I was out at Five Rivers Environmental Education Center earlier today and thinking about how when I own land, I would make it a major priority to eliminate invasive species and plant as many native species as possible and try to maintain a mixed successional landscape to promote healthy wildlife both for hunting, farming and observation purposes.

I doubt I would ever bother having much lawn – grass is good to grow for livestock not beauty. While I wouldn’t be afraid of chemicals and my homestead wouldn’t be organic, I would avoid excess plastic or unnecessary chemicals beyond what is necessary to make my land managent goals a success.