Appreciate the work, and the humor. “I lived with the spiders, I was damp from the forest, the beetles knew me and the tri-colored bees, I slept with the partridges immersed in the mint.” Pablo Neruda

My jaw literally dropped. So beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

We bought 4 acres in a rural area subdivision zoned for farming and one acre is along a property boundary. It includes a sloped, wooded streambed and opens up to a uneven and sloped terrain that is is covered in pasture grass and dead trees and wood. I love it. The deer love it. The owls and woodpeckers love it. Last summer it looked beautiful and had lots of butterflies. Even so, I want to try to make it look somewhat more presentable as we have new neighbors now who bought the house next door despite the way it looks but now are encroaching, weed whacking and otherwise trespassing on our property and trying to take it. We have cut all the vines like bittersweet, kudzu and others, kept the grape vines, and removed an old wire farm fence. They seem undeterred. Our conservancy is not interested in coming out to help or advise as this area is only about .8 acres and there are no target species they are interested in. The people next door came from a town home HOA and have called the county on us who have said nothing because we are not out of compliance. We have general restrictive covenants but no positive covenants meaning as long as we dont violate the language we are okay but I thin they think they can just order us to clear terrain that has never been disturbed at all. This woman is so lucky to have nice neighbors. She has a beautiful yard.

Thanks for sharing and fielding all the questions.

You're a meadow rock star, thank you for all the great info!

I put cardboard down then completely covered with leaves ( I did mine in the fall .) Don't have to do more it breaks down on its own, then plant seeds in plain soil

Great work! So glad to see this beautiful prairie

Wow! This is so valuable. Love your answering questions from people more at my (beginner) level.

Hello from Auckland, New Zealand ...Love what ya done !!!

W0W !!! That Looks Great, Merry Christmas from Auckland, New Zealand ...

Awesome video. So much information.

I normally buy my wild flower seeds from the Dollar Tree or Dollar General they got these packets that are like pollinator flowers and hummingbird flowers and some other stuff mixed into the packet I just throw them on the ground and let them grow

really great video... so much more valuable than just some photos or a write-up or whatever, excellent job - hope everybody with a boring lawn in the US copies this...it really doesn't matter if you're in a different bioregion... the northeast, mid-atlantic...some of the plants may do well, some may change...but you can still have a nice native meadow that provides beauty and habitat and is part of rehabilitating the environment

Absolutely beautiful! This is exactly what I want to do. Thanks for your very instructive video.

Excellent job!

Use clear plastic to smother. Higher temperatures because of solarization.

Absolutely beautiful ❤️

Great job. Thank you. Getting started out west of you in Sterling

Thank you so much for doing this. Some IL love from McLean county

Can we get a 2021 update? 😊 Thanks

Definitely planning to do this down here in Mississippi once I move out of this subdivision.

Weeds make flowers too :) but seriously looks beautiful! I let dandelions grow too. Very beneficial and medicinal. I want to turn my entire lawn into a prairie.

Cutting sod out only an inch down? That was certainly not my experience. I would say four to five inches deep to get all the roots out from years of grass and grass like growth before creating a mostly native grass garden in New Hampshire. This is a great video, thanks!

Yeaaaa I feel I might have a problem with my project lol. I didn't lay anything down, covered a quarter of the area with just good compost/black dirt, quarter of lawn clippings and dirt on top of that, and the other half I currently have lawn clippings on. I'll add black dirt/compost in the fall before I seed the winter sowing seeds. 🤷🤔 Ps. I aslo planted on a 15ft by 90ft sand berm to prevent a basement from flooding lol. So mowing will be a problem also 🤦😅

This is the first and possibly only time I’ll ever say this, and I don’t wanna hear about later…yaaas queen!

Great presentation.

I lived in Hanover Park ,Illinois I must have been lucky because the first summer I planted Wildfolwers on one side of my house ,I used seed strips I don"t know if thy still sell them but ever type in the mix bloomed that same Summer ,it was the easest growing experience I ever had I enjoyed looking at them .I really don"t like Grass it is to much work and time costing.

Great video, but would like to know how to erradicate nasty Johnson grass from a wildflower meadow

Good for you, here in Canada Ontario, Ottawa i had to cut all my beautiful wildflowers, that’s law, some one reported to city, I’m not cutting my weed!!! So sad,

Very beautiful

Spectacular! I’m always looking for places to replace non natives w natives.

Do you have the same tick / lyme disease problems we do here in the Northeast? It's one of my biggest concerns with rewilding.

Thank you.

why would you pull up golden rod?? It is such a good pollinator friendly native.

im from mexico and im excited to do this,sadly here i cant reach for help

Nice view idol thanks for sharing this video godluck blogger new friend here

Isnt canada goldenrod native in the midwest..? Its a really good plant for butterflies, hoverflies, ladybugs and other native insects

This is absolutely beautiful. We have an acre in Champaign county, so Zone 5B rather than 5A. To your knowledge, are there resources available in my area for a transformation such as this? Our property is predominantly monoculture grass, but we are looking at permaculture and food forest options for portions and I would like to do a significant portion of it as a wildflower meadow as well.

Can I jus buzz my lawn to almost nothing then rake out the grass and spread wildflower seed an let it go ? I live in south Florida thought if I just throw down annual seeds they will just keep reseeding and I won’t ever have too reseed ? Not sure tho any advice ?

Is yearly burning necessary? I thought it was advised to keep some plant stalks as habitat for overwintering insects?

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I wonder if there's anything like that for Peoria County

why would you remove canada goldenrod? its such a key fall plant for pollinators..

Indian grass has been the most aggravating aggressive thing in my native prairie

I buy my wildflower seeds from Dollar General for a dollar 25 a packet they got all kinds of seed 4 for $4 dollar 25 for 14 G

How much seed did you use?

How do you smother it?

What zone are you in? I'm 7a I think, (in Canada)

How does it look few months later?

Where did you get your seed mix from?

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What if I “smothered” the lawn by spraying vinegar and orange oil vegetation killer?

Would it be helpful to let some grazing animals in now and then?

How do you smother a lawn? Do you just atop watering??

what is the web address link for the LEARN facebook group? when I search for it on facebook there are thousands of groups with the word learn in them.

No one ever says what state they are in. How are viewers supposed to know where in the country you are?

What variety of potato was used to record this?

DO YOU HAVE A LIST OF THE SEED IN YOUR MIX?

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That will be a forest unless it's mowed every few years.

I noticed almost everyone she almost been talking to their name starts with a J☺

r lucky that you don't get fined from the city for over 6 inches tall that happened to me

I guess if you are designing a meadow you need to be away from agriculture using this plant? Does it change the soil to inhibit all monocots?

looks nice , but its not wildflower meadow, not wild enogh . im from Romania , we do do have untoched wilflower meadows. the seeds mix is not the right one , the proportion of flowers is not ok also.

My senators are illiterate.

mowing doesn't make sense to me??? sure you kill the weeds, but you also kill the flowers. right?

Doesn't look like there's much Flowers

Probably packed with rats. I don't wanna do this now