Launching: HOMEGROWN NATIONAL PARK Franklin Park
Native plants such as Lemon Beebalm (foreground purple flower) and Butterfly Weed (orange flowers in background) are sources of sustenance for our native insects and form the basis of our threatened ecosystem. Planting natives helps address this endangered, crucial ecological tier.
LAUNCH DATE: Tuesday, April 11 TIME: 7:30 PM
PLACE: 2002 Lorraine Avenue
Join a growing movement to reverse the climate crisis…one yard at a time! You can do this in your own yards and gardens by planting some native plants to help restore biodiversity. Learn how on April 11:
Watch a film by Homegrown National Park’s founder, Doug Tallamy, that will inspire you to start digging!
Learn 10 things you can do to get started in your yard
Discover what native plants grow well here and where to get them
Be amazed at how beautiful (and tasteful!) native plants can be
Meet neighbors and have fun starting a Franklin Park network
What is the Homegrown National Park movement?
Our National Parks – no matter how grand in scale – are too small and separated from one another to adequately preserve the native trees, plants, insects and animals that our ecosystems depend on to survive and thrive.
Thus, the concept for the Homegrown National Park, a national challenge to homeowners, property owners, land managers, farmers and anyone with some soil to plant in – to extend our national parks into our yards, communities, and surrounding lands by planting native and removing invasive species.
Right now, right here, each of us can take action in our own yards and put Franklin Park on the map of the Homegrown National Park. Read more about the national challenge here: Get on the Map!
“In the past, we have asked one thing of our gardens: that they be pretty. Now they have to support life, sequester carbon, feed pollinators and manage water.”
Doug Tallamy
Please join us and learn how to use these beautiful and crucial plants to create a special space at your own home!
RSVP not required but very helpful: cfrapp@att.net
Virginia bluebells…
a beloved native plant that adds grace and beauty to any garden.