Certified Wildlife Friendly gardens

[Catherine]

Your garden sounds wonderful. It is a safe haven for the local wildlife and it must have a wonderful loving feel to it.
Your Badgers are like our Racoons. They do love a fresh lawn to dig up. The grass will recover in time and the Badgers are hungry now.

There is something wonderful about a yard that has become natural. It can still be beautiful and orderly, but it also provides for the local fauna of all kinds.

I suppose that is why they set up the idea of certifying people's yards. It was meant to encourage them to do something for nature when they planned their landscaping.

Here the city lets Milkweed grow wild in the parks because the Monarch Butterfly caterpillars need the plant as food.

It is nice to know that we can make such a difference. My "wild" garden still needs some repair from the ice storm, but there are lots of berries to eat and the birds love it.