Legal

2025 was a bit of a debacle for Blendon Township’s Manage Natural Landscape ordinances, and we are hoping for a much better outcome this year. In November of 2025, two new trustees were elected to the Blendon Township Board, both of whom campaigned on support of nature and native landscapes. That gives them a majority

At the start, I was only trying to defend my own plants from a nuisance citation and an impending “forced mowing” by my township, because they had received two complaints about tall grass at my home in 2024. I did lots of work giving tours to various officials, talking to legal experts, and spending the

Not everyone appreciates an experiment in seeing what will grow in the lawn, if left to its own devices. Although we have good relationships with our neighbors, who were understanding about what we were doing, passersby and visitors were less pleased. In the early months, we wanted to see what would grow where before accidentally