Food security tip – Grow food in your home lawns

The rain season approaches.

Instead of your lawns being a cost center – tall grass that needs you to pay lawn mower operators to cut it – dig up the grass and grow food.

Yes, you can.

Mix it up. Grow short-term leafy green vegetables. Add banana plants and fruit trees. Add tubers – sweet potatoes and cassava. Add spices and herbs.

It may not be enough for all year food security, but at least you will have taken control of a significant portion of your food system – from seed to plate.