{"id":4409,"date":"2010-05-09T13:01:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T13:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2010-05-09T13:01:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T13:01:18","slug":"sustainable-management-of-grass-in-islamic-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/sustainable-management-of-grass-in-islamic-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable management of grass in Islamic gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/buffalo_mower_grass_cutting1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4417\" title=\"buffalo_mower_grass_cutting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/buffalo_mower_grass_cutting1.jpg\" alt=\"Sustainable management of grass in Islamic gardens\" width=\"775\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/buffalo_mower_grass_cutting1.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/buffalo_mower_grass_cutting1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/buffalo_mower_grass_cutting1-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/buffalo_mower_grass_cutting1-624x403.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a> This lovely photograph was taken by Michael Lancaster c1968. My first thought, on finding it this morning, was that is showed a sustainable approach to cutting grass. But do the water buffalos emit more C02 than the small amount of hydrocarbon a motor mower would use? Perhaps. But the buffalo C02 would be endlessly re-cycled and the fossil hydrocarbon would be transferred from the earth&#8217;s crust to the earth&#8217;s atmosphere. Another point evident from Michael&#8217;s photograph is that this is not how the greenspace should be managed. It ought to be a lush area of fruit and flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lovely photograph was taken by Michael Lancaster c1968. My first thought, on finding it this morning, was that is showed a sustainable approach to cutting grass. But do the water buffalos emit more C02 than the small amount of hydrocarbon a motor mower would use? Perhaps. But the buffalo C02 would be endlessly re-cycled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}