.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Raised beds and frequent plucking of undesired shoots.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The last raised bed, cardboard and fir chips underneath, filled last summer, was so tight with grass at the edges, when I tried to pull the grass out by the base a giant section of dirt 6 inches deep came with it. Roughly 1/6 the soil need replacing after that one pull.

There has to be a better way.

[–] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Pull the grass after a good rain. Not when it's the consistency of cement.

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