"Your Lawn Is a Colonial Inheritance" - Braiding Sweetgrass Author Challenges YOU #LessLawnMoreLife

Robin Wall Kimmerer -- botanist, MacArthur Fellow, and author of Braiding Sweetgrass -- makes the case that the American lawn is a colonial inheritance we never chose, and that 67 million acres of residential land could become pollinator sanctuaries, carbon sinks, and interspecies neighborhoods instead. Recorded as the keynote for the 2026 Less Lawn More Life Challenge, a free 12-week program helping people turn their yards into native habitat. 23,000+ households have already joined. The challenge is self-paced -- join anytime and you'll start at Challenge 1! 🌱 JOIN THE FREE CHALLENGE Sign up → https://lesslawnmorelife.com Get your Wildr Score (5-min yard health quiz) → https://score.planitwild.com Download Wildr Places → https://www.joinwildr.com ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome & the story of Less Lawn More Life 1:45 Less Lawn More Life partners 3:08 Agenda & housekeeping 4:34 Introducing Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer 6:24 Robin's keynote begins -- a Potawatomi greeting 8:39 The Dish With One Spoon: an ancient sustainability treaty 11:13 "What does the Earth ask of us?" 13:40 Gifts, responsibility, and reciprocity 16:44 "How can we be medicine for the Earth?" 20:12 Plants already know what to do about climate change 24:06 67 million acres: what if we transformed residential land? 30:01 Why lawns are a colonial inheritance 31:53 "Declare independence from your lawn" 32:30 Joy and justice: the interspecies neighborhood 33:40 Q&A: Does scale matter? (Even one pot counts) 36:20 Q&A: How to deal with HOAs and resistant neighbors 37:45 Q&A: Advice for nervous beginners -- "have faith in photosynthesis" 39:24 The firefly story 43:22 What Robin is planting this spring 45:27 How the 12-week challenge works 48:04 Challenge 1 preview: Get your Wildr Score with Farmer Nick 📚 ROBIN'S BOOKS → https://bookshop.org/lists/robin-wall... Braiding Sweetgrass The Serviceberry Bud Finds Her Gift (children's book) 🔗 PARTNERS & RESOURCES Plant Baby Plant (Robin's organization) → https://plantbabyplant.com/ Homegrown National Park → https://homegrownnationalpark.org Wild Ones → https://wildones.org Plan it Wild → https://planitwild.com #RobinWallKimmerer #BraidingSweetgrass #NativePlants #Rewilding #LessLawnMoreLife #NativeGarden #Pollinators #IndigenousWisdom #ClimateAction #YardHabitat #DougTallamy #NativePlantGarden