Green Deane for president 2020!

Excellent commentary!! I allowed my lawn to go uncut for three years and, low and behold, the squadron of fowl did their job and three years was enough to recruit a lot of very healthy saplings into the battle zone. I live outside of municipal jurisdictions, so the only pushback was angry looks from neighbors that spend hundreds, maybe thousands to keep their yards free from food and medicine. I love your work and your sense of humor is well seasoned. 🌿☘🌴

Well said Green Dean, let's all Root for the TREES!!!

i couldn't agree more! i had my share with local code enforcement. 2 yrs ago or so i received a letter in the mail saying i need to cut my lawn by xx/xx/xxxx or i would receive a fine! meanwhile the farm across the street in front of my house had weeds 3 feet tall with thistle day lilies an all and my grass was about 3+ inches tall! they didn't just want it cut but weed wacked too!! i live in rural America, no banks, no library, no police station, no nothing but yet i get a letter to cut my lawn? thanks for sharing green dean : )

Marvelous, Green Deane. Good to see you posting videos again as well.

Love this message! My mom is regularly fighting her town to leave her and her weeded lawn alone! We had a vast green grass lawn when I was a kid, after an injury in 2006 my mom stopped cutting her grass and let nature take over. Now she has medicine and food growing. In warmer months she stomps down a foot path and that's that. We need more people standing up for letting nature run wild as intended

This played in the background and I was absolute certain I was listening to George Carlin. You have the voice of a great.

I miss your videos so much. I hope all is beautiful in your life!

I'm so glad you are back. I'm so glad I hung on to the subscription...

"Trees earn their keep. Lawns have to be kept" Best quote I've heard on the subject

Love it! And that is why my 'lawn' is corsican mint, chamomile, and alpine strawberries. With trees, of course. 😘

Finally someone that makes a video about this! Thank you GREEN MASTER!

💚🌿💚🌿💚 Love this !

You're back. Nice

Sharing this to my foraging group!

Love this! We mow the yard around the house but have let the other 4 acres grow wild. I forage medicine and food from it. Plus, it invites the wildlife to come join in the foraging. 😊

Green Dean! You're all right my friend! Personally, I hate lawns to, I hate that I have to mow the yard! There may be one plus to my yard grass, It is hay grass and the seeds are edible! Thank you for sharing your video it is awesome.

I enjoy your videos so much and I hope you make some new ones soon !!😊

Lawns are a personal preference. I have a happy medium with fruit and nut trees throughout my whopping 1/3 acre(5fruit 2 nut so far) along with my maples that I make syrup from(got 3 gallons syrup last year). A lawn is a nice controlled space for my kids to play on and I don't use chemicals. I can pick and choose which weeds I want to eat and have raised beds and traditional beds over most of my backyard. I also have lots of fruit bushes on the perimeter and am now putting in a Red Bud taking the place of an old rhododendron. Don't forget those LILACS!!!! I am a new homeowner and am still working it out and replacing some more traditional garden plants with more edible decorative ones. Lawns are still good to have at the home and especially at schools, but I agree they shouldn't be acres of lawn for no purpose though. I will agree that mowing them in the middle of a humid heat wave is like torture. I sure wouldn't want to look at my neighbors property if it was a big mess though. There are plenty of options for your front yard that are not a lawn or a wild meadow. I look at the rules/laws for how to maintain a front yard as a challenge to maintain a pretty front yard and produce as much food as possible. If I had more money it would be a lot easier, but I am fortunate to have more time than most.

My favorite mantra is "love trees". I see you a picture of Joe Lamp'l planting a tree.

Yay! I'm so happy to see this channel still speaking 👍

This was excellent! Thank you so much for sharing it!

Glad to see you back GD. Missed your knowledge. Cheers

I have a small back and front yard which I try to plant fruit trees and vegetables in every workable square foot. I have never believed in wasting valuable arable space by planting non beneficial plants such as lawns. This video has not only reinforced my views but actually gave an insight that I did not know that I needed to know this. Sir, please keep this video relevant by reposting each year.

Well done.

Please make more videos !!😊

Excellent Video!

