Turn up your sound to hear the difference in summer insect life between a mowed field and our neighboring property 3 years into a gradual restoration. This is what it’s all about! More native plants means more native bugs, deeper roots, and slower, cleaner runoff. Which means cleaner water, more food, and over all better habitat for larger wildlife!

Patched this together from a vid we took to show off that box turtle (we were excited to see a new individual!). The bugs you can hear in the first bit are mostly the ones from our yard, they’re just that loud. The difference is even more obvious in person, so I’ll try to take a better vid this summer!