Today’s guest, Sara Weaner Cooper, and her husband, Evan Cooper, bought their first home a couple of years ago, and before long undertook transitioning the front lawn organically from mown grass into a meadow. Sara’s here to tell us about their hands-on adventure and all the how-to steps—including the importance of communicating your intentions to your neighbors along the way.

Sara Weaner Cooper, who has her bachelor’s and master’s in anthropology and education, is executive director of New Directions in the American Landscape, an educational organization founded by her father, the renown ecological landscape designer Larry Weaner, that promotes ecology-based landscape design and practice. There she develops and coordinates educational programs, geared to both professional and layperson audiences. She and her husband, Evan Cooper, live in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.  

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