We are excited to invite you to a special event hosted by Homegrown National Park® in partnership with best-selling author Benjamin Vogt! Join us on Thursday, October 10th at 12:30 PM CDT for an engaging 90-minute session where you’ll learn all about transforming your lawn into a resilient, native plant paradise. Benjamin will provide a crash course on: Selecting native […]
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A New Chapter for Nature, Collaboration, and Native Plants At Homegrown National Park® (HNP), we believe in the power of individual action to transform the world, one yard at a time. That’s why we were thrilled to collaborate on the message behind Camilla and the Caterpillars, a new children’s chapter book by Frances Figart, beautifully
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Try these Keystone native plants instead of (non-native) chrysanthemums to support your local pollinators and other wildlife! Keystones are the most productive native plants to support the most productive species.🐝 These plants are also container-friendly for your patio or balcony. Find more options for the most productive plants and trees using our Keystone Plant Guides.
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Announcing the launch of a brand-new series of videos created for kids in grades K-2 by WonderGrove Kids, in collaboration with Homegrown National Park! These engaging and educational videos focus on the importance of creating habitats for birds, making it easy and fun for young children to learn how they can help nature right in
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The Keystone Roll-Out Garden™ is a new collaboration with Ecoplantia featuring four keystone species and four powerful natives that pollinators thrive on. For each template that is sold, a portion of the proceeds are donated to Homegrown National Park®. Professionally designed native plant gardens printed onto bio-degradable paper and shipped with ALL of the actual plants!
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We’re thrilled that Homegrown National Park was recently featured on WGN News in Chicago! In a story highlighting the growing movement among Chicago area residents to shrink their lawns and embrace native plants, we were honored to share how this simple yet impactful shift is helping to bring nature back to the city. By transforming
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Celebrating Your Native Planting Journeys We’re excited to share some snapshots of the HNP Fireflies’ amazing native plant habitats! Your homegrown gardens are bursting with beauty and biodiversity, and we can’t get enough of them. Each of you is out there turning your yards into vibrant ecosystems, and it’s truly inspiring. So, let’s applaud these
Universities Leading the Way with Healthier Landscapes By Grant Jensen and Re:wild Your Campus Est. Read Time: 7 minutes Learn how campuses are converting to native ecosystems and organic land care, and how you can get involved with your campus or alma mater. Find these universities on the Homegrown National Park Biodiversity Map! Native
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By Grace Hassler and Grant Jensen Est. Read Time: 7 minutes Backyard Bounty: A top contributor to the Homegrown National Park Biodiversity Map™. Learn why native landscaping is not only sound from an ecological perspective, but from a business perspective as well. Native landscapers have so much opportunity to become community influencers! Also find options for
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Who says native plants can’t be used in formal gardening?! Let’s hear a 🙌 for longtime HNP supporter, Lynn O’Shaughnessy in Howell, Michigan who put her incredible project on the HNP Biodiversity Map. Besides the ground prep, Lynn completed this entire project herself. “The best part of this whole journey was to learn how powerful
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