CivicActions

WARNING: This blogpost has absolutely nothing to do with the World Wide Web. Now get off that chair and say hi to your neighbor.

One person who's been an inspiration to me in thinking about neighbors is Fritz Haeg. Fritz is an architect and artist whose recent book Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn documents his experiences collaborating with American families to transform their pristine green lawns into fertile vegetable gardens. In the past few years I have joined the ranks of the urban farmers. I now know who in my neighborhood prefers mustard greens over collards, who knows how to cook with bitter greens, and who's spent a good chunk of their life in the country. If you have a lawn, please grow food on it. It's so incredibly cool.