Feel hopeless about our planet? Here's how you can help solve a big problem right in your own backyard
May 07, 2023 05:41AM ● By Content Editor
Photo: Claudette Sims says she doesn't miss the lawn she naturalized at her home in Hamilton. She tries to ensure almost all of her plants are native, though she is all for including some favourite introduced — but not invasive — species. (Submitted by Claudette Sims)
By Darius Mahdavi - CBC News - May 5, 2023
By Darius Mahdavi - CBC News - May 5, 2023
It's easy to feel hopeless about climate change, to believe most solutions are out of your hands. But you can help fix one of the biggest environmental issues of our time, since it's probably growing right in your own yard: lawn grass.
Most Canadian yards are a sea of non-native, inedible turf grass. Not evolved for our climate, it requires intensive maintenance, watering and fertilizer inputs, and provides virtually no value to native species.
Yet this "eco-desert" is the largest irrigated crop in North America.
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