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Get Your Now Invasive Free Garden Nationally Certified!
In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned ways to "green" your garden. After creating a native friendly, invasive free, sustainable garden, why not get it certified as a National Wildlife Habitat? Well, after looking a little further I found that it is actually quite easy to get your garden certified as a National Wildlife Habitat. The National Wildlife Federation will make you a member and also certify your yard. The National Wildlife Federation mentions in the following short videos, the four simple things you need to transform your garden into a sustainable and native species friendly environment.
- Food for Wildlife
- Water for Wildlife
- Shelter for Wildlife
- Places for Wildlife to Raise Their Young
Once you have all of these things in your yard, just go to the National Wildlife Federation's website at nwf.org/gardenforwildlife and fill out the online application. Amy Stewart wrote a great article that gives more background information on the benefits and history of the program. It is a great project that allows gardeners and families everywhere to get involved and restore some of the natural habitat that has been lost due to anthropogenic influence. I will be helping my mom get her garden certified this summer. I cannot wait to start!
For as long as I can remember, I have always been fascinated by the world around me. Unfortunately, over the years, I have been forced to witness its swift destruction. Whether it be paving a wetland to build a parking lot or clear cutting a forest, these practices
...For as long as I can remember, I have always been fascinated by the world around me. Unfortunately, over the years, I have been forced to witness its swift destruction. Whether it be paving a wetland to build a parking lot or clear cutting a forest, these practices demonstrate the extremely selfish and unsustainable practices of humankind. Man often takes the resources that these ecosystems provide without thinking of the consequences that their actions may have. Habitat fragmentation, destruction by invasive species---these are all things that can be prevented with forethought. My passion and ultimate goal is to prevent further destruction from careless planning and action to occur in the ecosystems that remain on Earth today. I strongly believe that, by educating the public (schools, businesses, governmental administrations etc.) on ways to live sustainably and conserve it will be possible to preserve what little is left of the environment today. I want more than anything for my children and my children's children to have the opportunity to witness and explore the amazing things that nature and the environment have to offer. It is for this reason that I am driven to do everything in my power to spread the word of conservation because the environment represents and helps sustain everything I love in this world. (ELEA As.1)
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