Co-Founder Doug Tallamy

It really works!  For years now, I have been claiming that restoration works, that nature is wonderfully resilient, and that, with a little help, she can rebuild biodiversity throughout human-dominated landscapes whenever she is given half a chance.  Tallamy Residence What has happened on the Tallamy property in southeast Pennsylvania over the past two decades […]

An Antidote To the Despair Epidemic Moderated by: Michelle Alfandari, co-founder Homegrown National Park® Read time: 19 minutes It was a thrill to get the call from Wild Hope HHMI Tangled Bank Studio to collaborate with HNP.   It’s been a synergistic and exciting relationship that we hope will continue forever! We are thrilled to announce

There are four ecological functions every landscape must perform if we are to achieve a sustainable relationship with the natural world that supports us (and continuing to insist on landscapes that do not sustain mother nature is not and has never been a realistic option). It’s really very simple; our landscapes must do the things that enable ecosystems to produce the life support we and every other species requires.

Plants do not distribute themselves according to political boundaries like state or county. Plants grow where they can, based on soil type, rainfall, temperature, altitude, and past geological events like glaciation.  And these environmental conditions do not follow state boundaries.

GARDENING FOR LIFE Chances are, you have never thought of your garden – – indeed, of all of the space on your property – – as a wildlife preserve that represents the last opportunity we have for sustaining plants and animals that were once common throughout the U.S. But that is exactly the role that