Why You Should Turn Your Lawn Into a Food Garden | One Small Step | NowThis

Americans use roughly 7 billion gallons of water a day to irrigate lawns making lawns the single largest irrigated crop in the country. What if instead of well-kept grass, we used our time and resources to fill our lawns with fruit and vegetables?
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The perfect lawn is an American past time. We love our lawns so much that they take up more than 63,000 square miles in the U.S., which is roughly the size of Florida! We water, we fertilize, we renovate, working tirelessly to ensure our lawns are well-kept monocultures.
But what if we used those resources to grow food gardens instead? Filling our front lawns with food is nothing new. During WWI and WWII, Americans grew Victory Gardens (which just meant growing their own fruits and veggies on their front lawns) as part of the war effort--eventually, there were an estimated 20 million Victory Gardens in the U.S. producing 40% of all the fresh produce consumed in the country.
Growing your own fruits and vegetables can help fight climate change by reducing your carbon footprint because with a garden in your yard, zero gas needs to be burned transporting the food to your plate. Not to mention a little extra green space in cities can reduce overall temperatures and capture lots of rain water which could help reduce flooding.
On this episode of One Small Step, Lucy is traveling to Florida to learn more about converting our lawns into more sustainable food gardens
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[@Extravidrigt]

Only in America is a basic vegetable patch a revolutionary idea

[@82Brightstar]

Many people have vegetable garden in their backyard! It just shouldn’t be all over the front yard

[@AllNaturalJamaican]

Lol. You're right

[@hbl6304]

82Brightstar why shouldn’t it be

[@CensoredByYouTube965]

@@82Brightstar It should be anyplace one can. Why should one be forced to keep their yard pretty with a lawn while it can be kept (even more) pretty with food? I understand it could become a put off if a homeowner doesn't keep it up. But in that case, they can be forced to clean it up or have it removed. Everyone shouldn't suffer because some people are lazy. I've seen plenty of lawns that were unattractive that the city does nothing about. But god forbid someone have a garden where others might see it. Besides, the real reasons some cities have outlawed front yard gardens is that they want people to continue to buy the poison at the store. More room to grow equates to less sells of their poison.

[@mra6308]

you ain't wrong 😂

[@RuilinLinRyan]

Not gonna lie, I've watched a lot of videos where I did nothing afterwards but this is actually something I want to do

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Ruilin Lin plant on!

[@cultureboo4740]

I think I’m gonna be one of them today actually

[@1808Tessa]

Update?

[@bluefernlove]

You won't regret it. My tiny lawn is now a lush jungle-forrest that includes my own avocados. They grow on raised brick beds. No pesticides, not even fertilizer, all organic composting. Every good pollinator you can imagine thrives in there. And the best part is, I don't have to water it, because the shade of the trees protects the smaller plants and the leaves create a mulch barrier that keeps in moisture. Best decision ever. EVER.

[@thatlittlehuman9238]

You should! I started my first garden this summer and it’s not as hard as it looks 😁 planting the seeds and starting out requires the most effort if anything. After that it was a breeze.

[@LITTLEMUSTANGFILLY]

This really is a far more reasonable idea. If you're gonna put effort into growing something on your property it might as well be something that actually feeds you.

[@jessstuart7495]

I'm going to buy a dairy cow to eat all my grass!

[@CensoredByYouTube965]

@@jessstuart7495 Cardboard & mulch is a lot cheaper and less work.

[@Isomoar]

& then swap & trade the cool stuff you make, bake & grow with your neighbours.

[@vIBEDoUT-Channel]

The thing is it's NOT DIFFICULT IT'S HEALTHIER AND CHEAPER 😃

[@rachelsbusy9948]

People had to fight to be ALLOWED to grow their own FOOD?!?!?! 😱 Crazy government.

[@82Brightstar]

Well that’s what you get in a civilized society! & that’s what the back yard is for For me, if I don’t live in a rural area, I don’t want everyone having a vegetable garden on their front yard! That will look too weird IF I wanted to live like that, I would live on the farm areas!

[@Theorimlig]

@@82Brightstar None of your neighbours should have to care what you think about their garden.

[@jossuegarcia1488]

82Brightstar oof that’s just sad. I’m gonna say your an old person.

