Connecting to nature with native plants

Landscaping with native plants has encouraged gardeners from the Midwest and beyond to embark on a profound scientific, ecological, and emotional partnership with nature. Benjamin Vogt shares his expertise with prairie plants in a richly photographed guide aimed at gardeners and homeowners, making big ideas about design approachable and actionable. Step-by-step blueprints point readers to plant communities that not only support wildlife and please the eye but that rethink traditional planting and maintenance. Additionally, Vogt provides insider information on plant sourcing, garden tools, and working with city ordinances. This book will be an invaluable reference in sustainable garden design for those wanting both beautiful and functional landscapes.

Easy to use and illustrated with over 150 color photos, Prairie Up is a practical guide to artfully reviving diversity and wildness in our communities.

Received Honorable Mention from the AHS Book Awards (American Horticultural Society)

In a time of climate change and mass extinction, how we garden matters more than ever.

An outstanding and deeply passionate book. -Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals

Plenty of books tell home gardeners and professional landscape designers how to garden sustainably, what plants to use, and what resources to explore. Yet few examine why our urban wildlife gardens matter so much-not just for ourselves, but for the larger human and animal communities.

Our landscapes push aside wildlife and in turn diminish our genetically programmed love for wildness. How can we get ourselves back into balance through gardens, to speak life's language and learn from other species?

Benjamin Vogt addresses why we need a new garden ethic, and why we urgently need wildness in our daily lives-lives sequestered in buildings surrounded by monocultures of lawn and concrete that significantly harm our physical and mental health. He examines the psychological issues around climate change and mass extinction as a way to understand how we are short-circuiting our response to global crises, especially by not growing native plants in our gardens. Simply put, environmentalism is not political; it's social justice for all species marginalized today and for those facing extinction tomorrow. By thinking deeply and honestly about our built landscapes, we can create a compassionate activism that connects us more profoundly to nature and to one another.

Peeling off sheets of skin from a sunburned back. Visiting five nurseries and spending $1,000 in an afternoon. Raising 200 monarch butterflies. Hearing the wing beats of geese thirty feet overhead at sunset. How one piece of mulch can make all the difference. These are the stories of Benjamin Vogt's 1,500 foot native prairie garden over the course of three years. After a small patio garden at his last home teases him into avid tinkering, the blank canvas of his new marriage and quarter acre lot prove to be a rich place full of delight, anguish, and rapture in all four seasons. Full of lyrical, humorous, and botanical short essays, SLEEP, CREEP, LEAP will leave you inspired to sit a while with your plants, noticing how the smallest events become the largest-and how the garden brings us down to earth so that we can come home to our lives.

Afterimage moves from the southern to northern Plains and the eastern Midwest, where the natural world calls out through deep lakes and dark woods, and finally through transient moments framed by gardens: a butterfly nectaring on a coneflower, planting lavender with his future wife, or autumn leaves crashing against a morning window. In a rich array of forms and evocative imagery, the poems in Afterimage reach through prairie history until grass becomes skin, and light becomes shadow.

Desperate. Battered. Defiant.

Jason Pinder is stuck in a never-ending nightmare full of violence, loss, and torment. With Chloe abducted, life has become unbearable. After a frantic search, the team tracks her down to a super-fortress in Boston. Inside, Jason learns of yet another truly twisted doomsday plot manifested by Mills' madness - a ploy so sickening it'll drive those left in Lazarus utterly insane.

The dystopian Revolt trilogy concludes with this final novel. The supreme government-controlled states will have to decide to stand against their tyrannical president or cave to his insane ambition to rule the world of a perfect immortal race. Jason and what is left of Lazarus is all that stand in the way of President Mills' plot.

Die CityFarm Augsburg ist gewachsen Benjamin Vogt und seine Frau Ildik haben ihren Traum wahrgemacht. Der ehrenamtlich betriebene, gemeinn tzige Mini- Bauernhof steht nach dem Kraftakt des Umzugs vor neuen Herausforderungen. Wie bekommt man eine Subsistenzwirtschaft mitten in der Stadt hin? Warum muss an Silvester eine W chtergemeinschaft die Schafe besch tzen? Wie versorgt man die tierischen Mitbewohner ohne Strom- und Wasseranschluss? Mal humorvoll, mal kritisch, aber immer unterhaltsam f hrt Benjamin Vogt durch die turbulenten Geschehnisse auf der CityFarm. Er gibt wertvolle Tipps und erz hlt ganz offen von den Lektionen, die die CityFarm ihn gelehrt hat.

Trapped. Bloodied. Determined. Locked up behind the walls of Salem Penitentiary, Jason Pinder's lust for revenge has reached its peak, and he's not letting anything get in his way. With just months until the God Code goes off, the nation's clock is ticking, but nothing will stop Lazarus' mutiny.

Das epische Finale des Fantasyepos vom Erfolgsautor B. Vogt. Endlich stellt sich Wayan dem Unvermeidlichen, dem offenen Kampf mit seinem ehemaligen Meister. Doch die Frage aller Fragen bleibt Wer ist der EINE?

Der erfolgreiche Autor Benjamin Vogt beschreibt die Rettung des verletzten Stra enhundes Keule. Neben Sonne, Sand, Durst und br tender Hitze bietet 'Der Sandling' abwechslungsreiche Geschichten und Anekdoten ber den Alltag auf einer ehemaligen Sklaveninsel. Von den Cap Verden, einem gottverlassenen Inselarchipel nahe der afrikanischen Westk ste, f hrt die Reise anschlie end ins Herz des winterlichen Europa, nach Bayern. Dort w chst Keule, ungez hlte Stolpersteine sp ter, Schritt f r Schritt in sein Dasein als liebenswerter Bauernhofhund.