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October 17, 2023
Wild Hope, Margaret Renkl & Margaret Roach Webinar, Leave the Leaves

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October 3, 2023
Message from Brandon Hough, Planting Calculator, Facebook Group

August 12, 2023
HNP in the News: You're Lighting Us Up!

June 20, 2023
Executive Director Announcement

May 22, 2023
Biodiversity Day by Doug Tallamy

March 14,2023
Designing A Small Meadow Garden With Commonly-Available Native Plants with Benjamin Vogt

January 31, 2023
4 Universal Landscape Goals

January 5, 2023
Why Ecoregions? And More Exciting News for the New Year!

October 12, 2022
Container Gardening with Keystones, Every Square Foot of Native Plants Count!

AUGUST 10, 2022
Join the Grassroots Solution to the Biodiversity Crisis!

JULY 25, 2022
Monarch Butterfly Listed as Endangered
JULY 1, 2022
New Article about Lawns by Margaret Roach in The New York Times
JUNE 1, 2022
Who Lights Us Up?
MAY 22, 2022
Biodiversity Day
FEBRUARY 14, 2022 E-NEWS
Happy Valentine’s Day!
DECEMBER 30, 2021 E-NEWS
Lovejoy and Wilson have spoken; now it's time to act
DECEMBER 15, 2021 E-NEWS
Announcing a downloadable & customizable brochure about the biodiversity crisis
20 for 20 CAMPAIGN
Call to action for turning the biodiversity crisis into a thriving ecosystem
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 NEWSLETTER
When Landscape Artists Take the Lead; Hastings Pollinator Pathway; Newport News Extension Master Gardeners
JUNE 23, 2021 NEWSLETTER
Muscatine Pollinator Project; Prairie Strips; A Formal Native Garden
MARCH 30, 2021 NEWSLETTER
Doug’s new book - The Nature of Oaks; Native Planting in Big Cities
FEBRUARY 23, 2021 NEWSLETTER
Get on the Map; Yard Signs Available

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Why Ecoregions? By Doug Tallamy

Thanks to RLEP’s [Rappahannock League for Environmental Protectionefforts we can offer everyone the share-worthy, downloadable & customizable brochure about the biodiversity crisis, HNP and what each of us can do to “get started” and get ON THE MAP!

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We are thrilled that we have so many entries on the Homegrown National Park® MAP representing acres and acres of land planted native!!

Big THANK YOU to all you early-adopters for taking the initiative to GET ON THE MAP!, for being ‘influencers’, for supporting the HNP call-to-action, for expressing your enthusiasm and encouraging others to get on the MAP. YOU cannot know how much your action and comments mean to Doug and me. We THANK YOU so much! HELP US SPREAD THE WORD!

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GUEST POSTS

6 Reasons to Plant Native / by Archewild

By Caroline Alexander | March 26, 2021

Establishing native species on your property allows for ecosystem processes that can’t be achieved with common lawn grass or ornamentals. If you want to rebuild and strengthen the natural habitat in your backyard, that plan has to include native plants. There are many, many important reasons to start restoring your property with native plants, so let’s start with the basics.

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Window Strikes and Native Plants / by Jim Cubie

By Caroline Alexander | March 26, 2021

The Challenge Bird-friendly backyard programs must succeed. They are the best option for increasing bird populations on a yard-by-yard scale. Bird-friendly programs will fail, however, if they do not start by protecting birds against what is killing birds in yards — unprotected windows. We must recognize that windows are part of the backyard ecosystem. If we do not, the gains in bird population from bird-friendly backyards will be negated by bird deaths hitting windows.

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