[@Isomoar]

@@82Brightstar I thought America was about freedom? Apparently only your freedom huh?

[@jossuegarcia1488]

Carpe Noctem honestly. And I live here.

[@dryatish2102]

They had to fight to grow on there own land... Like WWTTFF

[@victoriapowers576]

spread the knowledge save the nature Yeah I did not know that either

[@walterbrunswick]

America, land of the free, you say?

[@lucylyonsbiggers]

ya its pretty crazy people aren't allowed to do what they want with their property. glad its changing

[@naufrage0]

Its also illegal to collect rain water to reuse. This country is so backwards.

[@AnthonyAllenJr]

Welcome to the home owners association, lol. I can't imagine my HOA allowing us to grow a garden as our front lawn.

[@bennyrodrigz]

First I made a joke about it but my family has been doing this for years, finished watching the video and it changed my mind. Honestly everyone should...things are too expensive now a days, grow your food

[@KeikoMushi]

You can also grow varieties that aren't in the supermarket. It can also reduce the need for storage at certain times of the year when you can just harvest as you need it.

[@cautious1343]

And the store bought food is laden with chemicals and picked green so the nutrients aren't developed yet.

[@jasonludwig2488]

Let the growing... begin! First step... Ban HOAs.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Word! 🙌

[@userunknownx]

I bought a house. The builders said the only restriction the HOA had was no split rail fence. We moved in got a huge book filled with restrictions, including the backyard vegetable garden I wanted.

[@userunknownx]

I no longer live in a HOA. I grow fruit and vegetables in my yard, and provide habitat for wildlife.

[@piedpiper7051]

I love having an HOA. I just believe that well kept gardens in the front should be allowed. Period.

[@GREENLALI]

You meant the government home mafias.🤬

[@makerhappy6718]

I may live in an apartment but I do grow all my tomatoes in my window

[@lucylyonsbiggers]

thats awesome!

[@alyssanguyen9632]

I have a pepper that produced more than 3,000 peppers and it’s still producing

[@KeikoMushi]

One of the things that folks seem to have missed as they watched this video, is the vast amount of customisation you can do with a food garden. This is clearly shown with how Chloe Destine is approaching her own garden. She's making that space her own, considering what sort of food she wants to eat, the unique topography of her property and other factors. I'd recommend folks look into permaculture, which Rob Greenfield seems to be using many of the principles of with his own living space. He has a humanure system, collects rainwater, keeps a root cellar, etc... all with the goals of reducing waste, costs and living more simply. An interesting fellow, to say the least, but he isn't the only person that has made similar moves. I would also point to the Tiny House movement, urban gardens, guerilla gardening, etc... as drastic changes with a huge impact on those that utilise many of the principles.

[@somdhomestead9031]

I've never watered my lawn, it's a waste of water. Never added fertilizer or weed control or pesticide, again a waste. I have probaly acre or more of lawn, it's green with grass and whatever grows, looks good mowed. Lawns do help in CO2 sequesteration. I have a large garden as well. I Whole Heartedly support any one that can get a law changed that allows for food growing on your own property without governmental, HOA's etc. interference.

[@nitink.a567]

If you are not planning to use empty space can I use it? 😝😂

[@throughmykitchenwindow198]

Yes !! I wish my entire property was a garden.. don't forget to plant your flowers that promote Pollinators to visit !

[@tarabooartarmy3654]

I will never understand what makes any human being think they have the right to tell another human being what to do with the property THEY are paying for. Unless I’m doing something that genuinely puts you or your family in danger, you have ZERO right to tell me what to do with MY property. Unless you wanna pay my rent/mortgage/utilities, then by all means, tell me what I can do with it. That’s why I could never live in a neighborhood with a HOA. If other people want to do that, I have no problem with it. I certainly wouldn’t. Every time I drive through a neighborhood with a HOA I get Stepford Wives vibes. And municipalities that ban front yard gardening? WTF? It should be part of the constitution that every human being has the right to feed themselves from their property. I mean, I can understand not allowing cows in urban neighborhoods. Not only would that be bad for the residents, but the cows, too. But gardens? GARDENS? 🙄🙄

[@shxb9194]

