We never "used" the front lawn for any sort of recreation. We didn't particularly like the way it looked. We want to grow and harvest and consume more home-grown food. Then we read Fritz Haegs's inspiring book: EDIBLE ESTATES: ATTACK ON THE FRONT LAWN
That is when we knew that there is a whole revolution of people tearing up the front lawns to grow food. We recommend that everyone buys and reads Fritz Haeg's book. Here is a touch of it:
"OUR PLANET : Most of us feel like we don't have any control over the direction in which our world is headed. As always, the newspapers are full of daily evidence for concern. Unlike the challenges of past generations, however, these struggles are no longer just localized or broadly regional, they are an interlaced web of planetary challenges. How, then, do we respond in the face of the impossible scale of the issues such as global energy production, climate change, and the related political aggressions and instabilities that accompany them? One of the things that we can do is act where we have influence, and in a capitalist society, that would be our private property. Here we have the freedom to create in some small measure the world in which we want to live."
We desperately want to be a part of this movement.
Here are some photos of the ground-breaking of our Victory Garden!!!! What could the world be like if we all grew food with the water that we use to keep the lawns green...
After we got all of the grass and shrubs out, we were left with this brown heap of tired dirt.
We will then mix in a truck load of compost and try to create the garden that Johnny and I designed before he left for Croatia. It will include plums, pomegranate, kumquat, strawberries, artichoke, peas and beans, lots of chard, amaranth, sunflowers, peach, nectarine, leeks, squash, peppers, and more....yippppeeeee
imagine!!!! 
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