Maybe it's the water restrictions. Maybe it's the shaky economy. Dotted through our neighborhood are houses where lawns have been replaced by vegetable gardens. According to Time magazine , the trend was sowed in the summer of 2005 by Los Angeles architect Fritz Haeg. He saw the manicured front lawn as an American icon that cut across politics, social classes and economics. But he also saw it as out of date.
A shared adventure in organic backyard gardening and composting