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  • From: "Emily A. Noble" <guinep@theriver.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: (fwd) Re: NC law being proposed to make non-mowing of lawnsillegal; comments on demos in DC
  • Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:30:52 -0700


Oh, I wish you were kidding about that! Please tell me it's a hoax....or
some extremely silly city's local ordinance!!!!!!!!!!!!
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>From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>
>To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>Subject: (fwd) Re: NC law being proposed to make non-mowing of lawns
illegal; comments on demos in DC
>Date: Thu, Apr 20, 2000, 8:42 AM
>

>On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:54:13, in agriculture-activist "Ava Devenport"
><essenheal@iname.com> wrote:
>
>
>In Indiana, it is already against the law not to mow your lawn. You
>not
>only get fined, but the county comes in, mows everything down to
>practically dirt, then attaches a bill to your water and sewer, if you
>have
>a well and septic, the bill is attached to your property taxes.
>Either
>way, if you don't pay, they take your property!
>
>A friend of mine who lives on the very edge of the city limits planted
>her
>yard in medicinal herbs, as she is an herbalist. She even put birms
>around
>everything. Still, code enforcement came in, threatened her with
>fines and
>loss of property. She walked him through the paths, named each plant
>and
>identified the plants use, made no difference. They destroyed her
>property
>as she refused to remove the plants.
>
>Indiana once had many beautiful 'cottage gardens', they're all gone
>now due
>to this law. What a terrible shame we've decided beauty and necessity
>must
>be replaced with lawns of grass that actually have no beneficial use
>to
>society. It's no wonder we're losing wildlife, they have nowhere to
>go,
>nothing to eat or protect them.
>
>We have so much carbon monoxide in our atmosphere due to the fact that
>the
>'lungs of our earth' are being replaced with concrete and 'grass'.
>The air
>is already becoming toxic, as is the water. Soon we'll just have a
>dead
>planet with no survivors.
>
>I'll keep planting and feeding what I can, and try to get my
>neighbors,
>family and community to do the same. I hope I can make at least a
>small
>contribution to the future.
>
>Blessings,
>Ava
>
>
>Lawrence F. London, Jr. Venaura Farm ICQ#27930345
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