Join Homegrown National Park

The city of Mountain Brook is a HNP participant, and moved the Alabama needle from 103 participants to 104 participants when the City Hall Native Plant Pollinator Garden was registered with HNP in April of 2023.

As may be seen in the photos below, as of January 2024 Alabama's participants has grown to 267!  Let's all work together to keep this number rising for our state!

Homegrown National Park is a grassroots call-to-action to regenerate biodiversity and ecosystem function by planting native plants and creating new ecological networks.

Catalyzing a collective effort of individual homeowners, property owners, land managers, farmers, and anyone with some soil to plant in…to start a new habitat by planting native plants and removing most invasive plants.  It is the largest cooperative conservation project ever conceived or attempted.

The initial goal is 20 million acres of native plantings in the U.S., representing approximately ½ of the green lawns of privately-owned properties.

Homegrown National Park is a term coined by Doug Tallamy and is the key to our call-to-action:
“Our National Parks, no matter how grand in scale are too small and separated from one another to preserve species to the levels needed.  Thus, the concept for Homegrown National Park, a bottom-up call-to-action to restore habitat where we live and work, and to a lesser extent where we farm and graze, extending national parks to our yards and communities.”

THE MAP is an interactive community-based visual that will show each person’s contribution to planting native by State, County and Zip Code.

There will be a gauge showing progress towards our goal of 20 million acres of native planting in the U.S.

Importantly, the map is a way for individuals to see their part in the greater whole – creating new ecological networks and restoring biodiversity.

START DIGGING!

Homegrown National Park Biodiversity Map, Get on the Map