Lawns are the dumbest thing ever! They’re obsessively managed squares of an invasive species. And what’s the point of them? They don’t grow food. They don’t provide habitat. They’re just stupid green squares.

I recently bought a house (brag!), so I’ve been spending a lot of time finding ways to slowly kill off my lawn and replace it with native plants and veggies. It’s a personal action that I’m doing that makes me feel like I have a little more agency over the impeding biodiversity collapse happening all around us, and I think that if more people started to pull out their stupid green squares, we’d all be in a better place.

On this episode, my friend Kimmy climbs up on my anti-lawn soap box with me. We dive into the history of lawns to figure out how these stupid green squares even became a thing. Then we talk about how we can change our lawns for the better by turning them into little backyard ecosystems and mini-farms. There are a lot of changing cultural values in America, and lawn-culture changes from generation to generation. Maybe there’s hope that as more millennials start buy homes, more of these stupid green squares will turn into little ecological oases. That’s right, we further exacerbate the boomer vs. millennial divide…but I mean really, what the hell are boomers even thinking?!

So pour a drink and tune in. If you’re at a lawn, just slowly drink your whisky, stare angrily at it, then think about all the other things that space could be. Cheers to the death of stupid green square everywhere!