In my continuing quest to utilize nature's own economy to get my food needs met, I was checking in with an old friend of mine who's an urban naturalist and he mentioned that there was a website that listed the larger urban wild spaces in the city of Boston. And when I went to the
Urban Wilds | City of Boston site I discovered that there is actually an official city program to protect and preserve urban wild spaces in the city. Which is just
brilliant, if you ask me. :-)
And it got me wondering what it would take for every city and suburb to have such a program, and if they could expand it to create community-based programs where private owners and tenants with smaller spaces would be encouraged and supported in creating their own small wild spaces, similar to what the
Backyard Wildlife Habitat program from the National Wildlife Federation does. Because currently, it's often illegal or at least difficult to create a wild space, because of arcane laws that prohibit people from allowing plants and animals from roaming wild and free (think: don't let your grass grow up, or the city will fine you!). If instead of fining you for creating a healthy space for nature to do her work, the government would actively
help you create natural spaces where all sorts of Earthlings, including humans, would be able to access nature's stores of wh*** food, clean water, fresh air, and other beneficial and health-promoting resources. And as the number of small wild spaces grew, wh*** communities would become connected wildlife corridors that allowed nature to more easily flow across the larger landscape of the region.
Imagine being able to walk out into your community and shop for your lunch in the yards of your friends and neighbors and in the public parks of your city or town. How do you imagine that would that improve the economy of your world?
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