Good point. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. Home owners should feel free to maintain a neat lawn around their houses. I do.

Farmers need to plant large fields of corn and maintain hay fields. Their livelihoods depend on it.

That still leaves huge areas that can be maintained as open space while also providing better wildlife habitat.

Wildflower meadows can be maintained in a way that still looks very neat and tidy for places where appearance matters. One option is to keep a strip of lawn around the perimeter of the field trimmed short but let the rest grow flowers all summer. It looks very nice that way.

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