California has been experience bad drought for four years now. Watering the lawn specifically the use of automatic sprinklers are discouraged and in some places, banned. If your front lawn is still green, then neighbors would give you a bad stare and might even report to the authorities that you’re wasting water.
Before, if you’re front lawn is kept unkempt and your grass is turning yellow, they would report that you are not maintaining your garden. Bawal yun, ngayon, yellow grass is the fashion.
The old ways in Binangonan should be practiced in times like these. Aileen and Bong have a big palanggana on their kitchen sink to collect water from the faucet. After soaping the dishes, that’s already clean water that just flows down the drain. If you collect that to water your plants, you save water, money and mother earth.
Nung maliit ako, yung pinaghugasan ng bigas, iniipon din and isinasaboy sa halaman.
E———–“Ano ito?”
A———–“Pinaghugan ng bigas, ididilig ko sa halaman. Di ba pampataba yan?”
E———–“Ngayon ko lang narinig yan”.
A———–“Ganyan sa Binangonan. Mas mabilis lumago yung halaman”.
E———–“I didn’t know that. That’s new”.
