You can spray your sidewalks and driveways and any area of your yard with pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides that poison the insects, wildlife, humans, get into the ground water, etc and that is just fine. But have a wild garden and you will be endlessly harassed and fined. Yup, makes total sense.
@@Makrel94 I am a lover of this country and a patriot. This does not diminish that as I believe there is much to be proud of. I have the ability to both love the freedoms we have and want to preserve them and also see where we can improve at the Federal, State, and local levels.
Imagine being so possessed by societal norms that you’re taking a woman to court for wanting to frolic with nature on her own property. This is terrible.
Right! Strange for a society obsessed with private property. If they want "proper" lawns on everyone's yard, then make public natural space easily accessible and walkable for everyone.
I used to work for a lawn mowing customer service company. It’s ridiculous the things Americans have to deal with. Being fined hundred of dollars over a few inches of grass is normal all over. No wonder there’s so much mental illness, they probably get taxed for breathing the wrong air too.
cops being cops lol trying to bully her into submission! but this is a beautiful story otherwise 🦋 just shows how nature brings ppl together ❤ it is our direct connection to the divine! 💪😇
The crazy thing is, mowed lawns haven't always been in style. People used to love dandelions, wild flowers, etc. My neighbors use chemicals to keep their lawn green and weed free. How is that healthy for the environment?!?
I agree, if it's her property and it isn't spilling over into others and causing damage to others let her do what she wants, but I'll admit if she's attracting an abnormal amount of bee's and wasps and a neighbor is allergic it can cause issues but I'm sure they could find a way to make it work.
You can get your yard declared as a wildlife refuge. She should look into that. National Wildlife Foundation has a check list, online application and $20 annual membership fee. She can also check with her state Audubon or Native Plant Society. I think she's just missing a water feature. Surprised her attorneys didn't do that already.
@@Jenaesaisquoi They’ll care when the smack up against state and federal law. A federal nature preserve is nationally protected, once a area ha been declared a refuge they face jail time and fines if they damage and destroy it. You may wish to research the law that protects refuges, and speak to a solicitor educated in this area to assist you further.
Wtfvfoes being "indigenous" have to do with anything? It isn't like any of the native tribes actually lived in "balance" with nature. Give up that myth, it isn't true, zero evidence for that assertion, as a matter of fact, there is ample evidence to the contrary. That said, I am fully with you on the disgust for the lawn garbage.
@@AnEnemyAnemone1you ought to recognize how blind your false sense of equality is. you ignore how native people have been literally forced to accept imposed cultures, like gardens, and naturally have a sense of separation from the dominant culture. they're not separating themselves from everyone, they have always known a sense of separation and aggressive domination. check your inherited power, hopefully you will have a better understanding of society as you grow
My neighbors complained to the city that my yard was overgrown. When an inspector came out to look at it, she ended up saying that my yard looks like it should be in a gardening magazine. She even put that in the report that was sent to the neighbor. I never heard the neighbors reaction.
@@avelynn5976 Wow... So mature... --but seriously, they do have the right to do that, but the neighbors were obviously just jealous of his yard LOL! That's why they send out an inspector, instead of just believing them.
The state should be paying her and anyone else to create native gardens, supporting the local biosphere that gives/supports life for EVERYONE. We need nature education in every school. Seriously.
I'd also be curious to compare how much rainwater runoff comes off of her property to that of the neighbouring properties. Root penetration from her garden should be deeper, opening it up to greater water and carbon sequestration, and thus less susceptibility to drought and erosion. This important for a number of reasons, but in an urban context & with climate change exacerbated weather events in mind, gardens like hers will contribute greatly towards flooding prevention due to overwhelmed drainage systems never designed to cope with excessive levels of precipitation. From the city's perspective, that should mean lower maintenance costs and fewer repairs from damaged and clogged drainage systems and other public infrastructure.
Unfortunately that is the way of life! I have one neighbor who constantly calls code on me because I have livestock on my property. I am zoned residential agricultural and I have the right to have livestock on my property and grow the plants I choose to grow. I will continue to fight for my rights because when you don't you lose those rights! Besides I lived on this property for many more years than them. They knew what was here BEFORE THEM!
This tick excuse is crappy. If her garden is bringing in birds that eat ticks then it’s a pretty balanced ecosystem and there should be no increase in ticks. On top of that it’s HER PROPERTY! She bought it! Doesn’t sound like she signed an HOA contract! Leave her alone!
It is a city and county code issue, and without having it look tended and rather it looks unkept, they can and will eventually force her to do something years down the road and fighting it always ends the same way. IF YOU READ THIS, I hope she contacts her local horticulture and botanical societies. They can offer her some very valuable information on maintaining the garden while being in line with codes with simple things such as trimming the bushes and trees and use of garden decorations and walkways that clearly show the garden is cultivated and cared for. NY is one of the harder places in towns to dictate what you can and cannot do with your property. No one wants their property values to go down and that's what she truly is fighting.
That's what I said. I work on a small forested patch landlocked inside of a suburban block. We already had deer, raccoon, gophers & turkey wander through here often, before & there were ticks here before. Ever since it took off, I haven't seen a single tick & I walk through there all the time. Mosquito population goes through cycles that keep them relatively under control too.
@@lumindina699 It doesn't always end the same. See Hermine Ricketts and Tom Carroll, in FL. My town in the midwest just made plans for Native and Pollinator gardens and is educating the citizens AND the code enforcement people. THIS is how change is made. The CODE and the antiquated views of "pretty" (read "I have lots of money") needs to change. Not Jenae.
So instead of them going to actual abandoned homes that look awful and fixing them up they want her to “fix” her garden!! DISGUSTING DISGRACE TRAITORS TO MOTHER EARTH!!!
I hate this obsession with manicured lawns, it's artificial and boring. We should all be planting native plants. My mother is a master gardener and for the last 5 years she has been doing exactly what this woman is doing and it has paid off in so many ways.
And these “perfect lawns” also reveals the stupidity of the people who likes them. Look at all those water guzzling lawns being grown in the middle of deserts where water is already extremely scarce.
i have always loved front and backyards to have different plants and scenery, it adds so much to a house. some people do have preferences though and that's fine, but in this case, it was completely wrong to harass this woman over an issue that doesn't even exist. i really dislike how modern and minimalist everything is getting because it is so bland, boring and lacks color majority of the time
The aerial shots showed large properties with big trees and nothing else but lawn. It is boring and I think it's also lazy. No gardens but a large amount of land being used for minimal return to the environment. I think she should get a nicer fence though, that one is hideous and gives the property a Halloween feel.
Grass is the most inefficient, labor intensive, high polluting way to maintain a property. Lawn fertilizers, weed control, soil conditioners for lawn have such a negative consequence to soil and ground water.
We have a lawn. We don't water it or fertilize it. If it grows, it grows, and we mow it. My husband loves to mow. I spent decades trying to figure out how to make my gardens pretty, beneficial, and easy to care for. And how to keep him from mowing everything. I gave up. Let him mow.
Ten years ago, I killed off my lawn with sheet mulching and several tons of top soil. Then I planted as many xeric native perennials, shrubs and trees as possible. The backyard is a vegetable garden, fruit trees, vines and shrubs. I live on a corner in the city and so far no complaints from the City and only one from a neighbor who was disappointed there was no lawn! Keep fighting the good fight, young lady!
I will never understand this backlash, it’s well known that food forests and permaculture yield more food within less space and promotes biodiversity. You’re doing the world a favor, people need to mind their own business.
Totally agree!, I have sheep they do most of the mowing for me!, most properties have a city easement, I never understood why home owners had to mowing that city should!
