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Interactive and in-depth, these live and recorded sessions empower with fresh ideas and motivating conversation.
It’s out of place and yet aggressively cultivated. Laws have been written to maintain it at the expense of biodiversity and greater ecosystem function. Lawn is ingrained in suburban and urban psyche as the ideal, default landscape. It’s easy to denigrate not because it makes those concerned about habitat, climate, and health feel better, but because it’s ubiquitous as wall-to-wall carpeting versus having a design purpose. There’s no war on lawn — there’s a war on nature. Lawns don’t welcome us, they alienate us from the planet. Once heralded as a great democratizer in a vast urban park, heavily-managed, resource-intensive lawn is what separates us from one another — a vast moat of nothingness that offers little to the community. We can do better, rethink pretty, and curate healthier neighborhoods via designed, artful habitat landscapes. Lawn is out of place. Lawn is a weed.
Benjamin Vogt has presented to arboretums, botanical gardens, nature centers, multi-million dollar corporations, master gardener symposiums, home and garden shows, city parks and rec, and regional native plant societies. With a focus on accessible and equitable online lectures that reduce our carbon footprint, Benjamin is eager to share the empowering potential of lawn-to-meadow conversions in suburbia. And dad jokes.
Start by filling out a contact form and setting up a site visit to discuss your landscape transformation.
We design with clients locally in and around both Lincoln and Omaha. We also engage in long-distance design with motivated DIY clients who need an action plan, coordinated plant delivery, and live video consulting during install.
“Working with Benjamin was fantastic! He helped us convert our backyard to native prairie. He was always responsive, well organized, and reliable. Would happily work with him again and highly recommend him for your projects."
