I’ve converted the bulk of the lawn on my lot back to prairie/woodland opening, and I feel like everyone is much more chill. I now have wasps, yellowjackets, and of course bees amicably buzzing around, in addition to the WASPs telling me how much they like it.
I went to the nursery this weekend and loaded up on natives for my front yard. I’d tried to do sowing of native meadow seed last fall but it didn’t take. I think squirrels and birds ate most of it before spring. So now we’re doing intentional planting.
But it was a grass lawn before and now it’s not so progress at least.