Reminds me of my neighbor who constantly complained about the squirrels but had a plastic squirrel among the "decorations" in the gravel coated patch of "garden" in her yard.
Avocados being the exception. They match the water requirements of an equal sized patch of grass. I like avocados but I can’t in good conscience, eat them. A mature tree in California uses 91 litres per day in summer. 70 litres per fruit- more than 12 times the water per tomato. Source California Avocado Commission and a few others.
The world needs more people like her this world would be such a better place she actually gets, understands, and respects the circle of life🙏🏾🥰 Thank you for actually contributing to humanity and trying to make a difference for the better. Unlike these people harassing sucking up taxpayers dollars even bothering to take her to court and for what? Doing something that’s right people need to be careful we living in the end of days and God sees all.
If you want to pick on someone, aim your gripes at Monsanto for wiping out much of the pollinator population. When I think of the Catskills, I think of wilderness & natural beauty! We need a .ot more wildflowers, not manicured lawns. Our food supply needs to support pollinators.
We definitely do NOT have a law like that in Sweden. As long as things in your garden isn't hanging over the fence into their garden or onto the street, and as long as you're not keeping environmental hazards in your garden, it's none of their beeswax.
Same here. When we discovered tisle butterflies eating in the garden we let them be until they became pups. In prosess to become a butterfly. Having a short lawn all the time is just nonsence. Once a week barely. Cheers from Norway.
My friend did this in Miami. I couldn't believe it, but his and only his house, attracts amazing singing birds, butterflies and all sorts of wonderful life.
my answer "if I wanted that, I would have lived in an HOA." Second answer, "Do you want to pay for lawn care for a high maintenance yard? Lawn care in this area is about a weeks worth of groceries. So you DO agree its expensive and its better used for groceries. yeah this...this is low maintenance."
@@noellerilleau6529 But she’s introducing invasive species into the backyards and in the process destroying the ecosystem by eliminating native species.
@@noellerilleau6529 That doesn’t matter. It is against the HOA to build something that could potentially damage the ecosystem and increase climate change.
She should be given an environmental tax break. Cause she's spending less time polluting the atmosphere with a lawnmower, weedeater, leaf blower, and machine noise. Promoting a natural environment.
If Catskill NY doesn't like her flower and herb garden for fear of crime, they could always arrest, prosecute and lock up criminals. Instead of trampling on her right to persue happiness.
@@eibrahim22 serious question: what's the appeal of New York? With the stuffs people be talking it's like a GTA Online public lobby. Why would anyone want to live there? Coming from a Florida man
@DanDaFreakinMan as a southerner (im from GA) who currently lives and works in Upstate NY, i have to say, as lomg as you dont go to NYC, or the outlying counties that have that... culture. Its amazing up here.
@@DanDaFreakinMan How's that home insurance working for you in hurricane season in FL? At least you get to silence a company's free speech down there, I guess.
They might as well tell everyone they have to have their lights on 24 hours a day Because a house with the lights on is less likely to be burglarized than a house with all the lights off.
My best friend has a natural garden here in Belgium.....It's so nice sitting outside without the bees and other insects bothering you because they have plenty of flowers and plants especially for them. She also had a little pond with fish,she added herself, but the frogs showed up by themself. there even was a hedgehog roaming around! What a true oasis!
"a little pond with fish,she added herself, but the frogs showed up by themself" YES!!! I see the same story on the @StefanoIaniro channel, this is unbelievable. 🐸🐸🐸🐸🦎🦎🦎🦎🦋🦋🦋🦋🐛🐛🐛🐛
This is the epitome of sickening. People will cry about climate, carbon, and the health of the environment and then be doing stuff like this. In a world gone mad, this woman is doing something right!
I have a neighbor who constantly has trash all over their front and back yard and am picking up garbage from my own native pollinator gardens complain about my yard. It's absolutely mind blowing to me that their trash filled deck and yard is better in their eyes than some native plants.
For all the people complaining about climate and eco harm. They want to destroy a fantastic way to keep the eco thriving. Some people have no common sense!
The people complaining about climate change and eco harm would be supportive of this woman. She is doing exactly what everyone should be doing to combat some of our environmental problems.
98% of prairies and almost as many of the wetlands (fens, marshes, mangroves, floodplains, etc) in the US have been destroyed. We fix the environmental crisis by replacing the unnecessary parts of privately owned lawns with the original (before European colonization) plant selections. Areas that do this effectively see massive jumps in property value because of the added value of wildlife and environmental stability. Also, as ticks do not form in maintained or managed landscapes, so an influential person must be very annoyed with the beauty and honor Jenae is cultivating.
If I wasn’t on the other side of the world I’d loop around and call out “I love your yard!” too! She’s amazing and thankfully the planet still has people like this in it. ❤
I ❤❤❤ Natural Gardens. And she is right, it invites birds and dragonflies and more positive bugs that control bad bugs like mosquitoes. Arent there bigger issues her neighbors could work on than a yard that doesnt look fake?🙄😇
It’s funny they use mosquitoes as an excuse that it’s bad but 99% of mosquitoes lay the eggs into a discarded coke can or a bit of rubbish that has accumulated a bit of water. In other words 99% of mosquitoes breed in human waste. If they’re that worried about mosquitoes being a problem they would clean up the cities and towns from all rubbish.
Three years ago, we found a wonderful landscape cooperative who replanted our small backyard in native plants. We absolutely love it and so do the pollinators. Our state, Maryland, passed a law allowing native-planted yards like ours. New York should do that also so that people like Ms DiNapoli won't keep being harassed.
@@cyan_oxy6734More to tell local governments who can’t mind their own damn business that they aren’t allowed to harass residents over it anymore, in my opinion anyway.
And she’s helping the ecosystem to keep pollinators alive that contribute to sustaining 75% of all flowering plants on Earth and 35% of our crops for food, versus her neighbors killing those pollinators and wildlife with pesticides and useless grass.
@liamwatson5125, Seems like the law needs to be heavily revisited then. Oh no, butterflies and song birds. What ever will we do?! 😱 Meanwhile actual social issues and crimes occuring in the background. Society is doomed, man. People lack critical thinking skills.
@@liamwatson5125shit, if it’s against the lag then the amount of times me and my mom have planted flowers in our front yard must be illegal too. Shut up, there isn’t any law in any other state that says that people aren’t allowed to garden on their own property.
@@THE_FALLEN_TROOPER Don’t be a nicehole. There is a gardening bylaw. It doesn’t matter if you own property or not, you’re going to introduce invasive species which permanently damage the ecosystem if you don’t follow the bylaw. They may be impossible to remove. If you plant anything unwanted without notifying anyone and it interferes with your neighbour’s backyard, you’re going to be prosecuted.
@@THE_FALLEN_TROOPER You two followed the bylaw. This resident did not. People in Catskill NY cannot build a natural garden in their yard unless they get permission and approval from the city to do so.
She's right; plainting native plants will attract more polinators, which will allow nature to thrive. This is one of the ways we can take to begin healing the climate, but for some reason these people want a boring flat yard. Ya'll leave her alone and let her fairy self heal nature!
@@sarahjo92 And I’ll tell you something else. If it wasn’t for politics, people wouldn’t be able to waste their time with horticulture, because there wouldn’t be any legislation.
I am a man, and my yard looks like yours. Listening to your story, reminds me of what my mother says to me, about my yard. Keep doing it. You're making the world a more beautiful place.