I think they ban frontyard gardening so they gain money from taxes provided to them by shipping cost of fruits and vegetables. By growing your own food you are not only buying food yourself but providing them to your neighbors or freinds so it cuts their supply of taxes

[@SAMMIsLIFE]

How do u know if a certain neighborhood has an HOA? Hope mine doesn't lol

[@tarabooartarmy3654]

SAMMIsLIFE They’ll make you sign paperwork when you buy a house in a neighborhood with an HOA. If you rent, the landlord usually has to get you to sign paperwork, too. It’s usually part of their contract with the HOA that if they rent it out, they have to get you to sign agreeing to be bound by the same rules. If you never had to sign anything, you’re almost certainly not in a neighborhood that has one. I’ve only rented in a neighborhood with an HOA once, and I’ll never do it again. I got chewed out for having one very small potted cherry tomato plant on my front landing. It was barely visible from the road and it looked nice. There wasn’t enough sun in the back, and I explained that to them, but they made me get rid of it anyway. I was furious and moved out as soon as I could. Never again. When I moved in, I had no idea the kind of stranglehold HOAs have over residents. Boy was that a rude awakening.

[@cautious1343]

Well said TaraBoo: The people who are the cabal of ruler wannabe's are the descendants of the first kings. Most of whom are kinda ugly due to inner breeding as they tried to keep their bloodlines pure. Anyway .. They are born and suckled with a sense of superiority, and in a lot of ways they are. Their education is different from ours. They study sacred geometry and true history, Occult science and Magick. And they know all about the cycles, and harmonies, of the solar system and the earth. They own all the major banks so they control us through money. The own and control all of mainstream media, and all the big corporations which in turn own the smaller ones. They are sick, and their sickness has spread all the way down into city councils of small towns. If you want to know who they are I can put you on the path, but if you do you'll need to brace yourself. The further you look into them, the more you will get angry and disgusted.

[@zacnieprawisz9171]

@@shxb9194 the taxes are not going to HOA, do they? this is not some government illuminati conspiracy, it is just about people being stuck up and wanting their neighbours to have the same lame lawns

[@01arthi]

This is something pretty much every Indian family does if they have lawn. Its funny how these old ideas get adopted by westerners and it becomes this great innovation or discovery. Must say what westerners are good at is their marketing or advertising skills, not really ideas. While sadly old cultures like India look at western cultures and get influenced. I highly appreciate what this guy has been doing and the purpose of the video, not taking the credit away. Just a thought that we need connect to out cultures and retain the goods from it while leaving bads behind.

[@LITTLEMUSTANGFILLY]

This use to be something that was common in America. My grandparents still do this. I don't know what society was thinking giving this up.

[@liamm8447]

It’s common in America to have a small garden in you back yard but this video is mostly talking about putting a garden in your front yard as most cities make you have a perfect green lawn

[@RalphAnthonyCBasco]

Always had been the case in Philippines, too. Same for the rest of Asia.

[@axelschultz9550]

Gardens being for vegetables and herbs where a fact of life in Europe for most of history. Lawns being big grass fields was something only used in castles so no one would be able to approach without being seen. Then rich people in general started having lawns to show that they have money (I have so much money I can just have a piece of land with no productive use). Of course everyone wants to cope the rich people so lawns then became more and more popular until most had ditched there gardens for lawns.

[@janekof]

My dad has a food garden in the back and flower garden in the front. It's a tad bit difficult because we live in a place with seasonal change (legit four seasons), and the fact that he just can't give up on the idea of growing a banana tree lol. But we have a potted lemon tree that was just a hassle bringing inside during the fall and outside during the spring until 5 years ago it started growing actual lemons! With a little love and some dedication anything is possible

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Rob Greenfield is doing awesome work! I love how he’s inspiring and teaching people about food! 🙌

[@lucylyonsbiggers]

Youre doing amazing work too!

[@reXdownhamOG]

I have been saying this since the early 70s. Lawns here in south Florida are very wasteful. If we took all of the resource we invest in our lawns and invested it in big gardens of herbs, flowers, fruits and vegetables, we would be making a really positive change in our environment. Unfortunately I live in a condo where we can't hang our laundry in the sun. We use big commercial electric dryers for our laundry, even in July. I applaud all of you for taking steps to stop this type of insanity.

[@carole.strain8306]

This is illegal in some places. I love the idea.

