Fire the Landscaper

How Landscapers, HOAs, and Cultural Norms Are Poisoning Our Properties

By: Phil M. Williams

Narrated by: Tristan Wright, GraceWright Productions

Fire the Landscaper is a biting critique of current landscape design and maintenance practices. The audiobook explores the health risks, cultural biases, origins, and the insults to Mother Nature caused by our culturally backed, legally enforced obsession with artificial representations of nature.

The author, Phil Williams, is a former owner of a successful lawn and landscape company. He exposes the waste, fraud, and downright ridiculousness of an industry focused solely on aesthetics. Through his subsequent training as a permaculture designer, he offers many practical solutions aligned with nature to increase the health and productivity of landscapes, and the world by extension, while simultaneously reducing the workload of upkeep.

©2015 Phil M. Williams (P)2018 Phil M. Williams

Breath of Fresh Air-

This book was a breath of fresh air. In the spring of 2017, I was preparing to weed and feed my lawn which was full of clovers and some dandelions. I asked myself, why are you trying to kill them when you don’t even know why they’re there? That question rang like a church bell on the inside of me like so many other things had been of late. I immediately stopped what I was doing and searched for the purpose of clovers and dandelions. Needless to say, I didn’t weed and feed that day and haven’t since. I’ve been on a journey of listening and learning and this book has given me hope for a return to a simple life. One day and one step at a time. Thank you!

Engaging, enraging, and inspiring

This was an excellent introduction to the topic, full of enraging but validating information for anyone who knows in their heart that the way most of us live isn't how we're supposed to be living. I really enjoyed this and learned a ton.

An Environmental Call to Arms!

Very informative, even as it makes an emotional appeal to stop poisoning our very homes. Most disturbing yet important is the analysis of HOAs and governmental assaults on our freedom to choose to live more ecologically responsibly. They literally legally imposed environmental destruction, and that heavy-handed "Big Brother" has only gotten worse in recent years.

Great Intro to Sustainability Despite Norms

Funny, biting, and educational tour through the bad habits, stupid laws, and blinkered thinking that has enforced conforming to unhealthy aesthetics over celebrating and nurturing nature's bounty.

Wonderful!

I finished this book in one sitting. I started it while walking my dog at the park and finished it at home. I love everything about the book. We should all take heed to the writer's advice before it is too late! I learned so much from this book and hope to use that knowledge to make our world a better place.