I wasn't at all surprised to hear that it's in Catskill, NY. I grew up about 25 minutes away from there. Over the past 20-or-so years we've had a lot of folks from NYC move into Catskill and the surrounding areas (including my town). This in of itself isn't a problem, except a large amount of them arrived, threw fits over the local farmers (especially dairy farmers), people with chickens in their yards, and people with bigger wilder gardens, who'd already been established there for generations. They'd hound the local town governments and harass to try to shut down the farms, gardens, home coops, etc. and I wouldn't be shocked if that's the situation this lady is dealing with here, too.
We’re experiencing this in SC with Ohio transplants right now. One actually got booed and laughed out of a small local gas station this weekend - with power outages and wifi down, they could only take cash and this fella was not happy. Thought he could just skip the line and yell at the attendant with a whole crowd of locals watching him.
I think people need to remember when you move to a place YOU do the integrating. You don’t force everyone who’s already there to conform to YOUR ideas. I didn’t move to the northwest to make it like Texas. I moved there to experience the lifestyle already there.
Yikes, I wonder what miserable childhoods create such people. Were they abused by adults into conformity growing up, and thus contempt for anyone who doesn't conform because that's a perceived threat?
This shows the complete ignorance of every code enforcer and neighbor. They clearly haven't a clue what they're looking at and they need to spend more time actually being outside and less time looking out their windows.
If it violates the code, it violates the code. You don't call it harassment when cops arrest criminals and protect you, do you? Laws and codes exist for a reason, to keep order and for everyone safety.
@@Aluzky.Irezuminot necessarily, alot of times. Code just means to keep things uniformed. Not all the time for safety. Sometimes being an outlier can be a bad thing. Even in a free nation. They just want you to conform and be like everyone else.
she's a wise, nurtiring woman, with the rare ability of thinking for herself, and taking action into what she thinks is the right thing to do, regardless of what "the other people think," because she doesn't live in fear like most people. i absolutely adore her and i think she's a role model. the world would be a better place if we were a little bit more like her. i also love my native plants. they make me, the bugs and the birds very very happy.
There was a time when all yards looked this way, and was even encouraged during the Wars to increase self-reliance in the country. It's where the term "Victory Garden" came from. The whole "man exerting its dominance over nature" thing is so passe and overrated.
@@gloriouslumiPart of me wonders if the grass lawns were pushed in order to prevent people from growing their own food, forcing them to buy it instead. Even one or two plants make a world of difference in my grocery budget.
@@Pedro-ew7nc Thinking does not lead to success. And I don’t consider her a role model because they threw the book at her. You shouldn’t adore lawbreakers.
I totally agree with this woman. People need to get over their 1950s “My lawn is better than yours” competition. This is so shallow. Pollinators need us. Let’s be decent and live in harmony with nature.
I’m 🇬🇧. And we have a natural garden. We get lots of different birds, I got some photos of a heron that visited a few times, and we see red kites, which angers crow family, and they fly up like bombers and attack the red kites we get bees, we get hundreds of grasshoppers, we get bats, and swallows, we get frogs and toads, we get foxes, we get squirrels, we get hedgehogs. We get so much pleasure, knowing that our home is a haven for all of those creatures! 💙 everyone should be growing plants and flowers, that encourage bees…The world needs the pollinating bees💙
Right? With the price of seeds and plants, and having to sometimes source far and wide to find the right Native species, it's not cheap. I'd be so furious if I were her. So insulted.
I'm also doing the same. I want to be part of the solution not part of the problem! Jenae and others, keep doing what you do and continue to help pollinators with your natural garden. 🙂
It's her property and she's not breaking any laws providing a garden for butterflies and bees to make honey plus I gotta support a fellow upstate new Yorker like myself a Buffalonian
I live in MA and am currently selling my house. In looking for a new house I look at news articles about towns that I may consider moving to. I took an interest in Catskill NY because of it's central location to my needs and the beauty of the mountains nearby. When looking at news stories about Catskill I came across this story and it killed dead any desire I may have had in relocating here.
This is completely dystopian how they're treating her and her yard. Like they don't have better things to focus on. I hope so badly that she wins her court case.
Good to know the court ruled in her favor. I don’t have a garden myself, but when I walk in my neighborhood and see a beautiful garden with lots of flowers and plants I always stop like there to look at the plants thinking “I love this yard!” like that truck driver too. 😂
Not just any “humans,” Democrats. They actually hate the environment. They only like the “green agenda” when they can ban things like gas stoves, get kick backs from EVs and wag their fingers at you while saying you’re the problem. Last I checked, NY was Communist Blue.
I have this area of my yard that had failed grass lawn, failed plantings of flowering shrubs, and finally I gave up and put down weedcloth and mulch. The whole area burst into bloom with poppies I had not planted. I said, "ok mother nature, so that is what should be here." I give them some occasional water and they come back every year. I smile.
She's dealing with a bunch of city transplants who wish to keep their idea of cookie cutter suburbia alive. I think what she's doing is very interesting and frankly, I like it. My former neighbors had a semi natural garden, semi being they pruned and weeded somewhat, but otherwise let wildflowers etc grow...
Not urban people. Urbanites mind their business. Typical of suburbanites to have HOAs, gated communities, and fear anyone doing something outside the norm.
We moved into a neighborhood that just had grass lawns, not even flower beds. You couldn't hear a single bird. We immediately started putting in a variety of plants. After a year, we had a family of bluebirds move in and return every year after that to raise their babies. Cardinals too and others that I don't know names for. Our yard had food for them and they came!
here in Sweden they encourage us to grow in our gardens. exceptions can be rental apartment and condominium. but if it's a patio that belongs to the apartment, you can grow in pots. I myself grow tomatoes on my balcony. and my brother, who has a house in a residential area in a smal town a mile from the center. grows apples, pears, cherries. plum. small greenhouse with tomatoes and grapes. latest project is flower field 15 x 40 feet for butterflies, bumblebees and bees. with a rich wildlife, deer with babies. badgers, squirrels and small birds.
We have a sign right by our front door from the National Wildlife Federation, showing that our property is a certified natural habitat. Yesterday (it happens once or twice a year) a young solicitor working for an exterminator knocked on the door, oblivious to his surroundings (as happens every time) attempting to convince my Wife to buy the service. As always, she directed him to read the sign and took the opportunity to educate him on the benefits of our balanced organic environment with an abundance healthy caterpillars, spiders and pollinators. I doubt it convinced him to immediately change careers, but hopefully the lesson will affect his future career choices.
I MUCH prefer natural gardens like this to a trimmed lawn. It's much better to have garden that supports a variety of species, and keeps eco-systems going, rather than something that may be "neat and tidy", but is practically a desert compared to a garden like hers.
She seems like a lovely, spirited women, a modern day "Snow White". I hope she doesn't let her nasty neighbors crush that spirit. I'm a fan of genuine, good people like her - we need more like her.
Sounds like the 'gated community' types moved into town and brought their home owners association mentality with them, and more importantly, took over control of town hall. I'm in the suburbs and we get field mice all the time, it comes with the territory. She's in a town that looks much more rural than the suburbs. Why would you make it look like the suburbs?
YES!!!!!! thats what i was thinking when theyre trying to tell her she is in danger in her home cuz of this, i immediately felt that they were jealous lol why cant they do their therapy and inner work already!?!?
Loool this reminds me of when HOA wrote a bunch of complaints to my mom cuz the tree in her front yard had some dead leaves at the top (mid July, in Vegas. 120+ degrees) I wrote them an email on her behalf stating that I spoke to an arborist and if HOA would just give her an extension until mid October, the problem will deal with itself. Something called “Fall” lolol It worked! Hahaha they gave her the extension 😂 it probably helped that I mentioned no gardener is willing to work on the top of a very tall tree in 120 degree weather. so ridiculous of them. I thought HOA was for egregious amounts of garbage and hoarders or horribly destroyed yard. Now it’s become knit picking and following the HOA boards taste. And all of it is extortion, under the threat of stealing your home.