[@fenrirgg]

In almost all places in the western world Human Rights are above every local law. So check it out starting from Article 20: [...] (2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association. So, it's illegal to not let you grow food in your garden.

[@littlegirlhomegarden2022]

I have anxiety disorder and gardening help me to heal .. there’s no better than gardening ! 😁

[@ellenkuang8853]

I have anxiety too. My boyfriend judges me for sitting on the floor at our French doors to the balcony when I eat breakfast. But it's so peaceful looking out at my balcony forest and seeing everything grow.

[@littlegirlhomegarden2022]

Ellen Kuang Yes , at least gardening helps us turn our mind to positive things, rather than having to look for escape in negative things 😊..

[@IMSiegfried]

@@ellenkuang8853 he shouldn't judge you.

[@AlmightyKennith]

See this isnsomething my grandparents do on their yard and to be honest the lawn that we know of today is just a flex done by rich people

[@scottiemanners]

The rich aristocrats in France invented the manicured lawn way back several hundreds of years ago, lawns arent new but for the rich. Westerners adopted them to show class

[@ibawanhunlytan8606]

Lucy Biggers is such a cool and inspiring person ..

[@lucylyonsbiggers]

Thank you ;)

[@smariegalski3641]

I agree. Great host.

[@ameisherry]

My garden did make me more calm It’s like my happy place now I can’t live one day without going inside my garden love it so much

[@juliaherbet2063]

I'm surprised you are learning this now. Go to Africa urban areas. They use their gardens to grow fresh vegetables, avocados, mangoes and other fruits. And they're all organic products. I love their perennial vegetables they taste so good. Try it. I do grow my own kale, spinach,etc. I love summer time

[@jaridkeen123]

Everyone should grow some or all of the food your family needs for the year. Each person eats about $150 / $200 per month per person. So a Family of Four could save $7,200 a year!

[@thishappycrafter272]

Intriguing!!!

[@zacnieprawisz9171]

not really since you still has to invest in tools, dewormers, fertilizers, not to mention lots of time still gardening is an useful hobby indeed

[@silentbliss7666]

Being self sustainability is so crucial. Not only one can grown organic food, wild life has a place to thrive and proliferate.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

I have always supported this idea, we have seen them pop up all over Vancouver and Victoria for the last 15-20 years. Not as much as there should be though. A few that I have seen have gone beyond simply making a garden patch out of your lawn. While cool, not very aesthetically pleasing. Some of the ones I wish to emulate are fully landscaped with a flow and design that rivals an ornamental space. That's what I would strive to emulate, rather than a giant square patch of veggie rows.

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

I feel exactly the same way! I've always got my eyes open for vegetables with a decorative flair, like red okra, red malabar spinach, and red noodle beans (maybe everything decorative is actually just red 😅). I also bought a packet of Martian Jewels corn to plant next summer -- the stalks and husks are a dark red color, giving it a look similar to black bamboo -- and this fall I've just learned there are varieties of faba beans and buckwheat that bloom red/pink. I don't actually know anything about arranging decorative flower beds, but I'm sure in between all these brightly colored vegetables (including red lettuces and cabbages, can't forget them), and all the different beautiful textures of even normal vegetables -- ferny fennel and asparagus, big-leafed horseradish, squash, and chard, deep green pepper leaves, silvery tendrily peas -- sprinkled together with mounds of herbs and flowers and decorative trellises for any vining plants . . . really I don't see why anyone couldn't make a vegetable garden as decorative as a lot of regular flowerbeds. (Just remembered sunchokes. Those at least aren't red ^-^ ) But yeah, even if I search for images of decorative vegetable gardens pretty much all I find is cleanly organized rows like a conventional vegetable garden. It's like there's such a strong division between food and decoration in our minds that people aren't even really trying to do anything interesting.

[@raydow3439]

I am so glad young people are rediscovering this. I have canned 50+ jars of food from my garden this year.

[@GREENLALI]

The government disagrees with people being independent on food. They want you to depend on supermarkets for tax benefits.

[@starbai410]

You don't get taxed on food though, unless it's cooked.

[@dacebruz2626]

The only food tax is pre made food

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@dacebruz2626 And in North America, what type of food sold in grocery stores is the overwhelmingly most popular? Hint, its the kind that's taxed.

