[Diana in Wisconsin]

I love it. The more people that tear up their lawns and plant food & herb gardens means more customers for me!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Lettuce and herbs can be grown for their beauty as well as for the practical use, as shown in this display at Olbrich Garden.

[cripplecreek]

Victory gardens.

[hinckley buzzard]

Why is America so in love with pristine, empty front lawns that isolate neighbor from neighbor, require dirty fuels to mow, harsh chemicals to prevent weeds and loads of water to keep green?

Because, they look really nice and relaxing and they make it easy to spot nitwit artiste a-holes who can't resist the urge to pester their neighbors over nothing.

[dfwgator]

Artist: Grow Food, Not Grass

He's obviously not a Libertarian. ;)

[Krankor]

To a lot of people, their lawn is a work of art.

[hinckley buzzard]

Haeg is a harsh critic of the expansive and perfectly manicured lawn. He sees it as a symbol of an idealized elitism that has encouraged Americans to separate themselves from each other, and from the natural world.

Projects like his Edible Estates.

C'm here Haeg. Eat this.

[djf]

MTD Turf King bump.

Took me about two hours yeaterday, but finaly got it running primo and tore up a bunch more of my yard.

Gotta get a bag or two of steer manure.

I’m going heavy duty into veggies this year, ain’t monkeying around...

[LibFreeOrDie]

I say let people who want lawns have lawns, and let people like me who want gardens instead of lawns to have them. I can’t stand nosy neighbors who dictate what I should grow.

[ventana]

Not a bad idea, but where I live, we are so overrun with dear, they’d eat everything in the yard! V’s wife.

[raybbr]

Hah! I couldn’t get a C of O for my house till the grass was planted.

[JoeProBono]

[wac3rd]

Because I can.

Repeat.

PS - My garden (veggie & fruit) is in the backyard.

[stripes1776]

Fritz, the reason for a lawn is because a well-kept green is beautiful. But since you are a contemporary artist, I would not expect you to know anything about beauty.

[G Larry]

Ha!
This in a society that has turned an endless number of “wants” into “needs”, to the extent nobody is home raising the kids, let alone cooking dinner!

[mplsconservative]

While we're not growing food in our front yard, we have dug up quite a bit of lawn to devote to flowers. I can't wait for spring as we jammed hundreds of tulip bulbs into this space last fall.

[ottbmare]

I suffer under the control of a community association that dictates how my front yard is kept. When I moved here, nearly 20 years ago, the community association was very weak and made little effort to control things; now they’re like storm troopers.

But they can’t control what’s in my back yard (or perhaps I should say, they can’t readily see what’s in my back yard, as long as the sides look nice). Last year I had a small vegetable garden. This year there will be a BIG one. The soil isn’t really amenable and the neighbors may complain about the smell of the horse and cow manure I’ll have to use to condition it; they may get me there.

[kcvl]

Fritz Haeg should really mind his own damn business!

http://tinyurl.com/dz9sea

http://tinyurl.com/brjqpg

Fritz Haeg is an architect and social designer.

[ViLaLuz]

Apparently this artiste isn’t aware of run-ins with home owners associations.

[RayChuang88]

Are you sure this isn’t an advertisement for Home Depot or Lowe’s? Planting a garden like that would require a lot of trips to these stores, that’s to be sure.

[neefer]

Mmm. Nothing beats homegrown veggies. It can get expensive if you buy everything. Link to frugal gardening forum.