Her yard sounds like a normal yard in Portland. That is one of the things I absolutely love about Portland, beautiful thriving yards with no mowed grass.
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You can spray your sidewalks and driveways and any area of your yard with pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides that poison the insects, wildlife, humans, get into the ground water, etc and that is just fine. But have a wild garden and you will be endlessly harassed and fined. Yup, makes total sense.
It's just nuts!!
Absolutely insane, isnt it? Dont forget all of the noise and pollution from leaf blowers etc.
USA USA USA !!!!!
@@Makrel94 I am a lover of this country and a patriot. This does not diminish that as I believe there is much to be proud of. I have the ability to both love the freedoms we have and want to preserve them and also see where we can improve at the Federal, State, and local levels.
@@kbc1883 USA! USA! USA!
Imagine being so possessed by societal norms that you’re taking a woman to court for wanting to frolic with nature on her own property. This is terrible.
I like how you said this!
@@suntiki33 I always wanted to speak legalese lol 😂 this is my closest attempt.
nah its not terrible it’s disgusting
Right! Strange for a society obsessed with private property. If they want "proper" lawns on everyone's yard, then make public natural space easily accessible and walkable for everyone.
I used to work for a lawn mowing customer service company. It’s ridiculous the things Americans have to deal with. Being fined hundred of dollars over a few inches of grass is normal all over. No wonder there’s so much mental illness, they probably get taxed for breathing the wrong air too.
What a waste of taxpayer dollars hassling this woman for her healthy garden!
cops being cops lol trying to bully her into submission! but this is a beautiful story otherwise 🦋 just shows how nature brings ppl together ❤ it is our direct connection to the divine! 💪😇
Yeah well it’s the “new normal”
Only in the US!
Ignorant folk who have lost connection with the Natural World. Ignore them and do what is in balance with Mother Nature
I bet HOA is gonna raise the rate on the neighborhood 😂 blame it on empty reserves or something. They’re petty and love extortion
This harassment is disgusting. If humans had any sense, what she is doing would be encouraged.
It's just the GOP come on now. Don't pretend now, you know who's doing this.
The crazy thing is, mowed lawns haven't always been in style. People used to love dandelions, wild flowers, etc. My neighbors use chemicals to keep their lawn green and weed free. How is that healthy for the environment?!?
Areas around marble falls Texas let their yards stay wild for the wildlife and deer
My neighbor put Round-Up on his lawn weekly..He died of bladder cancer at 44. Just maybe...???
Exactly. People want to save the bees? Get rid of your lawn and follow the leader of this lady 🏆 ❤
@@rridderbusch518 means nothing, my grandfather did the same for over 30 years and he didn't die till he was 85
I agree, if it's her property and it isn't spilling over into others and causing damage to others let her do what she wants, but I'll admit if she's attracting an abnormal amount of bee's and wasps and a neighbor is allergic it can cause issues but I'm sure they could find a way to make it work.
You can get your yard declared as a wildlife refuge. She should look into that. National Wildlife Foundation has a check list, online application and $20 annual membership fee. She can also check with her state Audubon or Native Plant Society. I think she's just missing a water feature. Surprised her attorneys didn't do that already.
That is a fantastic idea and I hope someone has already recommended it to her!
She shouldn’t have too
I did it two years ago, the town doesn’t care
@@Jenaesaisquoi They’ll care when the smack up against state and federal law. A federal nature preserve is nationally protected, once a area ha been declared a refuge they face jail time and fines if they damage and destroy it. You may wish to research the law that protects refuges, and speak to a solicitor educated in this area to assist you further.
Thanks for this comment I forget you can go farther to get the more specific designations.
This is how American "conformity" works.😄 Look like me. It's HER property and it's HER garden. LEAVE her alone.
Exactly
@@costidisaif your neighbor does that, mind your business. It's not your yard. Period. It's not your business. Period.
@@costidisa Good, then Asset firms won't be interested in homes in that nieghborhood and they won't end up pushing "locals" out of town.
@@costidisaBe quiet and step back in line inmate. The government didn't give you permission to speak.
Yup! If it was a nem they'd be doing a whole documentary about bro 😂
As an indigenous person I HATE American lawn culture. Let us use our yards for gardens. Let us use them for native wildflowers. Screw the HOA.
as an american with some indigenous blood in me, i hate it too!!
Wtfvfoes being "indigenous" have to do with anything? It isn't like any of the native tribes actually lived in "balance" with nature. Give up that myth, it isn't true, zero evidence for that assertion, as a matter of fact, there is ample evidence to the contrary. That said, I am fully with you on the disgust for the lawn garbage.
I have no indigenous ancestry, but I feel like a lawn or monoculture is an affront to nature, aka "God"
@AnEnemyAnemone1 agreed on all points. This "noble savage" myth has to stop. Far too much archeological evidence to the contrary
@@AnEnemyAnemone1you ought to recognize how blind your false sense of equality is. you ignore how native people have been literally forced to accept imposed cultures, like gardens, and naturally have a sense of separation from the dominant culture.
they're not separating themselves from everyone, they have always known a sense of separation and aggressive domination.
check your inherited power, hopefully you will have a better understanding of society as you grow
My neighbors complained to the city that my yard was overgrown. When an inspector came out to look at it, she ended up saying that my yard looks like it should be in a gardening magazine. She even put that in the report that was sent to the neighbor. I never heard the neighbors reaction.
👏 👏 👏 your inspector isn’t a robot
@@robertmatthews2009 Your neighbours have the right to do that. An overgrown yard can introduce unwanted insects and weeds.
@@liamwatson5125 womp womp, it's my yard. cry more.
People like you need to learn to mind your own business @@liamwatson5125
@@avelynn5976 Wow... So mature... --but seriously, they do have the right to do that, but the neighbors were obviously just jealous of his yard LOL! That's why they send out an inspector, instead of just believing them.
The state should be paying her and anyone else to create native gardens, supporting the local biosphere that gives/supports life for EVERYONE. We need nature education in every school. Seriously.
I'd also be curious to compare how much rainwater runoff comes off of her property to that of the neighbouring properties. Root penetration from her garden should be deeper, opening it up to greater water and carbon sequestration, and thus less susceptibility to drought and erosion. This important for a number of reasons, but in an urban context & with climate change exacerbated weather events in mind, gardens like hers will contribute greatly towards flooding prevention due to overwhelmed drainage systems never designed to cope with excessive levels of precipitation. From the city's perspective, that should mean lower maintenance costs and fewer repairs from damaged and clogged drainage systems and other public infrastructure.
@@pinkelephants1421but it doesn't look pretty......🤣😁
@@MellowWind You must be supervised when gardening by law.
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 👍😂😂
EXACTLY
Can't wait to work my whole life and buy a home, work to pay it off, while getting harassed by neighbors over a few plants 💀
All while your other neighbor’s house is a crack house.
Unfortunately that is the way of life! I have one neighbor who constantly calls code on me because I have livestock on my property. I am zoned residential agricultural and I have the right to have livestock on my property and grow the plants I choose to grow. I will continue to fight for my rights because when you don't you lose those rights! Besides I lived on this property for many more years than them. They knew what was here BEFORE THEM!
It’s not just neighbors, local government as well.
Plants, that, by the way, not only don't hurt anyone, but improve the ecosystem.
