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Native prairie gardening and wildlife habitat focused, although we try to design our gardens to be designed to look like a planned, designed garden rather than just putting down a seed mix and seeing what comes up as some native prairie gardeners do. I try to use fairly local/regional-sourced non-cultivar species. My wife (the true garden nut in the family ;) ) uses more traditional mix of non-natives and natives and cultivars and species, but has been a bigger fan of natives in her spaces as time goes by (she'll never give up her love of many non-natives though). We just bought an acre property in Dec. '12 that was almost entirely lawn and large trees. We have begun the long process of eliminating lawn, planting a large (@ 1/4 acre) vegetable garden & a lot of fruit trees & bushes, as well as flower & native gardens.