Nowhere in the article was there a link for an actual multi year study.
We stopped mowing when we moved two years ago. I’m currently outside in my hammock, surrounded by butterflies and birds everywhere, which weren’t here when we moved. Fuck lawns.
I have a huge yard and do my best to keep it under control, I still have a ton of birds, butterflies, fireflies, etc in my yard all the time. I even saw a groundhog or similar the other day.
Did you just stop entirely and do nothing else? Or did you do some sort of zeriscaping or something?
I hate our lawn, but I don’t know how to transition it to something else. I don’t really have time to figure it all out myself and do all the physical labor of changing the lawn to something more manageable. So I just kinda mow here and there.
For the backyard, I did nothing (for the front yard, I did get a ton of wood chips to try to kill off the grass). This is second year of no-mow:
