Beware of a “perfectly” manicured neighborhood. It takes hours of landscaping noise and dangerous chemicals to achieve that look.
We need to get this concept across: No one wants to live near constant leaf blower and loud machine noise!
A friend recently decided against the purchase of a home because every time she visited the property there were leaf blowers blasting away in the neighborhood. People don’t want to buy in neighborhoods like these. The noise and pollution is lowering our property values.
Home buyers will pay a premium to live in areas where these crews are not allowed and where individual use of leaf blowers is not allowed. Those will be the MOST DESIRABLE neighborhoods to invest in.
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I'm an environmental advocate for sustainable yards working against the toxic golf course-style landscaping. It seems reasonable to expect that a gardener would know about native ecosystems and essential soil microbes, but not the case. Instead, we have guys with a lot of obnoxious and polluting engines visiting our neighborhoods daily. Apparently, loud engines and a backpack of RoundUp are what you need to "garden". In terms of herbicides and pesticides, landscapers and homeowners spray 30,000 tons (source: epa) of it every year on yards across America. All these needless pesticides end up in our waterways polluting drinking water and killing fish. We can all commit to a quiet, peaceful pesticide-free garden. Join your native plant society to learn about the plants we evolved with for millions of years. Planing native plants can actually save our birds and pollinators from extinction. Shrink the lawn!
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