How to Rewild a Vacant Lot Without Wasting Time on the Wrong Species
You phase onto the lot. Cigarette butts, shattered glass, a rusted shopping cart. The soil is compacted, baked hard by three decades of neglect. But y...
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You phase onto the lot. Cigarette butts, shattered glass, a rusted shopping cart. The soil is compacted, baked hard by three decades of neglect. But y...
I once watched a rewilding project install a dozen native plant species in a community lot. The team had done their homework—soil tests, pollinator au...
Last spring, I watched a friend spend $800 on native plugs for a 400-square-foot backyard. By August, it looked like a vacant lot — burdock stalks six...
In 2019, a Detroit community group turned a vacant lot into a native prairie. By 2020, it was a thicket of mugwort and burdock—plants the volunteers h...