[@alexandrias.1014]

touge410 _ Several states in the US tax food, including IL, where I live. I don’t think a simple necessity should be taxed but 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@SydneyScream]

THEY WANT OUR MONEY GOING TO SUPERMARKETS YOU MEAN since food isn't taxed

[@palletwoodstuffjuanfuentes8081]

Like when youre stressed at work or whatever and you just wanna get home. To your vegetable garden because you know those little things know that they only have you to protect them .yeah. Growing vegetables at home is one of the best therapies anywhere in this world

[@npeace312]

I planted flowers to attract bees and butterflies and it is so calming! I love going out to pull weeds now!

[@lucylyonsbiggers]

My garden is such a peaceful place for me too

[@nitink.a567]

You need to place a bee box then..

[@katiehemstreet8939]

We bought our first house in 2020 and I'm building my food forest! I've planted 11 fruit trees, grape vines, and berry bushes! I also put in some garden beds for veggies, but I need more. It's so rewarding to grow your own food. I hope to do gardening classes for my neighborhood too one day. 😁

[@lawrencelawrence3920]

I have been doing this for years. There are so many advantages to growing a garden instead of a lawn. You eat what you grow, you know if you used herbicides and pesticides, (you don't have to.) Less watering and you have a green front yard when others lawn is brown. The food is fresher, more delicious, nutritious and you become proud of what you grew. It's a great teaching tool for kids, kids love to learn about growing food and eating fresh garden food. It's a great place to relax and relieve stress after a hard day at work. You get bragging rights over your neighbour's who may follow in your footsteps. You save money in the long run.

[@Neonravekid]

Not only does it save money, but it's super rewarding. I started a garden this year as did my boyfriend. Seeing the little sprouts come up and then watching them grow into full plants it really exciting.

[@vir822]

I love ur voice and genuineness...

[@redsoxs5870]

Viral Patel really. I feel she over reacts to a lot of things. Wow that’s so cool, (pulls a carrot out the ground) as if she didn’t know that carrots grow in the ground. I mean the whole growing things in a front yard is pretty cool as a whole but carrots growing in the ground isn’t unknown knowledge.

[@goatgal7884]

@@redsoxs5870Yea, I agree.She wants to preach about having a garden...but obviously doesn't have one herself.

[@lucylyonsbiggers]

@@goatgal7884 I just started my first garden this year ! And it truly amazes me everyday haha

[@lucylyonsbiggers]

@@redsoxs5870 true its common knowledge, but its SO COOL!!

[@redsoxs5870]

Lucy Biggers yea maybe, however the reaction was a little over the top. I mean you’ve never seen a carrot pulled out of the ground. Clearly this was for tv.

[@antoniofrajha8629]

Funny I watched his videos before. Then I come across this.

[@jessstuart7495]

My backyard only gets about 8 hours of sunlight in the summer due to nearby houses and trees. A front yard garden was about my only practical option for homegrown tomatoes. I also planted some grape vines, and last year was the first year we got a good production of grapes (3rd year). I amended the soil with peat-moss, but it wasn't enough. Next year I'm going to make some raised beds and put A LOT of manure in them to amend our alkaline clay soil.

[@MartinA-kp8xg]

It's well worth the effort start small if it all seems to much, they if you like it learn and grow. So rewarding, and very healthy food.

[@liamm8447]

I have a lawn but I don’t water it or fertilize it and I have a few gardens, I have a lot of flower gardens and one food garden.

[@plant.hacks.4.ur.environment]

If you put fruit trees you can also get shade, especially if you live in a very sunny place, this will be great. Ive been doing this similarly since 2016 and its so much better eating foods from backyard than from the store

[@rameshdubey7077]

My suggestion would be to have a small front yard for decorative flowers n plants & a backyard for veggies etc.

[@82Brightstar]

👍👍 Some of us don’t want to live in a neighborhood where everyone’s front lawn is a vegetable patch 😂

[@IMSiegfried]

@@82Brightstar water is already scarce & it's only getting worse. pollution's also a problem, times are changing.

[@jozsinusa]

Start with sunflowers (Mammoth sunflower). Super easy and you get to eat a bunch of sunflower seeds once they dry out. You'll feel very accomplished with yourself when you see the huge flowers you grew from the tiny seed you planted.

