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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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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Thanks to WDTN in Ohio for featuring the native habitat of Brandon Hough, our Executive Director! https://homegrownnationalpark.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Brandon-Hough-News-Story-Landscape.mp4 “It used to be all grass just three years ago. It’s now — it’s native prairie for all the native wildflowers and native grasses that would have been in Ohio before,” says Brandon Hough, as he looks over
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Congratulations to longtime HNP supporter Christian Cooper, who won the award for Outstanding Daytime Personality for hosting the National Geographic Wild series, “Extraordinary Birder”. What an extraordinary achievement for an extraordinary human! Container Gardening with Keystone Native Plants You might recognize Christian from our features about his impressive rooftop garden in New York. This native container
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This offer has ended. Stay tuned for the next collaboration! We’ve partnered with the very talented Melissa Bryant for our first limited edition t-shirt! (available in 4 colors) Her unique hand-drawn artwork captures the beauty of a selection of container-friendly keystone plants. It contains a single species of flowering plant for each in the 10
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Now your business, school, city, place of worship, golf course, etc. can show off its native planting contributions and be part of the Homegrown National Park grassroots movement to restore habitat and regenerate biodiversity. The New HNP Biodiversity Map features allow users to create an Organization that can be managed via their individual user accounts.
Homegrown National Park is thrilled to be the official non-profit partner for this fun challenge to help you stay active this winter! Birds vs. Bees is a two-month virtual running challenge that takes participants on a narrative-driven journey through a backyard ecosystem, from the point of view of a bird and a bee. Participants can
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