{"id":12,"date":"2006-10-07T23:17:42","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T09:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/?p=12"},"modified":"2006-10-07T23:17:42","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T09:17:42","slug":"lawn-right-or-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2006\/10\/lawn-right-or-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawn, right or wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently i mowed the lawn and gathered the cut grass.  Cut grass is useful, both as bedding that makes the chicken coop smell nice, and as a green matter input to the compost pipeline.  This makes for happy chickens and nice organic compost for our eventual tea plantation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-1\/DSC00107-coop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-1\/DSC00107-coop_small.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-1\/DSC00118-compost.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-1\/DSC00118-compost_small.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNow, there are many people that say a lawn is a terrible thing, and they&#8217;re mostly right.  A quick web search turns up &#8220;green lawns have to be maintained through use of chemicals that can pollute the groundwater and kill beneficial plants and insects; Americans spent $17.4 billion a year on their lawns; it the largest irrigated crop in the United States, consuming 50-70 percent of U.S. residential water&#8230;&#8221;  You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Well, those folks aren&#8217;t talking about the Wet Side of the Island of Hawaii!  Here, lawn is not a foolish waste of environmental resources.  It is a defense tactic against the ever-incroaching wall of Kikuyu grass (brought to Hawaii from Africa by cattle ranchers), which rapidly grows to several feet high, making land impassible and unusable.  A lawn here consumes no chemicals and no water.  However, mowing it provides a very large quantity of useful cut grass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently i mowed the lawn and gathered the cut grass. Cut grass is useful, both as bedding that makes the chicken coop smell nice, and as a green matter input to the compost pipeline. This makes for happy chickens and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2006\/10\/lawn-right-or-wrong\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens","category-crops","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}