I love this analogy of war between the two species. I once heard it said that inevitably the grasses will win, but not because of lawns. Rather humans spreading bamboos around the world will mean that they will inherit a large portion of the earth since they are so adaptable. More so than ordinary grasses

♥️🙏😎hear Ur Truth BRAVO Dean ..new 2Ur ch don’t know Ur experience .. I had to fight4right to be permaculture food forest, hostile neighbors.. now my lovely park puts their dead creatureless monoculture chemical grass plots they use industrial pesticides & machinery to maintain to shame .. street-side I let my grasses go native meadow .. left alone .. some grasses are awesomely ornamental & grow into beautiful fountains 🍃🎋⛲️🎋🍃Keep Up the great work .. I also forage & it’s awesome how much green food GOD & Mother Nature provides .. but I don’t have to tell U that .. do I 🙏😎🌴🥰

What a wise man

Hey Deane. Thanks for the commentary. As a turf care service provider (lawn guy) for about 50 years now, I can say, I have probably mowed more dandelions, buckhorn plantain, chickweed, dock, sedge, etc., than real grass. Turf grass is an ancestor of selected wild grasses on the hills and moors of the English countryside. It was used to help stabilize the cleared land surrounding the old feudal estates and to allow any enemy army to be seen coming. . Any approaching army that threatened to come against that nobleman or feudal lord had to try to cross a lot of open land with no cover. Hence, the concept of the well kept lawn is directly tied to a strategy of feudal warfare. I am not against a grass covered piece of land. In fact, it helps me to keep up the fertility of my gardens by providing me with bio mass so I can make compost.

Love, love, love this video.

Well done! Thank you

Oh, thank you so much your video s are just perfect for me . Livini g i. Fl. During covid , and supply chain brakdown, close to the st.Johns River, hope that all is well with you at theis time ? Bless your soul for taking the ti e to film all of this, You hav ' nt posted any in two years ,, so I hope you are well and happy, Thank You! !

My lawns are green gold, they provide fertilizer for our garden and lets the weeds blow in when the winds blow, I have beautiful wild edibles, not chemicals, we are at the top of a mountain on an old hay farm that has been here for over 100s of years. We have lots quack grass, my dogs love to eat it and they feel better, they are part cow, lol, we never spray with anything, if anything I may clean my walkway with a little chlorine and water but I usually just blast it with water. The grass is great to chew on and walk with its stalk. We love the trees too, sumac and pine needles for tea. Blessings.

Thanks for sharing. Scott Head sent me over. Just subscribed.

I am quietly subverting the bermuda with ground ivy, squawk at my neighbors for using pesticides and herbicides, and..I had a tasty henbit haul with a few cresses this week! The HOA vetoed my communal sheep herd for mowing, meat and yarn idea.

Right on

What a Great Idea! From now on my lawn is now my Vegetable Garden. If I can eat it, it's a Vegetable, and Who can be against Veggies. I am selling the lawn mower in the morning, and buying a Bass Boat. Yeah, Fish and Veggies. My Wife will be So Pleased! LOL Thanks Deane for another good Video.

Tree good. Lawn bad. Love this video!

You had me won over with ur first statement! I want a yard FULL of dandelions too. Maybe some extra wild lettuce and thistle also... hedged in with wild elderberry and muscadine vines twining around and I'm set. 😎

Just came soon this very interesting at the same time humorous... excellent!!!

Totally agree that was wonderful

🌳🌴🌼🍇 👍😁 TFS

Lawn gets mowed but we don't really use pesticides, so a lot of dandelions and violets still come up and flower. So a good bee population around

Love your videos, and this is just a suggestion.. if you run out of ideas for making videos.. remake the old ones since theyre about 10 years old and using old camera technology. Hope all is well with you sir.

A terrific observation on the futility and damage inflicted by lawn-mania. I live in the country and still, it is astonishing just how much my neighors-distant as they are-devote time, energy, fuel, and money into maintaining large swaths of grass. It is as if when they finally get bored with the mindless watching of TV (yes, even in the country) the first thing they opt to do is to mindless cut a half-inch off the top of their grass. I know towns are even worse. What an incredible waste in so many ways.

bless you

They say the grass is always greener on the other side, but we are greener than their grass

Thanks Green Dean. I pretty much copied this and used it for my geography presentation and got an A for it.

Comedic and informative at the same time! Loved it! I tend to agree that lawns aren’t green. I’d take a front yard of yellow dandelions over the useless crab and Bermuda that’s out there right now. I’ve considered sewing loads of pink dandelions or growing oats or flax in place of the front lawn. I don’t really care about the zoning police...a girl’s gotta eat so let her sew wheat! I’m for food, not lawns! And I’m for trees also! I have a beautiful oak in the front and two very productive pecans in the back that yielded over 60 pounds of shelled nuts with no effort on my part aside from picking them up and getting them shelled! That old patch of Bermuda is not so generous or rewarding!

