Backyard Habitats
Create a Wildlife Habitat Right in Your Backyard!
Wildlife needs our help. Human activity has changed and eliminated habitat, locally, and on the global scale, and birds, butterflies and other wildlife are pushed into ever-shrinking wilderness areas.
You can make a difference. You can invite wildlife back to your own yard and neighborhood by planting a simple garden that provides habitat. Imagine your garden teeming with singing songbirds, colorful butterflies, flitting hummingbirds, and other small wildlife.
Our yard here at the house that serves as the main hub of activity for Barrington PAW is Certified as a Wildlife Habitat! You can do it too! Learn more HERE.
Learn More about the Million Pollinator Garden Challenge!
The yard at Barrington PAW headquarters on Barneyville Road in Barrington is also part of the Million Pollinator Garden Challenge. Learn more about why pollinators matter and how you can help them right in your own backyard by clicking HERE. We can #beefriendly Barrington!
Interested in learning more about how to create pollinator and wildlife settings right in your own backyard? Here are few quick tips, but also be sure to visit some of the great website listed below.
- Use native plants and be sure to have several types that bloom at different times
- Limit and ideally eliminate the use of pesticides
- Provide water - a shallow dish of water (with rocks so bees don't drown) will do the trick
- Leave the weeds and minimize fall clean-up
Learn more!