This is neat - I live in Champaign near the University where she works. Every year for the past decade or so I visit the annual native plant sale that a local p

This is neat - I live in Champaign near the University where she works. Every year for the past decade or so I visit the annual native plant sale that a local preservation group puts on. I've been slowly building up a patch of native prairie plants in my back yard that I hope to expand more and more. We do maintain the lawn in our front just to keep it looking nice but we don't use any chemicals (bad for kids too!), but we kind of let the back yard do its own thing for the most part.