Author encourages Illinoisans to make yards more wildlife-friendly
(The Center Square) – Homeowners can make their yards more friendly for wildlife, ensuring that local wildlife can flourish. Suburban yards that ar...
(The Center Square) – Homeowners can make their yards more friendly for wildlife, ensuring that local wildlife can flourish. Suburban yards that are mostly empty turf grass do not produce enough caterpillars to feed many of the baby birds that are born in the spring. Benjamin Vogt, author of ' Prairie Up ,' the new garden design book from University of Illinois Press, said the answer is planting more native plants, shrubs and trees to fill the yard with bird food. 'The way they are traditionally set up in urban and suburban areas, lawns are essentially devoid of wildlife,' Vogt told The Center Square.