Well why would I want a boring grass mono culture yard?

This is basically how no lawns started. Over on Reddit just over 5 years ago I started no lawns after having a fun conversation with u/suuperdad about changing the boring grass lawn into some thing more native and better for the environment. On a whim I created a subreddit for it and we started with a hand full of people and now we’re pretty good sized!

With the reddit blackout on, we realized this community needed to be bigger than Reddit. We already started a discord and we have an Instagram (although I’m terrible at updating it) we wanted to reach even more spaces.

I found slrpnk on accident but, it seemed to really fit with our theme and here we are!

We’re anti monoculture, pro natives plants and we love a non traditional yard.

  • fen@slrpnk.netEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    thank you for moving over! i was checking which subs were continuing the blackout over on reddit & the nastiness and misguided anger towards you & your post is disgusting. i hope it hasn’t affected you too much & that this community will remain civil and welcoming as it grows to that scale

    • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Thanks! After I locked the comments I got quite a few people who thanked me for participating. Guess the crazies just tell the loudest haha. Although the poll we decided to make does seem to be favoring not continuing the protest :(

      • glacials@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Eh that poll was always going to go that way due to selection bias. Folks who would vote to keep it shut down didn’t even see the initial post, because they’re the same folks boycotting Reddit.

          • glacials@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Take all the break you need for sure! But honestly time won’t help much with selection bias. More people will vote sure, but those more people still probably only found the vote because they came back to Reddit and therefore wouldn’t be of the mind to continue the shutdown.

      • fen@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        its sad to see but kind of expected for reddit users; a few days of personal ‘struggle’ would feel like more of an injustice than corporate greed. it’s a uniquely cultish user base imo

  • ElanoidesWahl@slrpnk.netEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Thanks for starting this community! I’ve been mulling over ways to go about doing this in my yard and would love any pointers on where to start!

    • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I was working on a beginners guide but, life happens. Or I guess, death in this case. Life has been complete chaos for about 8 months now so maybe I’ll get back to it soon.

  • dominoko@vlemmy.netEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’m glad you restarted the community here. I used to post on Reddit under a different name. I had posted a step by step on prepping a site by desodding as well as other advice.

    I hope to start taking photos of my own yard to share and contribute to the site.

      • dominoko@vlemmy.netEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        My most recent account is: u/valerisii

        I have a history of purging my data so the posts might be gone but I hope they still exist. There’s a chance I still have the photos and if so, I could always recreate the how-to

        • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
          0·
          2 years ago

          Damn I’m not finding it, do you remember the title by chance? I think I remember seeing it when you posted but I’ve seen a few good ones over the years.

          • dominoko@vlemmy.netEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            It probably had desodding in the title. Or desod. It turns out I do have the photos still and I could recreate the post if necessary. It is very likely that I deleted the original post because I used to purge my accounts regularly but have slacked on it in recent years.

  • Treevan 🇦🇺@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I always preferred the community “Fuck Lawns”. We are well past the point of “No” in this current stage of biodiversity collapse.

    • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Fun fact, I mod that as well haha. I’m just not the owner and although that mod team does great, it’s very disorganized. Like literally no one got back to me about the blackout so I just restricted the sub on my own.