[@82Brightstar]

I just love planting sunflowers because they’re sooooo beautiful 😂

[@champagnegardening5182]

I can't wait to buy a home so I can grow more. Excited for my little container garden for now

[@apoorvagupta742]

This lady makes so much sense to me.

[@johnjude2685]

Paul James taught this 20 years ago. And ok reteaching anything good. Thanks for showing

[@hiteshjambhale2541]

*Great initiative indeed* ! Those who wanna start growing foods in their front yards can use following strategy! Start growing something in smaller quantities at the edge of your lawn. This will no harm aesthetics of your garden but will provide border to your garden. Start with smaller and easier to grow trees. Tomatoes, eggplants, Peppers and green veggies.... All you can to do is clear 1 to 1.5 feet of your lawn along edge. Mix some natural fertiliser in the soil .... Plant some seedlings ... Water it everyday and a lil maintainance will give you self-grown food to eat.

[@blanckieification]

👍free gym, free therapy and growing your own (healthy) is like printing your own money

[@Android.fungame]

I always love ideas and videos on growing your own food, since i try living a frugal live now

[@jaynguyen1573]

3:50 "There's all sorts of things we can munch on 😏"

[@JustinR82]

Simply amazing. Makes me want to make a huge change.

[@AllNaturalJamaican]

This is a way of life in many parts of Jamaica. My entire yard is a garden

[@IMSiegfried]

sweet!

[@GoalGuys]

Such a great video! Great content and a great message.

[@rhasani4372]

Rob has done such a wonderful job. Been on his trail for a view months

[@vyvienvp3413]

Inspirational guys ! Am already planning my veggie patch for next Spring xx

[@francie862]

I need to do this😊 PERIODTTT

[@rodjhonnavales968]

Just a new subscriber but already watched more than 10 of your videos. I love your passion and I hope more people like you will have the same passion not just in your country and here in Philippines but in the whole wide world.

[@kellyjohnson3617]

My mom lives in an HOA. She has a tiny front yard and no back yard but a common lawn that she is not allowed to touch. So she has a small flower garden in her front yard and in pots along her driveway and front and back porch in pots. The HOA complains because her house looks different from everyone else. But her front porch is beautiful. And among her flowers she has fruits and vegetables. She has chard, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, strawberries, blueberries, etc. And she has her own compost bin on her back porch. It’s what she uses to fertilize her entire garden. She is the original recycler. Our entire family of five took a year to fill one trash can to go to the dump.

[@jakes8409]

it looks so pretty as well :D

[@chrish9155]

Exactly! Great smart video

[@alonzomartii]

I love Lucy's show.

[@emberszz5199]

amazing!!!

[@carolynsteele5116]

Such a better use of our property. It's crazy that not only do we pay to put in a lawn, then spend big bucks on fertilizers and herbicides...but then we put all the clippings(and leaves from our non food-producing trees) into the landfill!

[@lyndaschroeder8117]

Lucy, you are doing wooooderful things. You are perfect for what you are doing!!!! Thank you sooooo much.!! NIce chat with Greta. You two are angels!!!

[@bonbonsews9327]

this was my yard as a child in 70' s in the middle midwest suburbs. very embarrassing at the time but cool memory

[@halliegrace6395]

I love one small step and I think it would be cool to see her reflection on one of these topics and the changes she’s made

[@justaddmusclecom]

Lawns and pesticides from lawns and big sugar have destroyed our entire waterway's here in SW Florida.

[@SuperReaks]

Awesome, can't wait for more video

[@lyndaschroeder8117]

Wonderfull and helpful. Thank you!!!

[@jager3418]

I started one this year inspired by James Prigioni. Glad I saw his videos before this one. I don’t know if I would have started one after watching this. If you’re on the fence about it watch James’ guide on how to do it .

[@lyndaschroeder8117]

Great great Lucy!,,,,,thank you so much. Go girl. You and Greta are amazing !!!!!!

