Principles and practices to enhance your yard’s habitat
This information on ecological principles and practices for your yard can 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.
Keep in mind a few basic principles when deciding where and what to plant in order to increase the quality of the habitat in your yard.
The neighbors will like your yard if you incorporate “cues to care” that trigger positive responses in humans.
Use more ecological approaches to yard maintenance tasks throughout the year.