I've been experimenting with this wildlife habitat garden for a couple of years now. The focus is actually incorporating something called sinuous paths into it. These are paths that curve in a way so that they only reveal themselves as you walk along them.

It's meant to be visually alluring to walk through it if that makes sense.

It also attracts animals because they can use the paths as moving cover.

It changes with the seasons. Currently we're in late summer early fall. So the goldenrod is blooming I'm feeding all the honey bees and even monarch butterflies before they fly to Mexico.

I'm planning on reaching out to my state agricultural extension to get monarch caterpillars and or cocoons next year

I also really enjoy the queen Anne's lace silhouette with its slender stems and bulbous umbel and the bright magenta stems of the pokeweed.

It attracts amazing lightning bugs, lots of crickets, white cabbage moths, flocks of American goldfinches, and bunny rabbits. Even some deer every now and then.

The barns pretty much a birdhouse for Barn swallows like to circle me when I am mowing trying to scare me off. I'm going to put an owl habitat in one of the top windows eventually, let it hunt over the field for mice.

I’ve spent 10 years fuckin’ up my lawn. The bees approve. (Zone 4)