It’s time to stop mandating lawns

Hundreds of years ago, grassy lawns originally became popular to prove a person was wealthy enough to waste land rather than farm on it. That status symbol no longer applies, since we no longer live in a sustenance farming economy, yet it’s still mandated by law all over America. How lawns became status symbols: Back in 17th century England, the aristocracy was busy converting the old fortified castles of the feudal world into the countryside manor houses of the industrial age.