Cascadian Edible Landscapes » Lawns http://www.eatyouryard.com eat your yard Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:02:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Sod Cutting Spree–Lawns meet their Doom http://www.eatyouryard.com/2010/04/03/sod-cutting-spree/ http://www.eatyouryard.com/2010/04/03/sod-cutting-spree/#comments Sun, 04 Apr 2010 04:11:53 +0000 Michael http://www.eatyouryard.com/?p=419 Partl fund-raiser for SPRING INTO BED, and part to fulfill a long held fantasy of Michael Seliga (CEL co-owner), on April 24th 2010 Cascadian Edible Landscapes will be hosting a promotional day of Sod Cutting across Seattle.

About Sod Cutting Spree is:

We send a team, a truck, and a sod cutter out to cut [...]]]> Partl fund-raiser for SPRING INTO BED, and part to fulfill a long held fantasy of Michael Seliga (CEL co-owner), on April 24th 2010 Cascadian Edible Landscapes will be hosting a promotional day of Sod Cutting across Seattle.

About Sod Cutting Spree is:

  • We send a team, a truck, and a sod cutter out to cut the sod for all the willing neighbors in a neighborhood/community.  We remove lawns for as many people in 1 day as possible.
  • We cut and roll up sod as quickly as possible.
    • NOTE:  We can cut several hundred square feet in a couple of hours.
  • Minimum charge will be $80 (2 labor hours) to  make sure we cover transportation and admin.
    • Removal of sod can be done on a different day for additional time/cost.
  • CEL tracks each team’s effort.  Winning team will be awarded a prize (TBD)

All proceeds (after CEL covers costs), will go towards CEL’s $1000 contribution to Spring Into Bed (SIB).   The $1000 contribution towards SIB will be used to build a (lower income) family a set a garden beds NOW, and will help another family get their garden going later.

If you and your neighbors would like to participate in this event and have sod ripped out, hooray for you and please contact us right away.

Thanks and talk to you soon,

CEL

]]> http://www.eatyouryard.com/2010/04/03/sod-cutting-spree/feed/ 1 Lawns Contribute to Greenhouse Gases- Why you should tear it out http://www.eatyouryard.com/2010/01/18/lawnsandrgreenhousegases/ http://www.eatyouryard.com/2010/01/18/lawnsandrgreenhousegases/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:20:53 +0000 Jake http://www.eatyouryard.com/?p=293 Urban ‘Green’ Spaces May Contribute to Global Warming. As it turns out, “green spaces” doesn’t mean pocket parks or wooded areas. It refers to grass. Grass in parks and grass covering athletic fields. And, although the study – from the University of California Irvine – looked at grass in parks, the conclusions may give pause to [...]]]> Urban ‘Green’ Spaces May Contribute to Global Warming. As it turns out, “green spaces” doesn’t mean pocket parks or wooded areas. It refers to grass. Grass in parks and grass covering athletic fields.
And, although the study – from the University of California Irvine – looked at grass in parks, the conclusions may give pause to lawn-proud homeowners, too:

Dispelling the notion that urban “green” spaces help counteract greenhouse gas emissions, new research has found – in Southern California at least – that total emissions would be lower if lawns did not exist.

Why?It’s not so much the grass — which does remove CO2 from the air and store carbon in the soil — but the care that the lawn needs: applying fertilizer, mowing, irrigation, leaf blowing, etc., all of which produce emissions (four times greater than the amount of carbon stored).
Read the whole article: http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Bright-Green/2010/0122/Lawns-may-contribute-to-global-warming

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