A bit of an older article but better late than never

About the Webinar

In this webinar, author and activist Lorraine Johnson gets into the how: how to talk to neighbors who don’t get it yet, how to respond to HOA complaints or bylaw challenges, and how to build support in your community for the kind of garden that actually does something for the ecosystem. With three decades of writing and advocacy behind her, Lorraine has seen these conversations play out in every direction – and she’s full of practical, grounded advice for navigating them well.

Date:  Wednesday, July 22 

Time: 7:00 PM Eastern Time / 6 PM CT / 5 PM MT / 4 PM PT

Location: Online! A link to watch will be emailed to registrants and Less Lawn More Life Challenge participants.
Join via YouTube and participate in the live community chat with Lorraine and partners from the Less Lawn More Life Challenge.

Whether you’re preparing for a formal HOA review or just want to know what to say when someone asks why your yard looks like that, this session is for you.

(I'm not affiliated with Wild Ones but one of the Reddit mods is).

I'm not affiliated with Wild Ones other than thinking they're cool but they have several US cities worth of native garden design plans on their website!

Event Details

Title: Rethinking Horticulture with Real Ecology Presenter: Joey Santore Date: Wednesday, March 18 Time: 7 p.m. ET | 6 p.m. CT | 5 p.m. MT | 4 p.m. PT Format: YouTube Live premiere, link provided with registration Recording: A recording will be shared following the live event

Garden aesthetics and how we got here

This is actually her last (first) walk. Now she's doing a hike/kayaking adventure.

This main break destroyed an entire road and left about 2 dozen houses without water for 2 days. My destroyed I mean, it literally looked like an earth quake happened.

It's absolutely critical that we pay attention to and maintain our infrastructure. We spend a lot of time labor, and money repairing things that should be replaced and/or upgraded. That being said, this is a cast iron main from the 1920s and that was the first break in this section. That's pretty damn good.

I think we could do better planning our infrastructure especially water and sewer to extend the life and avoid a lot of loss.

Fun fact, water systems have to be monitored and leaks have to be found or you'll lose a lot and I mean a lot of water. This tiny crack was causing about a 20% water loss for this town. I can't remember off hand how many gallons a minute that was but I THINK it averaged out to around 600 gallons an hour.

We can do water conservation on an individual level but if we're not monitoring our systems, we're doing ourselves an insane disservice. We're wasting time, resources, chemicals and energy treating and testing water that's just being dumped.

This valve was replaced and their water loss went back down to 1.5% the following month. (That's really great and the lowest of all the towns I've worked with).

There's a fun water system info dump for you ;)

Guys, we finally have a wiki! It's definitely a work in progress! If you want the full wiki you can see the NoLawns Reddit Wiki.

A curated list by YardFarmer

This is hosted by wild ones.org (I have no affiliation I just like free things)

Event Details

“Living in the Liberated Landscape: My Yard” presented by Larry Weaner
Date: Thursday, November 20th, 2025
Time: 7 PM ET / 6 PM CT / 5 PM MT / 4 PM PT
Join Us Virtually: A link will be provided with registration. This webinar will be recorded and available to watch after the premiere. And join the Live Chat: During the webinar premiere, join the live text-based chat on YouTube Live. Connect with a knowledgeable, hands-on, and supportive community.

Via Wild Ones here's a list and images of wild bulbs for Eastern and Central US.

A few years ago I saw a post about permaculture from u/Suuperdad that inspired me to create this sub. I had no idea what it would turn into. Yesterday I got this lovely email about our website that in all honesty, I forgot existed. It was made during the great Reddit migration and has been kind of forgotten about until today.

Never in a million years did I expect an email like this or, my co-workers to know my subreddit or, my new significant other to lose his mind when he found out I started this sub. Even if you don't think you're going to change the world, you might. This is a reminder to fight for what you believe in, make positive changes in your life, and do what's right. Maybe it will have a snowball effect, maybe it won't. Either way you'll be changing your own life.

I want to make a special shout out to my amazing mod team over on Reddit who does amazing work not just in moderating but in contributing resources, setting up really cool things like the Doug Tallamay AMA and just overall being really great humans that I enjoy chatting with. I have an amazing mod team over on discord and here on Lemmy too that I can't thank enough for the hard work they put in and a special thanks to the host of Solar Punk for hosting the Lemmy instance we use.

This community exists because we all want to see a change in the world and we're doing it. Sincerely, thanks for being here with me everyone. I love this community so much!

Don't forget to check local for great resources on how to go the No Lawns route! Not everyone may have local resources but I was surprised to find out that my county has a natives program that has a guide on what and how to plant. Check your local city/county/State/provide/Etc to see if there's already some easy resources out there.

Guys, as the person who started no lawns on Reddit (and here) my yard is a disaster lol. I work outside all day and the last thing I want to do when I get home is yard work. That being said, I removed a bunch of invasives from my yard Monday and I'm working on a plan to tackle a corner of my yard the way I've always wanted to in NoLawns style with native plants. I'm always open to suggestions for the Chicago area!