My sister always says that lawns are useless, they are large extra parts in our homes that require work and maintenance but and give us very little in return. I agree with her because if we got rid of lawns and replaced them with gardens instead, we can create sustainable food sources that are good for the environment and provides your family with healthy food to eat. We can also get cities to make community gardens so there's local food for the community to eat. This could also mean that we can start to rely less on cutting down forests to make land for farming.

I agree with you that lawns are useless! If we replaced front or back lawns with gardens we would have less of a need to cut down forest, use land for farming, and our communities will be more green! However, much of humanity doesn't have the time to watch over their own garden, which is why I think having community gardens will be a better idea. People will be able to watch and learn how to garden and learn to take care of plants! It can also bring a lot of people together and will allow the community to be stronger. I'm also thinking we could add flowers just to add more colour!

I do agree that lawns just being an open grass space is useless. However I also think that some people who work long shifts or are not home a lot may not be able to grow food since it takes maintenance. for example you have to water the plants, weed the weed growing around and more. So I think it would be great for people to plant gardens and if they could not take care of it themselves it would also be cool if they could let their neighbour or their friends or family either use it or take care of it while the person cannot take  care of their garden.

Well, I agree to some of that statement. But i also have some disagreements. Lawns can be useful in many ways, as an example. During covid the amount of dogs that have been adopted have more than tripled. So regarding to that, lawns i personally have a dog that runs in the lawn for hours and hours and loves it. And also when you have friends and/or family come over to visit lawns are really good to go out chill, and play games. But i also agree that if you have more than enough space then you need you can turn some of it into useful land like gardens. so as i said before you do have some good points but they aren't completely useless.

I agree with you, that’s a good idea and it makes sense. It would help everyone reduce meat consumption. But yet again the world is changing and about half of the time things won’t be in season as the weather gets colder. So many pros and cons it difficult to say what’s the right decision.

I agree partly with your statement that lawns are useless if not used in the right way but also, don't agree because lawns can have many different uses. For example, my family likes to grow vegetables in our lawn and play soccer on our lawns. If lawns are used as empty space where no one takes care of and the grass is all dead and long than I do agree that lawns are useless in that scenario. My family and I do like to play with our neighbors dog and we use our lawn as a place for him to run around and be free. If you do have extra lawn space that if you can turn that space into a garden that would be useful. For example, a community garden that the entire community can take care of together.

This is an interesting conversation to me because there are so many different pros and cons to this in my opinion. For example if you do use a yard space to grow food I think that is great, but like its said above if you aren't really using your lawn then it is a waste of space in my opinion. Also I do have dogs too, and I have a back yard and my dogs do like to be in that space, but lots of people own dogs living in apartments. Maybe the dog would prefer to be outside more but there are dogs that are fine without a backyard or front yard space. So I dont know really where I stand for this I think I am in the middle. Maybe we could do things like smaller yards like only front yard or backyard instead of both. Or like it is said above using extra lawn space for a community garden or maybe a composting place for worms or something.

I somewhat agree with your point that lawns are useless but they're not completely useless. Lawns can be used for social gatherings that may not be occurring now but could be used after the pandemic. Another good use for lawns could be pets, like dogs. Sometimes the house isn't good enough for them and the lawn is a great way for them to boost their mood. Home gardens are a good idea though, they may cost a bit of money but it would help with trees getting cut down and they're a sustainable food source as well.