Gnomes for Natives, LLC offers complete and customizable help for homes and businesses looking to establish native or edible gardens. Contact us or email us at GnomesForNatives@gmail.com to start your journey!
· Replacing turfgrass with native plants is less work for you and vastly better for the environment. Once established, natives require little maintenance, and no watering or fertilizers.
· Native plants provide food, shelter and habitat for the critters around us – insects, butterflies, birds, small mammals, and more.
· Your personalized design gives you unique and fabulous blooms all season long!
· American lawns take up more land than any other agricultural crop – three times more land than corn! (C. Milesia, 2005)
· 7 billion gallons of water are used daily to water lawns – about a third of household water use. (Kaysen, 2019)
· Turf lawns are net carbon emitters, primarily through fertilizers, pesticides and ever-growing water use. (Zhang, 2022)
· Lawns are ecological deserts, providing little food or habitat – for wildlife and for ourselves
We do free consultations starting with an on-site visit to discuss your needs and goals. Let's build a vision!
The cost of a design is variable depending on project complexity - we'll give you a quote at consultation.
Prices will vary according to what we plan. We can create a garden for any size budget or piece of land!
Click here to see examples of our garden transformations!
Join us at Gnome Headquarters for hands-on workshops on gardening, urban homesteading, backyard chickens, and crafts. Our goal is to give you the tools to live more sustainably – and happily, too!
C. Milesia, e. a. (2005). A Strategy for Mapping and Modeling the Ecological Effects of US Lawns. ISPRS Proceedings, website. Retrieved from https://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVI/8-W27/milesi.pdf
Kaysen, R. a. (2019, 4 10). One Thing You Can Do: Reduce Your Lawn. Retrieved from New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/climate/climate-newsletter-lawns.html
Zhang, Y. e. (2022, 5). Is urban green space a carbon sink or source? - A case study of China based on LCA method. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, website. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195925522000324