Pink blooms of swamp milkweed supporting a monarch butterfly with its nectar and several monarch caterpillars with its leaves. Pink blooms of swamp milkweed supporting a monarch butterfly with its nectar and several monarch caterpillars with its leaves.

Start Planting with a Purpose

You can create change right outside your door.

An illustration of a monarch butterfly, a bee, and a chickadee with a downward arrow indicating that one third of wildlife is in decline.

Your Impact is Needed

The way you care for your own piece of earth has a profound impact on wildlife, people, and the climate. You can help by promoting biodiversity in your own outdoor space!

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Let’s Dig in and Grow Together!

Explore the wealth of information, resources, and sound scientific advice we offer to help you grow your habitat. Whether it’s a yard, community space, or container garden, you can make a difference for wildlife!

A monarch butterfly rests on blooming purple aster flowers.

CREDIT: EDWARD EPISCOPO

Find Native Plants for Your Location

Get a list of highly impactful plants that are native to your area based on your zip code! Explore our Native Plant Finder.

Hummingbird in flight sipping water from a birdbath.

CREDIT: JUDY JOHNSON

Provide the Habitat Essentials

All wildlife need food, water, cover, and places to raise their young. Discover how you can provide these habitat essentials in your own garden, yard, or balcony!

Gardeners holding shovels and spades, getting ready to plant trees.

CREDIT: DONNA M. DIFRANCESCO

Act for Lasting Change

Check out ways you can create a culture of change in your HOA, across your state, and even at the national level.

Flats of butterfly milkweed plant plugs sitting on a nursery table.

 

Shop for Native Plants and Habitat Accessories

Find plant collections curated for where you live. Stock up on gardening and habitat tools and accessories through our product page.

Garden for Wildlife® Where You Live, Work, Play, Learn, and Worship

A woman in a green apron tending to her garden, surrounded by beautiful flowers, small trees, and the NWF Certified Wildlife Habitat lawn plaque.

CREDIT: KAILA DRAYTON

Create & Certify

Turn your outdoor space into a wildlife haven and then get it recognized as a Certified Wildlife Habitat®!