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  • From: paul wheaton <paul@richsoil.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] natives AND permactulture
  • Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 10:33:43 -0600

Ah yes, the ole "look! I've made nature my personal bitch!" look.
Sometimes legally required.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:20 AM, tanya <tanyagarden@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:52 AM, paul wheaton <paul@richsoil.com> wrote:
>
>> People have had their personal property sprayed and then forced to pay
>> the bill.  By weed boards.  In the name of pro-native/anti-invasive.
>>
>>
> I know people who grow natives in their front yards and have had the
> neighbors complain about the "weeds" because the plants don't look manicured
> and poodled. Maybe it's California, as someone pointed out, or suburbia, but
> the conflict I see has more to do with tolerance for wildness vs.
> intolerance of anything but the most stringently mowed clipped monocultured
> look.
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