{"id":127562,"date":"2015-08-20T14:40:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T20:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/20\/americas-biggest-crop-is-lawn-grass.html"},"modified":"2015-08-21T15:05:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T21:05:20","slug":"americas-biggest-crop-is-lawn-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/20\/americas-biggest-crop-is-lawn-grass.html","title":{"rendered":"America&#039;s biggest crop &#8230; is lawn grass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though we&#39;re doing our part to reduce that. Both the side and front yard areas that were torn up by the kitchen\/basement project will be replanted with &#8230; plants. Bushes. Roses. Grasses (of the ornamental kind). Ground cover. Not necessarily xeriscape, but more water-thrifty than the grass all was.<\/p>\n<p>We&#39;ll still have a patch of grass in the back, but I&#39;ll have to mow that myself. (But not, I fear, with a jaunty smile and pipe between my teeth.)<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103389452828130864950\" oid=\"103389452828130864950\">Yonatan Zunger<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/io9.com\/how-america-s-most-useless-crop-also-became-its-most-co-1724553276'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/eFbNLTMmH0778zd5rU_DUiNDWcZTfUU9Wg6j9rQG9NmNmFDVDP1zNqgPNr64L9gGUZCyc02myXen0urA5n0RW3mUppC_5mO_a2bJpjvMpuCW99FZoQDF_RJI9RvfN0Kvb4z5EdKv=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/io9.com\/how-america-s-most-useless-crop-also-became-its-most-co-1724553276'>How America&rsquo;s Most Useless Crop Also Became Its Most Commonly Grown One<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nContrary to what you may think (and what your food labels may suggest) corn is not the most grown crop in America. The most grown crop is something no one is eating, no one is asking for, and no one is quite sure what to do with. It&rsquo;s your lawn.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/WyBaykTUg8s'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though we&#39;re doing our part to reduce that. Both the side and front yard areas that were torn up by the kitchen\/basement project will be replanted with &#8230; plants. Bushes. Roses. Grasses (of the ornamental kind). Ground cover. Not necessarily xeriscape, but more water-thrifty than the grass all was. We&#39;ll still have a patch of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/20\/americas-biggest-crop-is-lawn-grass.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;America&#039;s biggest crop &#8230; is lawn grass&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,63,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-environment","category-home-improvement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37816,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/15\/inch-by-inch-in-a-row.html","url_meta":{"origin":127562,"position":0},"title":"Inch by inch, in a row","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 15-Jun-13 1:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... gonna watch my borders grow.When we moved into the house seventeen-plus years ago, the back yard had waaaaaaay too much grass (i.e., almost everything was grass). \u00a0We started laying out flower beds in broad swathes, killing the grass (or whatever) under them with newspaper and dirt, then planting them\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13148,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/09\/bear_with_slippers.html","url_meta":{"origin":127562,"position":1},"title":"Bear with slippers","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 9-Jul-08 12:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 They're replacing all the grass by the Convention Center Big Blue Bear with flagstones, and have the feet all sheathed in plastic....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Pix&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Pix","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/pix"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3082\/2652813753_b1af615929.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7306,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/02\/yes_sir_yes_sir.html","url_meta":{"origin":127562,"position":2},"title":"Yes, sir, yes, sir, four bags full","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 2-Apr-05 1:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Woot. 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