[@1aliveandwell]

Have a few large pots on patio that planted some seed from great tasting foods like Avocado(seedling didnt make it thru the 95' weather in Janurary), Peach that grew 17 peaches 2nd year, arugula....Our front yard is mostly native. Used to have a small lawn8'x8' for children to play/picnic/sleep on. Recall in high school reading a book about someone who mowed his lawn then experimented with ways to make it edible, dry>powder>as flour in pancakes(his family wasnt use to green pancakes. He saved water from his rain runnoff from roof...

[@anna.canada.toronto]

Amazing!!!

[@rjweiss1]

I’ve always thought why not do this for roadway medians too

[@TheSare423]

Woot! I turned my front yard (and back) into a garden a year and a half ago! It was nothing but dirt (I refused to water a lawn in AZ) and now it looks like a jungle! Lol!

[@SmallGardenQuest]

I also decided to turn my lawn in to a garden :)

[@aquahydroman7623]

This is the future, great for the environment.

[@sallyhenry1716]

What an AWESOME and INSPIRING video!👩‍🌾

[@blanckieification]

I havn't found it yet to grow most fruittrees(apples, pears, grapes...)what is easy from the shop are tomatoes and pumpkins.

[@tonyachapman8261]

AWESOME!!!💖💖💖💖

[@brazilian-lady9175]

This a great video! Great information! I am going to share.

[@Edzhjus]

Useful idea. 🌱

[@NicholasLittlejohn]

Go for it! 🌱

[@Reorks911]

Love it

[@kentrobinson7479]

Better check with *HOA...CITY...COUNTY...ZONING* for a front yard

[@kassimjaimin1081]

Bagus idea ni

[@user-nn2mu7yy4r]

In Russia, we have country houses (we call them dachas), and every year in the spring and summer, most people grow fruits and vegetables, such as apples, plums, potatoes, carrots, cucumber, tomatoes, green lettuce, etc.ln the fall, people save their crops until winter and most often them preserve vegetables and fruits, and who can put them in the cellar, where they can remain until spring.

[@beth8775]

Absolutely - FoodNotLawns

[@miracleshappen4483]

This is great! 🌞👍🤗

[@shean7890]

Excellent ideas , we should have every front yard and back yard and side yard everywhere in America being full of fruits trees and shrubs and veggies and legumes nuts and seeds .

[@82Brightstar]

NObody cares what you do in your backyard But if that’s what you want to do on your front lawn, then go live on a farm! Some of us don’t want to live in the city or suburbs & have everyone turn their front lawn into a garden!

[@brokkoliomg6103]

I know this may sound like me being a weirdo but I just gotta say that you're an amazing young woman, you look beautiful and your enthusiasm is gorgeous! Keep it up Lucy^^

[@Free-bt6gn]

OMG! Most people I know have a garden, it's a way of life. Supermarket veggies never measure up, especially tomatoes.

[@kamilfrancoolczak]

Grass cuttings are good for your compost heap - just untreated

[@andreabowersox6318]

Does Rob have an online gardening class? I'd love some of his tips on gardening!

[@fajarulinnuha6796]

the way he spoke at 5:00 was like a wildlings... in a good way

[@TurtleTimeVoiceOvers]

This was such a cool video! I wish we didn’t get full on winter where I live. Plus I don’t own my yard, the HOA does. I’d love to grow some fruit.

[@dacebruz2626]

MyQueenFreddieMercury Cherry tree are a good hidden tree. Pretty blossoms.

[@TurtleTimeVoiceOvers]

See Bruz Are they easy to grow? We do have them in Colorado but I’ve mostly seen them on public properties.

[@dacebruz2626]

MyQueenFreddieMercury Yes they are easy, and Very low maintenance compared to other fruit trees

[@dacebruz2626]

Blueberry bush is there another good one that look ornamental. They come in a lot of different sizes

[@SAEEDALYAFEY]

If lawns disappear...then where would America go?

[@genieglasslamp5028]

Do you know what a park is?

[@Shetasen]

Do you know what victory gardens are?

[@genieglasslamp5028]

r/woosh myself

[@stars.4960]

Starting a backyard garden 🙃

[@PRTTYBTTRFLY1]

Yummy!

[@benleatha1509]

I am just commenting to help the channel out!!!

[@fennwenn3317]

Another option to do as well or instead of a food garden; grow native plants. HOA might have a fit, but it'll help your local wildlife.

[@ethans6.0]

nice

[@alexanderalexander9759]

thank god someone said it