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   > "Instead of a manicured lawn and garden, Beth and Craig   
   > Sinclair planted 150 trees and other native plant species in   
   > front of their bungalow. The couple, who moved to Smiths Falls   
   > from Seattle about a decade ago, said natural lawns like theirs   
   > are common in their former city."   
   > https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/smith-falls-naturalized-   
   > lawn-yard-victory-bylaw-environment-ecology-wildlife-diversity-   
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   My first thought is "Yeah? And. . .?"   
      
   I would hope we have a sovereign right over our own property to plant   
   anything  not  inimical to others & not explicitly illegal by democratically   
   passed law  (e.g. opium poppies' as a cash crop).   
      
   I'm all about natural -- I'd love a 'yard' (if it's still such) that is a   
   patch of the kind of woods I grew up wandering around in -- A loose empty, but   
   for  trees(deciduous & evergreen together) both upright(live) & down(various   
   stages  of returning to the soil), ferns, & shrubs, under a thick canopy that   
   blocks  out the sun in the non-winter hours -- I loved hanging around in such,   
   picking  berries, pulling up licorice ferns off downed cedars, seeing various   
   signs of  wildlife.  I picked up a perfect sense of direction -- I could enter   
   the woods  at the top -- bop around all day, then pop out several miles down,   
   just where  my home's road began, to arrive home just in time for 5pm supper!    
   Half filled  with huckleberries & licorice -- giving me perfect digestion &   
   BMs all through  my childhood -- active, healthy natural fiber-rich diet.   
      
   Then I sank away from such &spent the next 120-20 years eating garbage,   
   lazing, smoking, drinking, et al, but my earlier foundation kept me going more   
   or less  healthy in spite of myself! (It definitely helped that my mom only   
   bought  organic healthy foods in the year I lived there until leaving home at   
   age 12,  to seek my fortune. (still looking, but doing mighty fine overall.)   
      
   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6   
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