Margaret Renkl: To do more for the environment, do less with your lawn

I am cultivating a meadow where our front yard used to be.

(William DeShazer for The New York Times) A monarch caterpillar feasts on the leaves of a milkweed plant in the author’s meadow.

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By Margaret Renkl | The New York Times