Lawn Grass - The Unworthy!

            I get this from my father...He always hated lawns, and the city disliked him for it. He would buy properties in Omaha, at first around his and my mother's home, an immediately planted trees. These would be trees he liked, he thought worthwhile to his nose and eye and most importantly, provided some sort of food source.  Among the trees he planted: cherry, apricot, June berry (sarvis), black walnut. These plantings also included gooseberry bushes wherever there was room to plant them.
          Because grass did not provide a food source, was not beautiful (it did not flower), nor did it provide shade, this plant was an unwelcome guest on his property. Where society and city deified it, he only had disdain. My father only used this lowly plant for his walking path, and, even then, saw it nonsense to have to mow it.
          I have come to some of the same conclusion on the common grass plant, in the sense at least that is it unworthy. Therefore, I will do all I can to plant fruit trees, day lillies, and all other drought tolerant, hardy plants. They will be given my respect. However, I, unlike my dad, I will try to compromise with the social, agricultural, mores of the city.

         See the link below for the idea of food foraging in cities:

https://www.outsideonline.com/2091096/untapped-promise-foraging-city