Josh Clark

You keep it mowed, but at a higher height.

But, yeah, you just let this stuff grow and we would be completely we would stick out like a sore thumb from the rest of the neighborhood so much that our neighbors would be mad at us.

That's how entrenched the idea of having a perfect lawn is still in the United States, depending on where you live.

Yeah, for sure.

And like no one around there even does like permaculture and, you know, other options besides just letting it grow wild and crazy.

No, it's nuts.

So we definitely draw a line.

So we're like, okay, we'll keep up with the lawn, but don't touch the shrubbery, the perennials, the garden, essentially, right?

But people will hire the same company to treat their lawn with chemicals to spray their bushes and spray their gardens with chemicals to kill off the bugs.

And then they have to go in and try to recreate the stuff that the bugs are doing for free, the services they're providing, because you've killed off the bugs.

It's insane to me.

So we definitely don't cotton to that.

Yeah.

Speaking of bugs, there was a scientific review in 2019 that found that the global mass of insects is falling at a rate of about 2.5% per year.

And dandelions is high, high on the list of pollinators.

Caterpillars love munching on them.

Moths love munching on them.

And all those bees and butterflies love doing their thing on them.

So even, you know,

I'm not trying to shame people, but let's say you do like your lawn and everything, even waiting in the spring, like longer to cut it, even cutting it higher, letting the dandelions grow up a little bit before you start whacking them down.