I Brake for Crickets

by Johanna Garrison
I noticed him bobbing in the water and knew he’d never make it; not by himself. It’d probably only taken a minute or two before the current had swept him far from the bank’s edge. I couldn’t leave him there, so
Wendy Mahaney, an environmental scientist and former executive director of Sustainable Saratoga, moved to Wilton in 2015. Since then, Wendy has slowly transformed her suburban lawn into a thriving ecosystem filled with native plants, butterflies, bumblebees,
At worst, it may be filled with lush, green turf grass that is