Monarch Gardens in the media

Features / Interviews

• Native Seasonal Garden -- a write up in Garden Design of Benjamin's home landscape.
• My Nebraska Experiment -- short feature on Benjamin's garden and its purpose in APLD's The Designer (Spring 2016, Association of Professional Landscape Designers).
• The Farm Bill and the Precipitous Decline of Monarch Butterflies -- article appearing in High Country News (March 2014) for which Benjamin was interviewed.
• Drought and Native Plants -- Benjamin was quoted extensively for this Omaha World Herald piece in the fall of 2012, a year that saw very little rain.
  
• Monarch Butterfly Boosters -- Lincoln Journal Star piece highlighting monarch conservation and our garden design for the Cornhusker Council Boy Scouts of America.
  

Podcasts

• How's It Growin' (44min) -- the March 2016 radio broadcast discussing unique native plants for wildlife and multi-season interest, as well as the environmental and cost benefits of green mulch over traditional wood mulch (this was Benjamin's 4th appearance on the program).
• The Mike Nowak Show (20min)-- the April 2015 show on gardening for pollinators in urban and suburban landscapes.
• The Master Gardener Hour (it's an hour) -- November 2014 discussion with Kate Copsey on how I got hooked gardening and on fall planting with natives. 

Video

• Gardens With Purpose (11min)-- short presentation as part of the Living Activism event hosted by the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
• Moms Everyday (3min)-- segment on the local CBS affiliate KOLN on gardening for and raising monarch butterflies.

Accolades

• GWA Silver Medal 2016 -- The Association for Garden Communicators annual media awards for best e-zine article.
• Best of Houzz 2014 -- 7 of the top 15 garden articles on Houzz were written by Benjamin.
• Apartment Therapy Best of 2012 -- listed as one of the top outdoor spaces featured on the website that year.