No Lawns

starting my no lawn journey tomorrow. I'll post a different thread about it

25 native trees, 15 native bushes, 2 dawn redwoods because I'm oddly infatuated with them. pic of small first delivery.

I live in the Kansas City area which is comfortably Zone 6 from my understanding.

We've recently purchased our first house and the yard work is super time consuming! With .5 acres just mowing alone takes like 2 hours with my push mower due to all the trees and hills in the yard. I would like to have a pollinator friendly yard while also not having to spend so much time mowing. Using less gas in general would also be neat.

What I am thinking of doing is prior to first snow fall, over-seed with wildflowers from American Medows for most of the yard, and then in areas with some foot traffic, plant a mixture of clover and native grasses and then only worry about mowing in that area periodically.

Has anybody else ever over seeded with wildflowers? A lot of stuff I see posted here (and formerly on reddit) seem to be a bunch of elegant but hard and time consuming work like ripping up the yard, putting cardboard and mulch down, and then planting over that. However, I don't really have the time and money to do all that 🙁. Would I have desirable results with just over-seeding?

I have a house that's set back from the street about 100 feet and the yard is 120 feet wide. I don't water or fertilize but I still need to mow to keep it under control. Does anyone have any tips for a space that big that won't require an enormous amount of maintenance? I'd love to use primarily native species but the only thing that really seems to take off is thistle.

Taken from reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/comments/15u06f0/my_favourite_type_of_propaganda_encouraging/

What are some general considerations for where seeds would like to be around the neighborhood, around town? And is it generally best to wait for rain?

We have honey and solitary bees, sunflowers lavander and a lot more :) Our journey started last year and it only gets better!

I was surprised to see so many tubes sealed (it's on its second year but it looks like we missed the window to swap in the replacement tubes I'd made). If you spot any other issues please let me know.

The project of converting my front yard from turf grass with Asian shrubs to all native plants.

If you're going to plant grass, make it native to your area, wildlife depends on it.

I need something that isn't grass to plant on my lawn. Ideally something hard wearing and can be mowed because my kids will tear it up aha

I've tried clover but it doesn't seem to have survived a first mow+the summer sun.

TIA

A couple of weeks ago I detailed how I was letting my grass do whatever it wanted until I found the foxtails were taking over.

I took alergy pills for three days straight and was able to cut the grass and rake it without an allergy attack.

I'm slowly adding natives in between my indoor projects.

Would anyone like to give me advice on what would work well for a front yard in zone 5a/5b? The house is on a pond and there is a lot of tree cover.

I really have no idea where to start.

I've seen 2 new awesome resources pop up in the comments this week (I haven't added them to the list yet my personal life is chaos right now). I'd love to know if you guys have come across any other books, websites, videos etc that you find very useful and informative to add to the list.

Here is the current list of resources.

I'd love to get as many resources as possible outside the US.

A comprehensive mapping of old subreddits to new communities.