And pay property tax the rest of your life to keep it.
I greatly respect that Jenae was given a voice for this segment. Most of the story was given from her point of view.
$1000.00 a day penalty?? So typical of overbearing government officials. That sort of fine is excessive, way out of control
I bet the people in this small town complain about “big government taking away their freedoms” too
@@innocentnemesis3519 right before they report their neighbor for (Checks Subpeana) Having a natural garden.
It's generally Home Owners Associations that do this
@@Virjunior01 Yup, The Karen Brigade is LOCAL!
City officials. Nice try.
Why can’t some people just let others be happy! She right, this is better than most traditional gardens!!!!
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Petty little karens get a little power.
@@GothWolfRants ok goth
Because we like to take Tylenol for another man’s headache as a society .
So much for land of the free. The local government should be encouraging her and her garden style, not imposing any burdens on her.
This tick excuse is crappy. If her garden is bringing in birds that eat ticks then it’s a pretty balanced ecosystem and there should be no increase in ticks. On top of that it’s HER PROPERTY! She bought it! Doesn’t sound like she signed an HOA contract! Leave her alone!
It is a city and county code issue, and without having it look tended and rather it looks unkept, they can and will eventually force her to do something years down the road and fighting it always ends the same way.
IF YOU READ THIS, I hope she contacts her local horticulture and botanical societies. They can offer her some very valuable information on maintaining the garden while being in line with codes with simple things such as trimming the bushes and trees and use of garden decorations and walkways that clearly show the garden is cultivated and cared for.
NY is one of the harder places in towns to dictate what you can and cannot do with your property. No one wants their property values to go down and that's what she truly is fighting.
Research communism and why self sufficiency is bad. The state is your god now.
That's what I said. I work on a small forested patch landlocked inside of a suburban block. We already had deer, raccoon, gophers & turkey wander through here often, before & there were ticks here before. Ever since it took off, I haven't seen a single tick & I walk through there all the time. Mosquito population goes through cycles that keep them relatively under control too.
@@lumindina699 It doesn't always end the same. See Hermine Ricketts and Tom Carroll, in FL. My town in the midwest just made plans for Native and Pollinator gardens and is educating the citizens AND the code enforcement people. THIS is how change is made. The CODE and the antiquated views of "pretty" (read "I have lots of money") needs to change. Not Jenae.
@@eb9720actually it does.
So instead of them going to actual abandoned homes that look awful and fixing them up they want her to “fix” her garden!! DISGUSTING DISGRACE TRAITORS TO MOTHER EARTH!!!
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I hate this obsession with manicured lawns, it's artificial and boring. We should all be planting native plants. My mother is a master gardener and for the last 5 years she has been doing exactly what this woman is doing and it has paid off in so many ways.
And these “perfect lawns” also reveals the stupidity of the people who likes them. Look at all those water guzzling lawns being grown in the middle of deserts where water is already extremely scarce.
i have always loved front and backyards to have different plants and scenery, it adds so much to a house. some people do have preferences though and that's fine, but in this case, it was completely wrong to harass this woman over an issue that doesn't even exist. i really dislike how modern and minimalist everything is getting because it is so bland, boring and lacks color majority of the time
Agree completely. 💕
Great spirit & Wisdom
The aerial shots showed large properties with big trees and nothing else but lawn. It is boring and I think it's also lazy. No gardens but a large amount of land being used for minimal return to the environment. I think she should get a nicer fence though, that one is hideous and gives the property a Halloween feel.
Grass is the most inefficient, labor intensive, high polluting way to maintain a property. Lawn fertilizers, weed control, soil conditioners for lawn have such a negative consequence to soil and ground water.
Mono-cultural deserts, which support very little in terms of beneficial life.
i hear that...after spending hundreds of dollars on fertilizer to still get weeds it was a waste of money
Yes! I'm working to get rid of much of my grass. I can hardly afford the water bills anyway.
We have a lawn. We don't water it or fertilize it. If it grows, it grows, and we mow it. My husband loves to mow. I spent decades trying to figure out how to make my gardens pretty, beneficial, and easy to care for. And how to keep him from mowing everything. I gave up. Let him mow.
It is very unfair of him to not allow you space in the garden too
Ten years ago, I killed off my lawn with sheet mulching and several tons of top soil. Then I planted as many xeric native perennials, shrubs and trees as possible. The backyard is a vegetable garden, fruit trees, vines and shrubs. I live on a corner in the city and so far no complaints from the City and only one from a neighbor who was disappointed there was no lawn! Keep fighting the good fight, young lady!
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We did exactly the same thing 10 years ago. The front is for wildlife, the back is for vegetables, fruit, and enjoyment.
I will never understand this backlash, it’s well known that food forests and permaculture yield more food within less space and promotes biodiversity. You’re doing the world a favor, people need to mind their own business.
Neighbors don't own your plot of land. They need to mind their own business!!
@@Peoplespilates Really nosy old dude! Hates trees. SMH.
America: Home of free unless it bothers your neighbors
I don’t understand the suburbanite obsession with mowed lawns. Why is that considered more aesthetically pleasing than a healthy ecosystem?
Or the entire summer of ugly brown lawn
This is hardly a suburb of anything. Its a little American town in the middle of other small towns
It's all about making jobs. Rather than respecting homes. That's one of our biggest problems
Totally agree!, I have sheep they do most of the mowing for me!, most properties have a city easement, I never understood why home owners had to mowing that city should!
Reminds me of my neighbor who constantly complained about the squirrels but had a plastic squirrel among the "decorations" in the gravel coated patch of "garden" in her yard.
She's feeding the bees and butterflies!❤AND it's beautiful
Can't have that...
The judge : "I hereby condemn you to plant more flowers 🧑⚖"
Jenae : "Oh. Okay!🙋♀"
And the songbirds! 🎶
Hold tyrannical government accountable.
ACCOUNTABILITY! ACCOUNTABILITY! ACCOUNTABILITY!
and in turn they feed us!
Natural gardens use only a tiny fraction of the water a manicured lawn uses.
Manicured lawns use more water than any food crop.
Think about the amount of gasoline it takes to maintain a lawn in a single year.
Avocados being the exception. They match the water requirements of an equal sized patch of grass. I like avocados but I can’t in good conscience, eat them. A mature tree in California uses 91 litres per day in summer. 70 litres per fruit- more than 12 times the water per tomato.
Source California Avocado Commission and a few others.
@@clairedavison7719 I use over four times as much in an entire year just in drinking water... So, please don't eat me.... LOL!
The world needs more people like her this world would be such a better place she actually gets, understands, and respects the circle of life🙏🏾🥰 Thank you for actually contributing to humanity and trying to make a difference for the better. Unlike these people harassing sucking up taxpayers dollars even bothering to take her to court and for what? Doing something that’s right people need to be careful we living in the end of days and God sees all.
Let the girl build her garden. Most people don’t have the ability to see something’s potential. She clearly does. Trust nature man
We have a butterfly garden in our yard, plus I grow sunflower in our yard
@@melissagrant4178amazing! nature is the best:)
This is 100% about control.
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If you want to pick on someone, aim your gripes at Monsanto for wiping out much of the pollinator population. When I think of the Catskills, I think of wilderness & natural beauty! We need a .ot more wildflowers, not manicured lawns. Our food supply needs to support pollinators.
Exactly! I lived in the Catskills when i was a kid
Yeah I was rather surprised someplace like that doesn't know better. It's all the city folks wanting their 1950's esthetic.
They're too narrow minded and myopic to even know what you're talking about.
