Description: Optimize health, love nature, embrace beauty
Cut grass is an outdated holdover from a time when yards were trimmed not by lawn mowers, but by grazing animals. As the population grows, larger and larger areas of our environment are filled with grass, and the chemicals and water required to maintain them. By doing this, we sustain a practice that is not only harmful to our environment, but also one that limits our ability to sustain healthy gut flora that keep us healthy. It’s time we let go of the tradition of cut grass and make way for the Meadow
On a recent trip to visit Rudyard Kipling’s Naulakha estate in Vermont, I strolled through winding paths that were mowed through wild growing grasses and flowers. Different flowers were abundant in different areas of the lawn. Some were abuzz with bees while others hosted the rustling sounds of the wind or crickets.
The peaceful experience inspired the realization that what we need in this country is a Meadow Movement . In other words, let the grass grow! Mowing the lawn is not as desirable or innocuous as it may seem.