Let’s Eat Weeds

Sam Young
4 min readJul 23, 2021
Greek salad with purslane

Lawns suck. At a time when record-setting wildfires, droughts, and famines threaten global security and human flourishing, Americans are deciding every year to use 30–60% of their drinking water propping up an invasive species with no practical use. Lawns are the single most irrigated crop in the United States, conservatively taking up three times more acreage than corn. Gas powered lawn mowers account for five percent of the air pollution in the United…

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Sam Young

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.