Birds are vanishing—and habitat loss is the biggest reason why.
MNBC’S Yard by Yard program helps you fight back, right outside your door.
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Bringing Birds Home, One Yard at a Time
Native plants bring birds back. Whether you have a yard, balcony, or business, you can create meaningful habitat right where you are.
Each yard has the power to heal habitat. Across the Midwest, native plant communities have been replaced by turf grass and ornamental landscapes that do little for wildlife. Our Yard by Yard program helps homeowners, schools, and businesses restore habitat—right outside their doors.
Through free resources, presentations, and site consults, we guide Minnesotans in choosing native plants, creating habitat, and supporting insects—the foundation of the bird food web. Whether you’re planting a garden bed or rewilding your entire lawn, we’re here to help you make it count. Together, we're rebuilding the habitat birds need—yard by yard.
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Whether you manage a yard, garden, small business, school or corporate campus, you can restore vital habitat and make a real difference for birds, butterflies, pollinators - and people
Learn how to turn you yard, balcony, or shared green space into bird and pollinator habitat
Create meaningful green space that benefits birds and people alike.