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Ha, your final result looks like a "vacant lot" compared to all your neighbors' houses. Everybody had lawns in the eighties, and loads of birds and bugs, too. Well, the lawns might have been mostly weeds. They still looked good when mowed. Just saying.

23:00 Don't mow garden down in the fall, mow down in Spring.

21:06 For clay soil, a mixing drill and a solid steel three inch auger bit to make planting holes.

Everything growing in my yard = grows in disturbed soil.

Thank you for this, Benjamin. I'm in the Hudson Valley (NY) so had to edit as I followed along, but so, so many wonderful wildflowers to choose from!

I want to do something like this in our back yard. Does it need to be mowed down in the spring? I worry about hurting insect eggs.

Really appreciate the presentation aspect of this video. It really is important. Thank you.

Wow amazing difference and wildlife magnet. What a shame your neighbours aren't catching on. Well done being the difference. I really enjoyed the progression pictures. Thank you.

Maybe more vids

why did you mow it down in spring? My yard has been chemical free for 22 years and is all natural but for a little patch in front and 1 side. Love the bugs and flowers and birdsong. To me a yard should not be overly designed because if the owner ever moves the yard often goes into disuse, looks like hell, and gets mowed down and resodded to grass by a trump republican.

Love your crusade for more natural spaces! I'm surprised that you advocate for chemical spray to kill grass because chemicals are, well, toxic to more than just the grass. Can you please explain?

My neighbor has 2 acres of land, fully covered with turf grass. He has been mowing every day of growing season for the last 30 years!! His riding lawn mower is louder than a big old tractor!! He ruins our evenings with noise pollution and his evenings with pointless activity.

going native feels nice

ben have you yourself tested spraying vs other techniques for lawn removal? doesn’t really make any sense to use chemicals that smart countries are banning: you're using all the right language of environmental consciousness but then herbicide. what?! argument for it being better lacks any material positive attributes and ignores destructive real-world aspects. success rate of actually killing off a ton of grass is low; it’s meant to kill weeds not sod type. herbicide for killing grass… is that even a thing - if not round up - i’m not sure. i don’t think so for the sod kind; it’s too robust? so ya have to use glyphosate (round up). stuff like that is gonna harm microbiology i tend to think, also birds snd honey bees worms/ insects. you’d need tons of it too. it’s absolutely ruthless! and then you still have dead grass if it even works which could be ok if your soil isn’t ruined as in severely compacted from being lawn but that’s not a thing. it’s usually very compacted. removal of sod disrupting weed seeds is not a major detriment. that soil is under lawn is garbage from over watering, weird pH from fertilizer high in N, non biodiversity etc and i feel like disruption in that context is fine (unless several inches of topsoil is brought in which is usually extravagant and just as dead), tilling once after manual shovel removal seems like best choice bc if microbiology is marred from this vs usage of the stronger chemicals that kill stuff i think reoccurrence of bio wellbeing would resume faster if non chemical and dead grass wad was not in the picture. other organic more diverse material like compost could be instead introduced. logs, and rocks too that promote mini life! fertility in animals including humans is going down bc of chemicals - it gets in water even in north pole. not saying it’s the same chemicals - i’m not super savvy on say pesticide vs round up but if both are carcinogenic then i do know that that industry reflects non understating or caring about environment/ecology compared to big profit (if Bayer and Monsanto are involved - and they are - then it’s an easy no)! round up / glyphosate is banned in 33 counties…for being carcinogenic so cancer and tumors etc. and obvious eco death / damage. Monsanto has tried to influence scientific study downplaying it’s ill health effects. using ecosystem and biodiversity in same sentence as herbicide usage is complete nonsense?c

Yes!! I befriended a wasp colony in my front yard. They know faces - say hi and don't rustle their nest, they won't touch you!

Wonderful perfect most rewatched informative presentation, LOVE THIS!!!!

How do you go from overgrown thickets to prairie landscaping. We are in Pittsburgh. We have just under 3 acres.

