Lawns Into Meadows, 2nd Edition

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Landscape designer Owen Wormser presents a guide on transforming traditional lawns into low-maintenance, eco-friendly meadows, emphasizing sustainability, regeneration, and beauty. Lawns have negatively impacted natural ecosystems, while meadows provide an attractive, year-round alternative. They create habitats for wildlife and pollinators, require less maintenance and cost, and possess resilience against climate extremes. Additionally, meadows can sequester significantly more carbon dioxide than manicured lawns. Wormser offers detailed instructions on planting organic or traditional meadows tailored to individual sites. His guidance covers preparing the plot, designing the meadow, planting without synthetic chemicals, and cultivating 21 native grasses and wildflowers, such as butterfly weed and purple coneflower. He also provides strategies for gaining neighborhood support in areas where manicured lawns are the norm and encourages readers to become meadow activists. Drawing from his own experiences growing up off the grid in northern Maine, Wormser highlights the joys of meadow-building. He urges readers to replace lawns with meadows, sharing accessible, ecologically sound advice that inspires action for the planet.