Oddbean new post about login | logout @3967703f I’m trying to start a food security + rewilding program in my city. The project proposal is currently going through bureaucracy but they’ve been sending me very positive signals, they’ve just never done anything like this before and it might take a while to set up. If it does, I will post about it and other people can set up the same program in their cities. Cemeteries are always short of funding so this benefits everyone. https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/111/128/912/355/970/575/original/a9b1d6dc63322479.jpeg
@adfbf87b Not sure where you're located, but we tried to do some rewilding work on our cemeteries here in SW Ontario and ran into a lot of legal restrictions. Would love to hear about how your project goes, especially if you can provide advice for replication!
@0c59af14 could you let me know what those legal restrictions were? We’re in the US.
@adfbf87b Can't recall the exact ones, but apparently we have provincial laws which mandate our municipalities to uphold very prescriptive maintenance standards (mowed turf, etc.) For cemeteries. Those rules complicated our proposal to the point that it made more sense to prioritize other spaces like low use lawn areas in certain parks, at least for now.
@0c59af14 thanks, the cemeteries here have issues even affording for people to mow the grass. We were thinking of planting only in certain areas (not over internments) like along fences/borders, entrances/exit garden plots, main office garden, and planting trees in places where there needs to be shade.
@adfbf87b @3967703f aren't cemeteries often sprayed with noxious chemicals?
@383c57e5 @3967703f are you referring to herbicides to keep grass grass? Ours does not and often can’t afford to have people mow the grass much less spray chemicals. And even if other cemeteries did, it wouldn’t matter bc people are just collecting seeds for planting. The native plants would be planted in specific places in the cemetery such as front office gardens, along borders/entrances, etc. Not where people mow or might spray chemicals.