Awesome as always!

Ha this is pretty funny. I should show this to my neighbors

I couldn't agree more! I hate the bermuda grass on the side of my house and it seemed like wasted space so I planted about 15 fruit trees over there. Didn't bother to check the zoning regulations so I hope there are no fruit tree haters in my community.

Agreed!! Thank you.

I moved out of Florida to East Tennessee, HOAs......I don’t miss them.

So clever and true. Just subscribed and glad I found your channel.

The best!

I am with the trees too

Cool!

I hope Dean is okay; and, just got too busy with something great to do more "Eat The Weeds" videos... It sort of worries me, though, that he hasn't uploaded anything new in over a year.

This was great!

Love it.

Well spoken sir, well spoken!

You have put how I feel about grass lawns into perfect words, my yard is about 90 % edible 😋

Both grasses and trees helped shaped human history.

Well done sir. I would greatly enjoy your opinion of the COVID1984 scamdemic. Best wishes, Mr. Brown North Central Florida

Right there with you. Im in central flirida and inconstantly get letters saying that my lawn needs cared for. I have a nice patch of pepper weed going, but all they see is a disgusting uncivilized "lawn"

Hey, come back and do videos! Do you know if you keep active there are all sorts of health benefits? Stay active here. At least stop in and say hello now and then. ;)

For the trees!!!

I'm with Green Deane!

keep fighting the good fight

Eat da' Weeds!

So Green Dean how about a video on your top five weeds in salads and top five cooked weeds? And more recipe videos. Thanks!

Miss your videos my friend!

So damn funny I had to watch it twice and you sound like George Carlin!

Hate grass. Hate mowing. Its an unnecessary necessity. Trees rule.🌲🌳🌴

Haha Great video But but but But you can grow Dandilions,Daisies,Clover,Florida Betony,Ramsons,strawberries and a hundred other edibles in a lawn Camassia Quamash in a lawn is spectacular in the spring, The short lawn makes it difficult for slugs and snails to eat your crops. Try being a snail climbing over 6ft of lawn lol Apple Trees grow in lawns, over here we call them Orchards lol

Sir. Thank you for this fantastic presentation of content. I hope all is well with you and your's. I hope to see more of your content in the future. I am avid regarding all such things regarding this topic and would be interested in the purchase of books, should you have any such works. I hope this message finds you well.

Deane...where are you!?

trees are the best

Why can't we all just get along? 😂

Can you do an updated video on blue porterweed? Come back soon.

cool videos, any more on the way

What about a chamomile lawn? lol 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼☕️🍵

Damn you write well

Is this your last video here on youtube? I hope not.

What can i grow in clay soil? I understand it holds a lot of water and not to over water it

But how do you feel about bamboo?

I live in a semi-arid near desert environment, yet I'm required to keep a lawn. Not allowed to let it go to wildflowers. Not allowed to let it die. Not allowed to xeriscape or plant a garden. Nope, I'm required to spent money and time on the pointless and boring hobby of keeping grass healthy and green while not letting it get taller than 2.5 inches in height.

Well ... more or less I agree ... a lawn is an eye sore ( barely just barely useful for a pasture) A food forests in a city is more impressive & useful for both adults & young children to have play,eat & spending time outdoors! The only grasses that we need are those who we can make food (grains , sugar cane ... etc) out ! Or animals pasture ! or for industrial reasons like bamboo & such

No videos in 2 yrs, is Mr. Deane still with us?

I hate that those ecological nightmares we call "lawns" are so popular. That's why I live out in the country and don't have one.

you coming back?

EPIC !!!

If there’s a war between trees and grass, does that make palms traitors?

Hi just need to know if you are still around? I have a plant growing in Florida that I haven’t seen you talk about before. It might be invasive. Lots of medicinal properties but I am confused about the plants toxicity. If it’s the flesh that is ok only when green or if it’s the seeds which are bright red which are toxic. It grows like a vine and take over everything. Little yellow flowers bloom. The plant is fragrant. Would you know what it is? Hope to hear from you soon! Thank you for all your knowledge and wisdom! -klee

How might i send you a picture of a plant to identify?

Hello! Are you not posting anymore?

do you have a book I'd like to buy one for Florida or app I can download so I can keep it if we happen to be offline we need you more than ever right now sholom b'nai or