Nature at Home
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Collapse ▲Nature at Home Certification Program
Would you like to learn how to make your yard, garden, or porch a healthy habitat for native plants, birds, butterflies, and other wildlife? Are you interested in being part of a movement to restore crucial biodiversity to your home landscape? The Nature at Home program is here to help! Apply now to have Master GardenerSM volunteers visit your property to identify native and invasive plants and share simple practices to better equip your growing spaces to enable pollinators to flourish. If your property doesn’t currently qualify for certification as a wildlife-friendly habitat, we will recommend steps to help you move in that direction. When your property meets the qualifications you will receive an attractive Nature at Home sign to display to help spread the word about what we can do to restore our local ecosystem. If you are not interested in certification and simply want to chat about your garden with knowledgeable volunteers, we are happy to do that.
Who is eligible? This opportunity is available to all residents of New Hanover County, and any size yard or garden is eligible. Site visits are scheduled from April 15 to November 15 so observations can be made during the growing season when foliage is abundant for identification.
The $30 application fee may be paid by mail via a check payable to New Hanover County, OR in person via check, cash, or card. The NC ExtensionAdministration Office is located at the Arboretum, 6206 Oleander Drive, Wilmington NC 28403. As soon as possible after payment has been received and processed a Nature at Home Ambassador will contact the applicant to schedule a site visit.
Nature at Home Ambassadors are Master Gardener volunteers with specialized training in native plants, local ecology, and research-based practices for restoring our natural ecosystems to benefit people, birds, pollinators, and other wildlife. Your Ambassador team will review your property in a pre-scheduled site visit that typically lasts one hour. You will also receive a folder filled with helpful resource materials. Within two weeks of the visit you will receive a detailed written report specific to your garden and full of recommendations you can implement. Properties may be certified after a site visit if qualifications are met. If not, a later revisit may be scheduled up to two years later at no additional cost. Our goal is to help your garden to become a wildlife-friendly habitat, and to have a sign to let others know how to do the same.
Nature at Home is brought to you by NC State Extension with support from the Extension Master Gardener Volunteer Association of New Hanover County, the New Hanover County Arboretum, and Cape Fear Audubon Society. NAH received nationwide recognition in 2023 as a recipient of the National Association of Counties Achievement Award for innovative county government programs.