Evelyn Hadden has been writing and publishing information about naturalistic landscaping since 2001, when she started LessLawn.com. In her first book, Apprentice to a Garden, she writes about the joys, challenges, and life lessons she experienced while converting a small urban lawn into a naturalistic landscape. Her recent book Shrink Your Lawn: Design ideas for any landscape is an expanded version of the "Design Ideas" talk and won a silver medal from Independent Publisher's 2009 Living Now Book Awards.

Hadden is one of the ten members of the national Lawn Reform Coalition, a resource for ecologically sound lawns and lawn alternatives. She gardens in Minnesota and travels across the country speaking to other gardeners about eco-friendly landscaping with less lawn. See topics.

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