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Been trying to actively embrace what I understand as an Anishnaabe perspective of the “weeds/invasives” as displaced “kin” of the “desired plants”. Example article: https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.dartmouth.edu/dist/9/52/files/2019/09/Reo_Ogden-Anishnaabe-Aki_2018.pdf

In my experience the“desired” prairie plants do a good enough job booting out their “relatives” who have overstayed their welcome, but I’ll help remove the more aggressive ones (bindweed, etc). Even a “desired” plant might get dug up if it’s crowding out everything around it (looking at you, monarda…), but it usually gets rehomed into another patch of garden or with a neighbor. “Noxious weeds” are pulled up but then left in the sun to fully die.

But in general, 99% of the time, the garden takes care of its self- after all it’s been doing this for millennia - as long as the balance isn’t too out of whack. So on that note too, I try to get neighbors (generally defined as anyone who passes the intersection by us) to take seeds/split perennials/cuttings and use them to replace lawns. Otherwise it’s the niche created by a lawn culture which allows “weeds” to thrive and propagate