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The unmanicured lawn at the new Homer Public Library. Photo by Naomi Klouda/Homer TribuneThere is an article in the Homer Tribune this week about the new public library in Homer that mentions something very interesting: the lawn around it will be deliberately left unmowed, unfertilized, unweeded and unwatered.
Writer Naomi Klouda emailed, "... the unmanicured lawn gives people pause, but is left that way as a matter of design. In public hearings, both interested citizens and the Library Advisory Board decided they didn't want to waste resources and contribute to stream, and ultimately bay, pollution through fertilizers and weed killer applications. We might be one of the first city governments to go it alone in this modern age - because when I pressed our Public Works director about how other cities do this, he couldn't think of another example."
Homer has always been a forward looking community with a great sense of social responsibility and this is just the sort of gutsy attitude they would adopt. I applaud them for doing it.
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