Anything that kills Mosquitoes.
Thank you
I'm in Sweden. Same with my evil neighbors. Telling me it is the law too keep the grass short. They can go to hell.
That would be my sign to go all in on the wild garden, make them regret making that comment lol 😂
We definitely do NOT have a law like that in Sweden. As long as things in your garden isn't hanging over the fence into their garden or onto the street, and as long as you're not keeping environmental hazards in your garden, it's none of their beeswax.
Same here. When we discovered tisle butterflies eating in the garden we let them be until they became pups. In prosess to become a butterfly. Having a short lawn all the time is just nonsence. Once a week barely. Cheers from Norway.
switch out lawn grass with other groundcover plants like clover and such
@@QueenMegaera It's the local association harassing them, not law enforcement.
My friend did this in Miami. I couldn't believe it, but his and only his house, attracts amazing singing birds, butterflies and all sorts of wonderful life.
"Why can't you just make your lawn look like everybody else's?" So many things wrong with this.
my answer "if I wanted that, I would have lived in an HOA." Second answer, "Do you want to pay for lawn care for a high maintenance yard? Lawn care in this area is about a weeks worth of groceries. So you DO agree its expensive and its better used for groceries. yeah this...this is low maintenance."
Because this garden is what happens when people do nothing. This is wild. She's just lazy.
Key word - everybody’s else, yeap, we must be like each other, no critical thinking, no your own life perspectives, no freedom, utopia!!!
@@DeuceGenius bro your will. 😅 clearly never seen a garden before 😂
Conform! Conform! Conform! This is America!
And she is not dumping chemicals into the soil which would contaminate the wells and water supply......
@@noellerilleau6529 But she’s introducing invasive species into the backyards and in the process destroying the ecosystem by eliminating native species.
@@noellerilleau6529 That doesn’t matter. It is against the HOA to build something that could potentially damage the ecosystem and increase climate change.
I hate people bruh, just let this poor lady grow her garden
That's America for you.
@@johnnycage3881 That’s *part* of America for you.
She will succeed. She’s got focus and skills-she’s the Caitlin Clark of gardening.
@@johnnycage3881 And America is trying to turn into North Korea.
@@Yowzoethis happens mostly in america, not anywhere else.
@@johnnycage3881 It’s the Whorticulturalist, not the horticulturalist.
She should be given an environmental tax break. Cause she's spending less time polluting the atmosphere with a lawnmower, weedeater, leaf blower, and machine noise. Promoting a natural environment.
If Catskill NY doesn't like her flower and herb garden for fear of crime, they could always arrest, prosecute and lock up criminals. Instead of trampling on her right to persue happiness.
It's New York, as a former New Yorker and current Tennessean they won't do that. We only go back to visit now.
@@eibrahim22 serious question: what's the appeal of New York? With the stuffs people be talking it's like a GTA Online public lobby. Why would anyone want to live there? Coming from a Florida man
@DanDaFreakinMan as a southerner (im from GA) who currently lives and works in Upstate NY, i have to say, as lomg as you dont go to NYC, or the outlying counties that have that... culture. Its amazing up here.
@@DanDaFreakinMan How's that home insurance working for you in hurricane season in FL? At least you get to silence a company's free speech down there, I guess.
They might as well tell everyone they have to have their lights on 24 hours a day Because a house with the lights on is less likely to be burglarized than a house with all the lights off.
My best friend has a natural garden here in Belgium.....It's so nice sitting outside without the bees and other insects bothering you because they have plenty of flowers and plants especially for them. She also had a little pond with fish,she added herself, but the frogs showed up by themself. there even was a hedgehog roaming around! What a true oasis!
Backyard eden sounds geweldig
"a little pond with fish,she added herself, but the frogs showed up by themself" YES!!! I see the same story on the @StefanoIaniro channel, this is unbelievable.
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The people causing a fuss for no reason have such a deep hatred and disdain for their own life that they have to try and ruin someone else's. So sad.
I agree like filming in public, some people don't understand the 1st amendment.
Correct
Wish I would have read the comments so I didn't echo this exact sentiment. This is as accurate as it gets.
No, they own property and won't to preserve its value.
THEY GET A SICK-KICK OUTTA RUINING OTHERS LIVES!!!!!
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This is the epitome of sickening. People will cry about climate, carbon, and the health of the environment and then be doing stuff like this. In a world gone mad, this woman is doing something right!
Yet they allow people to have yards overcome with animal feces, and garbage in towns. Let her have her garden. She’s helping the ecosystem.
I have a neighbor who constantly has trash all over their front and back yard and am picking up garbage from my own native pollinator gardens complain about my yard. It's absolutely mind blowing to me that their trash filled deck and yard is better in their eyes than some native plants.
@@Rhams3yin my previous address my neighbours yard was literally knee-deep in empty beer cans.
For all the people complaining about climate and eco harm. They want to destroy a fantastic way to keep the eco thriving. Some people have no common sense!
Yep. Some people can apparently breed tigers on their property, some can't grow a meadow. I'm confused.
The people complaining about climate change and eco harm would be supportive of this woman. She is doing exactly what everyone should be doing to combat some of our environmental problems.
they're from upstate new york, they're not bright
I'd sue the community for cutting the grass and destroying nature.
those aren't the same people
98% of prairies and almost as many of the wetlands (fens, marshes, mangroves, floodplains, etc) in the US have been destroyed. We fix the environmental crisis by replacing the unnecessary parts of privately owned lawns with the original (before European colonization) plant selections. Areas that do this effectively see massive jumps in property value because of the added value of wildlife and environmental stability. Also, as ticks do not form in maintained or managed landscapes, so an influential person must be very annoyed with the beauty and honor Jenae is cultivating.
Well said
This!
Exactly. Whoever used the "mice and ticks" excuse is just plain ignorant.
yes yes!!! i want to see a world of wild lawns with native flora and lots of birds and insects :-)
@isarose3136 yeah like, oh there's mice and tics? Yeah, welcome to being outside.
If I wasn’t on the other side of the world I’d loop around and call out “I love your yard!” too! She’s amazing and thankfully the planet still has people like this in it. ❤
Thank goodness for the support she received. And for the judge.
@@gamtngirl3655 Courts don’t give you any support.
I ❤❤❤ Natural Gardens. And she is right, it invites birds and dragonflies and more positive bugs that control bad bugs like mosquitoes. Arent there bigger issues her neighbors could work on than a yard that doesnt look fake?🙄😇
Yes, issues like the town’s population being severely uneducated. They need to work on that.
It’s funny they use mosquitoes as an excuse that it’s bad but 99% of mosquitoes lay the eggs into a discarded coke can or a bit of rubbish that has accumulated a bit of water. In other words 99% of mosquitoes breed in human waste. If they’re that worried about mosquitoes being a problem they would clean up the cities and towns from all rubbish.
@@Babesinthewood97😅😅😅
Three years ago, we found a wonderful landscape cooperative who replanted our small backyard in native plants. We absolutely love it and so do the pollinators. Our state, Maryland, passed a law allowing native-planted yards like ours. New York should do that also so that people like Ms DiNapoli won't keep being harassed.
Definitely! That's great!
They needed to pass a law for you to be able to plant native species in your lawn? I didn't know there's a Maryland Province in China.
@cyan_oxy6734 yeah lol, a law allowing native plants to exist where they have always been is wild haha.
@@poollife777 Thanks for the support -- obviously that person is a troll.
@@cyan_oxy6734More to tell local governments who can’t mind their own damn business that they aren’t allowed to harass residents over it anymore, in my opinion anyway.
