Using friendship-based community organizing and principles of permaculture, gift economy, and mutual aid, Food Not Lawns has been turning yards into gardens and neighborhoods into communities since 1999, when we were conceived by the Food Not Bombs family in Eugene, Oregon. For more than twenty years small, self-organized groups of grassroots gardeners have been organizing local seed swaps, joining together for garden work parties, and making lots of friends while learning more about the simple act of growing food can radically improve your home, your community, and your life.
I’m convinced that suburban gardening is just an elaborate way to spend tons of money and resources feeding the local squirrel and rat population.
Source: my tomatoes and peppers. Again. Just like last year. And the year before.
At least it helps some local animals!
Squirrels in suburbs are invasive and destructive because all of their natural predators have been driven away by suburban development.