Backyard Habitat
 Sustainable Gardening
It’s important to create and maintain your backyard habitat while protecting the health of your family, pets, community, and the wildlife that visit your garden. These sustainable gardening techniques will help you learn how.
Why Use Sustainable Garden Practices?
- Save some green: Sustainable gardening saves you money! You will reduce the amount of money that you spend on water and chemical fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides.
- Keep the food web intact: Insects are an important part of any ecosystem. They are food for birds and other small animals, and many of them eat the insects that eat your plants. So instead of breaking up the food web by using pesticides to eliminate insects, let nature take its course.
 Protect water quality: Yard pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers degrade water quality when these chemicals get into storm drains and waterways. Once in water, these chemicals can kill fish and other aquatic life. Chemical-free yard practices help protect our watersheds and the humans and wildlife that depend on them.- A safe yard for kids and pets: Many common chemicals used in yards are toxic to humans and pets when ingested, inhaled, or applied to the skin. Pesticides and other chemicals are often flammable and corrosive and, when applied to the yard, can then be accidentally tracked into the home.
- Less work in your garden: Once your garden is established sustainably, you can spend less time watering, weeding, and applying chemicals and more time watching wildlife and enjoying your yard.
Let’s Get Started!
Remove Invasive Plants
Reduce Your Lawn and Increase Habitat Quality
Build Healthy Soil and Reduce Chemical Use
Be Smart with Water
Next up: Remove Invasive Plants
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