From 1999-2010, milkweed populations shrank 58% in the Midwest as agriculture adopted genetically modifed (GMO) crops that accept mass spraying of weed killer. And from 1999-2010 monarch egg production dropped by 81% in the Midwest. This now threatened insect migration--one of the largest of its kin...
Benjamin Vogt
Paperback
32
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
1475128924
9781475128925
4
Peeling off sheets of skin from a sunburned back. Visiting five nurseries and spending $1,000 in an afternoon. Raising 200 monarch butterflies. Hearing the wing beats of geese thirty feet overhead at sunset. How one piece of mulch can make all the difference. These are the stories of Benjamin Vogt’s...
Benjamin Vogt
Paperback
110
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
1463666594
9781463666590
1
Paperback
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
7
Paperback
Stephen F. Austin University Press
6
Using family photographs from the last century, Afterimage moves from the southern to northern Plains and the eastern Midwest, where the natural world calls out through open fields and dark woods, then through transient moments framed by gardens: a butterfly nectaring on a coneflower, planting laven...
Benjamin Vogt
Paperback
80
Stephen F. Austin University Press
1936205572
9781936205578
3
Your garden is a protest. It is a place of defiant compassion. That space is one to help sustain wildlife and ecosystem function while providing an aesthetic response that moves you. For you, beauty isn't just petal deep, but goes down into the soil, further down into the aquifer, and back up into t...
Benjamin Vogt
Paperback
52
Prairie Dog Press
0692551107
9780692551103
2