Edible Estates Attack on the Front Lawn is a movement for local sources of food production, to reduce the immense ecological footprints created in the transportation of food from the farm to the supermarket, for a healthier, more organic source that is regional and promotes the reduction of CO2 emissions with a thriving garden where the lawn used to be.
Sustainable techniques and solutions have been growing the more people get up the courage to actually take this market seriously, and producing regional food sources locally in the place of your garden is another eco-friendly alternative that presents itself as a trend.
If we exchange the traditional American lawn we inherited asa statement against the imperialistic control of mother England and as a statement to the abolishment of slavery, for a new statement against the onslaught of the greenhouse effect, we are choosing a noble cause, not forgetfulness.
The lawn should not be buried under a garden, a garden should be born of the lawn, and all those who gave their lives in the name of this countrys freedom, should be remembered always; in our own struggle to protect, what they died for…
Not everyone knows the reason America chooses to cultivate the lawn as part of its heritage in fighting slavery and imperialism of the feudal system, to most people the lawn is just the way they grew up.
The lawn was a statement the minute ex-slaves and the lower/middle classes began to do it themselves and the old Belle Air style plantations became defunct institutions of a time that needed to be rethought.
The lawn is our heritage, and our legacy to freedom and goodwill, now it is time that we transform it into a symbol of global salvation and sustainability for a future that is on its way to going ever-greener the more people take the path of courage our forefathers perished, believing in.
Edible Estates began on Independence day in 2005 with a regional prototype garden in Salina, Kansas and documents that transformation as well as the other three since then, from Lakewood, California to Maplewood, New Jersey to London, England.
This 128-page illustrated paperback, has a preface by Fritz Haeg and contributions from Diana Balmor, Rosalind Creasy, Michael Pollan, Lesley Stern, Michelle Christman, Stan Cox and Michael Foti, it was published by Metropolis Books in February of 2008, measuring 8.5 x 8.4 x 0.4 and it ships at 13.6 ounces.
