Recent news items encourage planting NATIVE plants for wildlife health
On April 24, The Chicago Tribune carried an article by Jessica Damiano (AP) entitled “Every yard makes an ecological difference” about Doug Tallamy and his project calling every yard part of a national park.
She wrote “If you’re a human living on this planet, you should get to know Doug Tallamy, the entomologist and University of Delaware professor whose groundbreaking 2006 book, “Bringing Nature Home,” supercharged the native plants movement.
Tallamy made a case that our native birds and insects evolved with native plants, so they recognize them as food. The loss of these native plants and habitats to development poses an existential threat not just to wildlife, but to us.
Since then, Tallamy co-founded Homegrown National Park, a grassroots movement whose mission is to ‘urgently inspire everyone to address the biodiversity crisis by adding native plants and removing invasive ones where we live, work, learn, pray, and play.
And the Field Museum newsletter of 4-26-25 linked to an article on their website about how to make a plan for creating a native garden, https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/planting-your-native-garden. Take a look for some excellent advice, including a link to the National Wildlife Federation site to register your successful garden!
Be inspired! Get those shovels ready! Buy native plants! Enjoy the results!
