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Will you help us make our area a little bit wilder?

Worried about the planet? Change starts in your backyard...

Wildlife needs our help. Human activity has changed & eliminated critical habitat. Birds, bees, butterflies & wildlife are forced into shrinking wild areas. But you can make a difference in your own backyard. By using the right plants and practices you can create vital habitat right outside your own door.

Learn more about certified wildlife habitats

Join the Homegrown National Park Movement

Dr. Doug Tallamy, Co-Founder of the Homegrown National Park movement  presents the grassroots science-based solution to the biodiversity crisis and explains why it's so urgent. Learn more about Homegrown National Park and get on the map by visiting www.homegrownnationalpark.org.

Planting Native - Why Does it Matter?

Restoring native plant habitat is vital to preserving biodiversity.

Over the past century, urbanization has taken intact, ecologically productive land and fragmented and transformed it with lawns and exotic ornamental plants. The continental U.S. lost a staggering 150 million acres of habitat and farmland to urban sprawl, and that trend isn’t slowing. The modern obsession with highly manicured “perfect” lawns alone has created a green, monoculture carpet across the country that covers over 40 million acres. The human-dominated landscape no longer supports functioning ecosystems, and the remaining isolated natural areas are not large enough to support wildlife.

Native plants are those that occur naturally in a region in which they evolved. They are the ecological basis upon which life depends, including birds and people. Without them and the insects that co-evolved with them, local birds cannot survive. For example, research by the entomologist Doug Tallamy has shown that native oak trees support over 500 species of caterpillars whereas ginkgos, a commonly planted landscape tree from Asia, host only 5 species of caterpillars. When it takes over 6,000 caterpillars to raise one brood of chickadees, that is a significant difference.

Unfortunately, most of the landscaping plants available in nurseries are alien species from other countries. These exotic plants not only sever the food web, but many have become invasive pests, outcompeting native species and degrading habitat in remaining natural areas.


Read our Summer, 2022 Barrington Times Garden Article

Time to Rethink the Traditional Lawn

Imagine for a moment if we could shift attitudes about lawns and begin to transition them to useful or at least not harmful spaces. These grassy patches hold so much opportunity.  Our spaces are a reflection of our individual style, values & convictions and an opportunity to create positive change at home.

Read the Article Here

Go Wild - Plant Native - Visit our Roadside Stand!

Hard to find native shrubs, berry bushes & more - hand selected for your backyard wildlife garden!

Pollinator friendly plants with a focus on native perennials that are host plants and nectar sources

Pollinator friendly plants with a focus on native perennials that are host plants and nectar sources

Wildlife tasted and approved!

Wildlife tasted and approved! 

Pollinator friendly plants with a focus on native perennials that are host plants and nectar sources

Pollinator friendly plants with a focus on native perennials that are host plants and nectar sources

Pollinator friendly plants with a focus on native perennials that are host plants and nectar sources

These beauties will get your yard buzzing! 🐝

Follow along for all the latest buzz 🐝.

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