2020 brought us (maybe one of the few good things it brought us!) a new book from Doug Tallamy, Nature’s Best Hope, in which he encouraged us to think about our native landscapes as pieces of the biggest national park, “Homegrown National Park, an aspirational project to repurpose half of America’s lawnscape for ecologically productive use.
A website has been created for you, the native plant habitat enthusiast, to put your garden on the map! The goal is 20 million acres of native plantings in the U.S. This represents approximately ½ of the green lawns of privately-owned properties.
The map will be a community-based visual that will show each person’s individual contribution to planting native. The HGNP Map will gauge the success of reaching our goal of 20 million acres of native planting in the United States!
Read more and add your native plant garden to the map
