‘What’s going on there?’ she asked, pointing at the disheveled grass and flower field. ‘It looks wild.’ ‘Maybe someday, but to get it back to wild takes work. I mean, we started this a while ago. It’s prairie planted but you have to weed out the invasive stuff forever to get prairie reestablished. I think it almost broke Mom. But you should see it in spring when the prairie lilies come out. Every single plant has its own pollinator so you have to coax those in too. Like, well, it’s not for the faint of heart.’
