Monarch Gardens in the media

Features / Interviews

• Native Seasonal Garden -- a write up in Garden Design of Benjamin's home landscape.
  
• Prairie Landscapes, Yard of the Future -- feature in Omaha World Herald on sustainable, artistic, wildlife yard alternatives.
  
• 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  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.
  

Podcasts

• Cultivating Place (50min) -- March 2018 podcast full of deep thoughts on the environmental challenges we face in gardens and place making.
• Iowa Public Radio / Talk of Iowa (30min) -- November 2017 interview on A New Garden Ethic and what's at stake amid climate change and mass extinction,
• Wisconsin Public Radio / Larry Meiller Show (38min) -- November 2017 interview on urban wildlife gardens, working with neighbors, and social justice.

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.