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Ep. 177 Why do we still have lawns and what to do about them?
Andy James, founder of Prairie Fire Restoration, quickly became a gentleman we greatly enjoyed. Join us as we discuss the largest mono-crop in the United States... lawns.
hokseynativeseeds.com (for larger prairie areas and CRP)
theprairiefarm.com (to turn your lawn into a prairie or pollinator patch)
Here are a few of the many studies he quoted in the podcast.
Pet population increase from inital Kentucky study.
19 MILLION POUNDS anually in the 2018 study
Our concept of the traditional lawn comes from Medieval Europe
Counter intuitive results from lawn fertilization, much of the issue is over…
The skinny
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