It’s weird how they can’t fix a pothole on the road but they can harass citizens over mundane things.
Imagine being told you're not doing enough to contribute to global warming
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Exactly!
lol
....by those neighbors who don't even do anything.
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taking someone to court for a garden is insane. Meanwhile the deep root system of her plants probably contributes to cleaner water
And less air and soil pollution!❤
Deeper roots mean more drought tolerance too
@@Emiliapocalypse and more carbon sequestering
And she’s helping the ecosystem to keep pollinators alive that contribute to sustaining 75% of all flowering plants on Earth and 35% of our crops for food, versus her neighbors killing those pollinators and wildlife with pesticides and useless grass.
It’s her property! She has good intentions, it’s beautiful, it’s bringing beauty and good things. 🤷♀️
Doing gardening work without privileges is against the law.
@liamwatson5125, Seems like the law needs to be heavily revisited then. Oh no, butterflies and song birds. What ever will we do?! 😱 Meanwhile actual social issues and crimes occuring in the background. Society is doomed, man. People lack critical thinking skills.
@@liamwatson5125shit, if it’s against the lag then the amount of times me and my mom have planted flowers in our front yard must be illegal too.
Shut up, there isn’t any law in any other state that says that people aren’t allowed to garden on their own property.
@@THE_FALLEN_TROOPER Don’t be a nicehole. There is a gardening bylaw. It doesn’t matter if you own property or not, you’re going to introduce invasive species which permanently damage the ecosystem if you don’t follow the bylaw. They may be impossible to remove. If you plant anything unwanted without notifying anyone and it interferes with your neighbour’s backyard, you’re going to be prosecuted.
@@THE_FALLEN_TROOPER You two followed the bylaw. This resident did not. People in Catskill NY cannot build a natural garden in their yard unless they get permission and approval from the city to do so.
This is why it is so funny to me (as a Dutch person) that the USA thinks of themselves as the land of the free.
Self awareness is not their strong suit.
She's right; plainting native plants will attract more polinators, which will allow nature to thrive. This is one of the ways we can take to begin healing the climate, but for some reason these people want a boring flat yard. Ya'll leave her alone and let her fairy self heal nature!
Decades of commercial propaganda.
@@sarahjo92 And I’ll tell you something else. If it wasn’t for politics, people wouldn’t be able to waste their time with horticulture, because there wouldn’t be any legislation.
I am a man, and my yard looks like yours. Listening to your story, reminds me of what my mother says to me, about my yard. Keep doing it. You're making the world a more beautiful place.
I wasn't at all surprised to hear that it's in Catskill, NY. I grew up about 25 minutes away from there. Over the past 20-or-so years we've had a lot of folks from NYC move into Catskill and the surrounding areas (including my town). This in of itself isn't a problem, except a large amount of them arrived, threw fits over the local farmers (especially dairy farmers), people with chickens in their yards, and people with bigger wilder gardens, who'd already been established there for generations. They'd hound the local town governments and harass to try to shut down the farms, gardens, home coops, etc. and I wouldn't be shocked if that's the situation this lady is dealing with here, too.
We’re experiencing this in SC with Ohio transplants right now. One actually got booed and laughed out of a small local gas station this weekend - with power outages and wifi down, they could only take cash and this fella was not happy. Thought he could just skip the line and yell at the attendant with a whole crowd of locals watching him.
That’s the worst thing… to have a bunch of newcomers flood your area and only makes things worse for the people who have been living there forever.
Thank you for confirming my transient yuppie theory.
I think people need to remember when you move to a place YOU do the integrating. You don’t force everyone who’s already there to conform to YOUR ideas. I didn’t move to the northwest to make it like Texas. I moved there to experience the lifestyle already there.
Yikes, I wonder what miserable childhoods create such people. Were they abused by adults into conformity growing up, and thus contempt for anyone who doesn't conform because that's a perceived threat?
It’s her property, SHAME ON THE NEIGHBORS & OFFICIALS !!
Keep on growing your garden. 💐🌸🌹🌺🌻
This shows the complete ignorance of every code enforcer and neighbor. They clearly haven't a clue what they're looking at and they need to spend more time actually being outside and less time looking out their windows.
Let’s harass a woman about a garden! How pathetic.
If it violates the code, it violates the code. You don't call it harassment when cops arrest criminals and protect you, do you? Laws and codes exist for a reason, to keep order and for everyone safety.
@@Aluzky.Irezumii tought america was the land of the free
@@Aluzky.Irezuminot necessarily, alot of times. Code just means to keep things uniformed. Not all the time for safety. Sometimes being an outlier can be a bad thing. Even in a free nation. They just want you to conform and be like everyone else.
Maybe her town filled with Karens
@@Aluzky.Irezumicops can still harass criminals, you silly.
I wished we could see her garden more clearly
she's a wise, nurtiring woman, with the rare ability of thinking for herself, and taking action into what she thinks is the right thing to do, regardless of what "the other people think," because she doesn't live in fear like most people. i absolutely adore her and i think she's a role model. the world would be a better place if we were a little bit more like her.
i also love my native plants. they make me, the bugs and the birds very very happy.
Very well said ❤
There was a time when all yards looked this way, and was even encouraged during the Wars to increase self-reliance in the country. It's where the term "Victory Garden" came from. The whole "man exerting its dominance over nature" thing is so passe and overrated.
@@gloriouslumiPart of me wonders if the grass lawns were pushed in order to prevent people from growing their own food, forcing them to buy it instead. Even one or two plants make a world of difference in my grocery budget.
@@Pedro-ew7nc legendary Wisdom & skills
@@Pedro-ew7nc Thinking does not lead to success. And I don’t consider her a role model because they threw the book at her. You shouldn’t adore lawbreakers.
So small towns and HOA's seem more and more like totalitarian states than a thriving democratic society.
We're a constitutional republic so that could explain that
Or the mafia. The code enforcer at (1:45) sounds like he's running a protection racket.
@@memesbyme710 A Republic is a form of democracy. I don't understand why people think this is such a "gotcha" retort.
@@lucindabreeding The fox told them. It must be true.
how else is monsanto going to make $$$$$?
I totally agree with this woman. People need to get over their 1950s “My lawn is better than yours” competition. This is so shallow. Pollinators need us. Let’s be decent and live in harmony with nature.
I’m 🇬🇧. And we have a natural garden. We get lots of different birds, I got some photos of a heron that visited a few times, and we see red kites, which angers crow family, and they fly up like bombers and attack the red kites we get bees, we get hundreds of grasshoppers, we get bats, and swallows, we get frogs and toads, we get foxes, we get squirrels, we get hedgehogs.
We get so much pleasure, knowing that our home is a haven for all of those creatures!
💙 everyone should be growing plants and flowers, that encourage bees…The world needs the pollinating bees💙
Im doing the same. My yard has been filled with pollinator plants and hasn't been cheap.
Lady, continue doing what you're doing. Fight ignorance!!!!
Right? With the price of seeds and plants, and having to sometimes source far and wide to find the right Native species, it's not cheap. I'd be so furious if I were her. So insulted.
I'm also doing the same. I want to be part of the solution not part of the problem! Jenae and others, keep doing what you do and continue to help pollinators with your natural garden. 🙂
We turned 3/4 of our yard into pollinator gardens and yes it cost us quite a bit of money and worth every penny.
I'm so proud of her for stepping up and advocating for her natural yard! Bringing back native plants and inviting in more biodiversity is great. ❤😊
Yall let this woman keep her garden ❤
2A Guard your Garden all day!
@@BajatheChickenManThat’s what I’m saying!
This brought so much tears to my eyes.
