Homegrown National Park® (HNP) raises awareness and urgently inspires everyone to address the biodiversity crisis by adding native plants and removing invasive ones where we live, work, and play. The organization is a grassroots call-to-action that helps individuals understand the biodiversity crisis through a clear problem with a science-based solution: add native plants and remove invasive species. HNP believes that local ecosystems are losing large and growing numbers of species, reducing their ability to provide the ecosystem services we rely on, including clean air and water, flood control, pollination for our food, pest control, and carbon storage.
Homegrown National Park provides accessible, measurable tools for anyone to become a biodiversity hero. The organization maintains an interactive Biodiversity Map that tracks the total area occupied by native plants, serving as the epicenter of biodiversity regeneration by consolidating work done by individuals and organizations across the US and Canada. Their approach is based on the understanding that existing National Parks are too small and separated from one another to preserve species to needed levels. HNP extends this concept to yards and communities through a bottom-up call-to-action to restore habitat where people live and work. The organization makes participation easy, free, and accessible to everyone regardless of experience.