I’ve been looking forward to seeing this project since I first heard it was coming to Austin. The “food not lawns” movement is another example of how we can find again for ourselves the fulfillment that comes from addressing our basic human needs with our own hands rather than chasing happiness through being consumers driven by media manufactured pseudo needs (growing delicious healthy food for your family, neighbors & friends beats having the lawn that most looks like Astroturf in your neighborhood).
& once again the answers comes down not to bigger better technology that will allow us to stay in the rat race, but rather to encouraging people to live with more understanding & more intimacy with their environment and with each other.

Green Right Now covers Fritz Haeg’s Attack on the Front Lawn :
http://www.greenrightnow.com/2008/03/01/attack-on-the-front-lawn-artfully-growing-food-in-austin/

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Garden Girl on March 1st, 2008 | File Under slow food, locavore | -