Principles and practices to enhance your yard’s habitat
This webpage provides an introduction to ecological principles and practices to help ensure that removing invasives and planting natives will produce the intended result–a yard that you can enjoy and that supports biodiversity.
Getting started can feel overwhelming. Take it in baby steps by first selecting priority areas in your yard and observing light and soil moisture conditions in those areas.
Keeping in mind a few basic principles about where and what to plant will increase the quality of the habitat in your yard.
The neighbors will like your native plant yard if you incorporate “cues to care” that trigger positive responses in humans.
Use more ecological approaches to yard maintenance tasks throughout the year.