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Well right now I only have a 1/2 an acre of lawn. Well minus the house, Garage, and kids stuff :P
I used to mow with a 21" push mower but that took to long. Now I mow with a '69 simplicity which has a 42" deck. So it takes about 20 minutes.
This time next year with any luck we will have moved next door and I will have 4 acres of lawn!
Not that it will be lawn for long lol. Just till I layout my crop plots and animal paddocks :)
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| Our lawn is getting smaller. If taxes go up, we are letting the cows graze around the house.
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| after the mouse thing, I'm mowing EVERYTHING! I also feed the chickens a wee bit in spots that need trimming.
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I have about an acre to mow. However, I try to keep the lawn as sustainable as possible. This means no watering EVER. In NH this isn't too problematic.. stays green most of the summer. Also, I only mow it twice a month and set it HIGH. Also, about half of it is "weeds" (clover etc.) I don't care at all. The amount of time and energy I save more than makes up for the occassional "raised eyebrow" I get. Who cares.... We are going to waste resources maintaining a parade ground for now purpose??? Not me. I encourage everyone to do the same. Thanks!
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| We have just over 3/4 acre fenced in for the homestead area. This includes the house, 32x48 shop and storage, drive and parking, family garden, and front yard. I did this with the plan to minimize the amount of land that I would have to mow. We have been letting the cows into the front yard this summer and fall, but that will stop in a month or so. I am cutting the front yard in half at least this winter by planting 160 to 200 blackberry plants in the front half of it. Cheers, Paul
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Lawn, it's just an extension of the garden. We don't have a lot anyway, but this year we converted most of it to garden. Used a rotary push mower most of the time. Else we moved around the bunny play pen.
Once we borrowed the neighbors JD, yea it got away once during "the rainy season"
On the topic of weeds, what good is an "omni-culture" anyway? 
IMHO 
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We are going to waste resources maintaining a parade ground for now purpose???
to keep weeds down, cut the lawn at 4 inches.. then cut when it needs it. the purpose isn't to be snobby..or it's not meant to be, the idea is to keep rats and other vermin from your home. Perhaps you live in a world full of snobs and that is another issue, however I would not want to have a "green lawn" at the expense of a pile of snakes, rats and mice in my home and living space. Also Flies.
My current client has a million dollar home with a giant hay field that runs up to his front door. he wondered why he has millions of dead flies on the floor! well duh! they have a perfect place to thrive and the first place they ran to was your house. Also, his farm is dripping with snakes and rats!
So to me it's not about looking good but keeping such vermin under control. I mean if someone said, don't wash yourself...you'll be more green...would you give up showers at the risk of your health?
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I think that is right, I agree with what you said
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I never saw this thread. That's too bad because I think about it myself from time to time. My father was an international legal attorney at a major corporation. One day he walked into the break room and saw the secretaries watching lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. When he asked why they watched that crap, they replied so they would have some notion of how to spend their money in the event that they win the lottery. I refer to these people as mon keigh, which would take too long to explain.
I think that what leads to all these lawns is expectation. Look back to the days the French aristocracy dwelt in palaces surrounded by hundreds of acres of green lawns. People devoid of imagination, and there are so many, succumb to what's expected to achieve some sort of status. It's probably just as simple as that.
Personally, I think huge lawns are just a waste. Not only do people waste money dumping chemicals into them and neglecting the wealth in food they could be used to produce, it denied wild life habitat. We just bought two acres in Hawaii. My lawn will be about a tenth of an acre.
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I think that keeping a tight lawn just keep the mice and critters away. Would letting the brush grow back not give critters an advantage?
I myself think that cutting the lawn nice is just one more way to get away from the world. SOme like sports, some have a man cave or a den, and some guys just like a really nice lawn. 
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