‘WHAT IF THE first step in transforming your lawn-dominated home landscape into a place of enhanced biodiversity could be fun, educational, and free?”
That’s how I began a recent “New York Times” garden column about a digital self-test that helps you evaluate the ecological health of your landscape, and an accompanying 12-step program to enhance it—both of them free to use.
The science-based Wildr Score quiz and the Less Lawn More Life Challenge are the creations of Plan it Wild, a Westchester, N.Y.-based sustainable landscaping firm, and their work on these interactive products has already attracted the attention and collaboration of prominent ecological nonprofits, including Doug Tallamy’s Homegrown National Park, the Wild Ones national membership group, the Perfect Earth Project and Pollinator Partnership, among many others.
Plan it Wild’s aim is to help welcome a wider audience into the world of ecological landscaping with their engaging, easy-to-use tools, and help people get started learning along the way.
I took the quiz, and the subsequent challenge, and suggest that you do, too. I’ll be interested to hear what you find out!
take the quiz and get the lessons
