Photo: Heiko Prigge

Arlie Middlebrook isn't the only one waging war on the lawn. Artist Fritz Haeg has been traversing the U.S. (and he's going international, the project pictured is in London and was comissioned by The Tate Modern) transforming front lawns into vegetable gardens. He's started the foundation Edible Estates

His manifesto--and yes, he calls it a manifesto, states:

"Edible Estates is an attack on the American front lawn and everything it has come to represent.

Edible Estates reconciles issues of global food production and urbanized land use with the modest gesture of a domestic garden.

Edible Estates is an ongoing series of projects to replace the American front lawn with edible garden landscapes responsive to culture, climate, context and people.

Edible Estates is a practical food producing initiative, a place-responsive landscape design proposal, a scientific horticultural experiment, a conceptual land-art project, a defiant political statement, a community out-reach program and an act of radical gardening."

"An act of radical gardening"...Don't know about you, but a phrase like that kind of makes me weak in knees.