Glyphosphate!!! Bad stuff. Ends do not justify the means when it means putting something toxic into the soil

My city just tried no mow may for one year and cancelled it! BUT here in Minnesota our glorious leaders allow us have a native prairie lawn!!!! I'm setting up a greenhouse next spring just to get as many flats of native plants going as possible and to spread the love BAHAHAHAHA

I love your talks, thank you for the honesty and truth!

Excellent video!!!

My wife is of the lawn cult in America, they are rabidly committed to their own tiny flat,fake green, water wasting, energy wasting, imitation rich Englishman’s estate. I cannot budge her off of this poisonous fantasy and even if I divorced her and moved out over this issue she would happily go on worshipping lawn, wasting horrific amounts of water here in the southern desert. Her excuse is that meadow is “so ugly and buggy”. Help!

OTTAWA CANADA WE HAVE TO MOWING OUR FRONT LAWNS, ITS A WRONG LAW, SHAME

Amazing!!

How beautiful. Winter interest and useful.

Wowww

Great video. Thank you for this wealth of information & your time.

I wish grass lawns would become a thing of the past. So bad for the environment and wildlife. Just make the whole thing a wildflower lawn. Do you have an HOA? I know certain entities won’t allow you to do this because it can lower the value of neighborhood homes. Do they have rules or fees for this sort of thing?

We are from St. Joseph Missouri. We love this video would we be able to use this video in a court case about our prairie. Please and thank you for your time ❤

Oh my neighbors are going to be upset if I make our front lawn look like the backyard. Oh well.

Why would you use tropical milkweed? I can think of quite a few reasons. It's annual here so it's not gonna send up runners and seeds don't overwinter and it blooms year one profusely unlike natives. You need to remember people garden for all kinds of reasons and in all kinds of conditions.

Where can I find out the sociability of a plant?

That looks terrible.

Thank you. It pisses me off too

Great, the pathetic American grass yard must go. Wildlife habitat is beautiful

How do you deal with neighbours or bylaw enforcement thinking you have overgrown grass? Especially as a grass replacement.

I live in a town that gets 17 inches of rain annually and is naturally prairie land but most of our citizens couldn't tell ya the difference in a zero-scape and a xericsape. They all have bluegrass yards with zone 7 plants in a zone 6 USDA zone Your beautiful landscape would immediately get me a code violation letter with a fine.

My opinion year two-four looked good wild but not unkept thereafter it looked too unkept and almost 'abandoned house' look for my taste. I'd suggest doing this in the backyard first.

If done well it looks amazing if done poorly it just looks messy and unkept ... and if your neighbors move can actually lower their resale value ... I am a firm believer of planting natives and planting closely HOWEVER I am also a firm believer of being considerate of your neighbors ... Frankly I plant some plants I rarely see so my property looks attractive from the viewpoint of my neighbors. It's great to be ecological but please also be nice.

I just got this pushed to me - and just so great. Will share all around. Great info and ideas

Really appreciate your response. If a sod cutter is used, can the sod be flipped over and planted into?

Can burning be used as a site prep to get rid of turf before sowing native seeds? If so, what time of year for burn? What other steps? Really hope you can answer this for me! Thank you!

Very cool, but I feel like this would take the entire neighborhood to look good. Otherwise it looks like an abandoned house.

What chemical would you use for spray killing a lawn?

Never understand why you don’t move out to the country. Noticed how you conveniently only show close up shots so you don’t see how ridiculous it looks driving thru the neighborhood - but hey you do you. What’s next a thatched roof to do away with those nasty asphalt shingles?

I decided to pursue this path out of frustration with the cost of hiring someone to mow. Coming out of winter it was good timing. I was surprised to discover this subculture of meadow cultivators. In a short space of time my property is now boasting ground covers that flower and attract bees, and I'm able to use my push mower (not power), for a few paths within my new meadow inspired landscape.

Amazing examples!!!

We need to find ways to to make the economics work to do this conversion.