Homegrown National Park - Wildlife Gardeners

Martha · 02-24-2021, 09:47 AM

Doug Tallamy has teamed up with a marketing woman, who was inspired by one of his lectures. They created a website to spread the message of the Homegrown National Park idea. That is by reducing lawns, planting natives and creating habitat, we begin linking useful ecosystems. National Parks are wonderful, but they are too few and too fragmented to help save our declining biodiversity.

https://homegrownnationalpark.org/about-us

There’s a map that you can add yourself to. I’m one of 3 people in Brooklyn, NY so far. Spread the word..

NEWisc · 02-24-2021, 12:02 PM

Nice find Martha! It will be great if this Homegrown National Park idea catches on.

Martha · 02-24-2021, 09:53 PM

It certainly would be! It’s very much a common topic among my gardener friends in NYC. We have lots of diversity here. Probably because we don’t have yards big enough to have giant lawns. Now if I could just win the battle against boxwood! But seriously, I slip native plants into almost all of my clients gardens and so do many of my colleagues.

jack · 02-26-2021, 04:24 PM

This is a terrific idea!!! Great to see you posting again Martha!!!

02-24-2021, 09:47 AM	#1
Martha Grub Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: Brooklyn, NY	Homegrown National Park Doug Tallamy has teamed up with a marketing woman, who was inspired by one of his lectures. They created a website to spread the message of the Homegrown National Park idea. That is by reducing lawns, planting natives and creating habitat, we begin linking useful ecosystems. National Parks are wonderful, but they are too few and too fragmented to help save our declining biodiversity. https://homegrownnationalpark.org/about-us There’s a map that you can add yourself to. I’m one of 3 people in Brooklyn, NY so far. Spread the word..

02-24-2021, 12:02 PM	#2
NEWisc Fox Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Wisconsin	Nice find Martha! It will be great if this Homegrown National Park idea catches on. __________________ . Age is a biological fact. Old is a state of mind. I will age, but I refuse to get old.

02-26-2021, 04:24 PM	#4
jack Great Horned Owl Join Date: May 2010 Location: Northeastern MA	This is a terrific idea!!! Great to see you posting again Martha!!! __________________ "Know thyself." Oracle at Delphi

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02-24-2021, 09:53 PM	#3
Martha Grub Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: Brooklyn, NY	It certainly would be! It’s very much a common topic among my gardener friends in NYC. We have lots of diversity here. Probably because we don’t have yards big enough to have giant lawns. Now if I could just win the battle against boxwood! But seriously, I slip native plants into almost all of my clients gardens and so do many of my colleagues.