Benjamin Vogt is the author of “Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design” and “A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future.” His design work has been featured in The American Gardener, Dwell, Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Midwest Living, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He operates Prairie Up, a firm dedicated to offering garden design, online classes, workshops, webinars, and guidebooks, and speaks nationally on natural garden design and landscape ethics.