Humans make or mar the world; and this woman is an amazing soul. 👏🏽🥳💐
Astounding that people wouldn’t love this. Why is something like this in court at all? Such a waste of money.
It's disgusting that she is facing trouble over this, for wanting to have a yard that isn't actively environmentally destructive.
But an asphalt parking lot is ok?
Only if you pave paradise before you put up that parking lot 😅 and it seems that what they want
Only if you pave paradise before you put up that parking lot 😅 and it seems like that’s what they want
Humanity needs to lighten up. We now know that her cultivated garden is way better than mowed lawn and supports the ecosystem that KEEP US ALIVE
Dear America, this is too much. She’s minding her own business cultivating nature. Please leave people alone to fend their garden 🪷🐝
It's her property and she's not breaking any laws providing a garden for butterflies and bees to make honey plus I gotta support a fellow upstate new Yorker like myself a Buffalonian
I live in MA and am currently selling my house. In looking for a new house I look at news articles about towns that I may consider moving to. I took an interest in Catskill NY because of it's central location to my needs and the beauty of the mountains nearby. When looking at news stories about Catskill I came across this story and it killed dead any desire I may have had in relocating here.
exactly -
I grew up in the Catskills and I can guarantee we do not accept that community. I love her garden and WHO CARES!
Same here. Look whats going on in North Adams, Mass. Clear cutting trees near a reservoir.
This is completely dystopian how they're treating her and her yard. Like they don't have better things to focus on. I hope so badly that she wins her court case.
Good to know the court ruled in her favor. I don’t have a garden myself, but when I walk in my neighborhood and see a beautiful garden with lots of flowers and plants I always stop like there to look at the plants thinking “I love this yard!” like that truck driver too. 😂
"Oh look a healthy piece of land. Let's find out how we can destroy it!"
- Humans, always
Colonizers
Not just any “humans,” Democrats. They actually hate the environment. They only like the “green agenda” when they can ban things like gas stoves, get kick backs from EVs and wag their fingers at you while saying you’re the problem. Last I checked, NY was Communist Blue.
Unless it’s an HOA, I don’t hear about this happening in Texas or Florida.
Glad to hear that everyday people support her "style" of gardening beyond what the city thinks!
Lawns should be illegal and never be allowed anywhere.
I have this area of my yard that had failed grass lawn, failed plantings of flowering shrubs, and finally I gave up and put down weedcloth and mulch. The whole area burst into bloom with poppies I had not planted. I said, "ok mother nature, so that is what should be here." I give them some occasional water and they come back every year. I smile.
Lovely!!
Perfect! Nature knows the right way to go
She's dealing with a bunch of city transplants who wish to keep their idea of cookie cutter suburbia alive. I think what she's doing is very interesting and frankly, I like it. My former neighbors had a semi natural garden, semi being they pruned and weeded somewhat, but otherwise let wildflowers etc grow...
U could b right. Reminds me of prople buying houses in nightlife 😊areas , like near popular bars , and then complaining about noise
Not urban people. Urbanites mind their business. Typical of suburbanites to have HOAs, gated communities, and fear anyone doing something outside the norm.
We moved into a neighborhood that just had grass lawns, not even flower beds. You couldn't hear a single bird. We immediately started putting in a variety of plants. After a year, we had a family of bluebirds move in and return every year after that to raise their babies. Cardinals too and others that I don't know names for. Our yard had food for them and they came!
Such a beautiful garden!! We need to be more like this woman. Thank you for helping our home be the way it should be
Thank you for being you!! Keep doing great things for the world. I support you. Sincerely, Dr Michael Irvin
here in Sweden they encourage us to grow in our gardens. exceptions can be rental apartment and condominium. but if it's a patio that belongs to the apartment, you can grow in pots. I myself grow tomatoes on my balcony. and my brother, who has a house in a residential area in a smal town a mile from the center. grows apples, pears, cherries. plum. small greenhouse with tomatoes and grapes. latest project is flower field 15 x 40 feet for butterflies, bumblebees and bees. with a rich wildlife, deer with babies. badgers, squirrels and small birds.
We have a sign right by our front door from the National Wildlife Federation, showing that our property is a certified natural habitat. Yesterday (it happens once or twice a year) a young solicitor working for an exterminator knocked on the door, oblivious to his surroundings (as happens every time) attempting to convince my Wife to buy the service. As always, she directed him to read the sign and took the opportunity to educate him on the benefits of our balanced organic environment with an abundance healthy caterpillars, spiders and pollinators. I doubt it convinced him to immediately change careers, but hopefully the lesson will affect his future career choices.
Surprised how well spoken she is. It is very good that such a person got to champion this.
I MUCH prefer natural gardens like this to a trimmed lawn. It's much better to have garden that supports a variety of species, and keeps eco-systems going, rather than something that may be "neat and tidy", but is practically a desert compared to a garden like hers.
She seems like a lovely, spirited women, a modern day "Snow White". I hope she doesn't let her nasty neighbors crush that spirit. I'm a fan of genuine, good people like her - we need more like her.
Middle finger to the civil servants
And now she has grounds to countersue for harassment and attempting to deprive her of her rights.
WoW people will do anything to cause grief 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Supporting from Germany. Natural and permaculture gardening is so important ❤
Sounds like the 'gated community' types moved into town and brought their home owners association mentality with them, and more importantly, took over control of town hall. I'm in the suburbs and we get field mice all the time, it comes with the territory. She's in a town that looks much more rural than the suburbs. Why would you make it look like the suburbs?
Its beautiful. To know that your house is a place that exists, etched into the minds of all the local animals! Fabulous 🤩
god forbid someone not pollute their neighborhood to hell and back trying to prevent flowers from blooming. what has the country come to?
But it's on her property! Damn Karens....
It looks beautiful ❤
The other yards look boring and all the same.
All the people sweating, mowing twice a week, spraying Monsanto be jealous
YES!!!!!! thats what i was thinking when theyre trying to tell her she is in danger in her home cuz of this, i immediately felt that they were jealous lol why cant they do their therapy and inner work already!?!?
@@Waterharmony3 she makes them question their happiness by not keeping up with the joneses
You’re doing great work for Mother Nature. Keep it up! God bless you for inspiring other people!
Love her yard! Leave her alone and let her have her yard how she wants and that it WAY MORE healthy for an ecosystem
Loool this reminds me of when HOA wrote a bunch of complaints to my mom cuz the tree in her front yard had some dead leaves at the top (mid July, in Vegas. 120+ degrees) I wrote them an email on her behalf stating that I spoke to an arborist and if HOA would just give her an extension until mid October, the problem will deal with itself. Something called “Fall” lolol
It worked! Hahaha they gave her the extension 😂 it probably helped that I mentioned no gardener is willing to work on the top of a very tall tree in 120 degree weather. so ridiculous of them. I thought HOA was for egregious amounts of garbage and hoarders or horribly destroyed yard. Now it’s become knit picking and following the HOA boards taste. And all of it is extortion, under the threat of stealing your home.
*nit picking
@@ferretyluv *nitpicking 😂
@@annehedonia156 ur both nitpicking me now!!!
** also just wasting ur time. That was clearly just spell check changing it…
HOA is garbage
Her yard sounds like a normal yard in Portland. That is one of the things I absolutely love about Portland, beautiful thriving yards with no mowed grass.
I LOVE Oregon, I was just in Rockaway Beach with my son on vacation. I’d love to live there!
Taking someone to court for having a natural garden? ridiculous!!!
Is beautiful ❤ I love it. Shame on this authorities an neighbors they only show their ignorance