How about a veggie and flower garden instead of a front lawn? What's wrong with a nice green lawn you may be wondering? As OPSEU introduces its plan to provide a sanctuary for native plants, this is one of the questions being asked.
- landscaping accounts for 20% - 50% of residential water use in the US
- the average lawn uses over 300 liters of water a day in the US
- there's an estimated 30 million acres of lawn in the US
Here's another video from California about edible gardens as a hedge against genetically modified foods.
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