Mission Statement
As a joint venture between Sierra Club and Yard by Yard, we propose to aid in the establishment of areas of native plants to provide healthy, native habitat for our native pollinators and other urban wildlife. We will address some of the negative impacts of climate change by providing assistance in both designing and installing small pollinator gardens for those who do not know where to start or who are unable to make the garden happen on their own.

Pollinator
Garden
Basics

If you can, get started! Create a Pollinator Garden for our Oklahoma native plants and pollinators.

You do not have to do a complete overhaul of your yard! Start small. Start TINY, in fact. Outline a sunny area of your yard and sprinkle some pollinator plant seeds into it and see what happens!

Don't worry about removing the grass. Most prairie plants can compete just fine with our lawn grasses.

Native plants are always going to be the easiest to maintain, conserve and filter water, support crucial pollinators, and sequester carbon.

Leave your leaves! Many vital pollinators overwinter in leaves. Fireflies spend the first 2 years of their lives living as glow worms in leaf litter. Leave the leaves. This means less yard work for you!

It is important to eliminate all insecticides and pesticides, even in the soil you purchase. These can work their way into the soil and then into a host or nectar plant, then your pollinators will die.

Place a sign letting your neighbors know what you are doing and create an edge so they know the change is intentional.

Keystone plants are everything! One keystone plant can support dozens, hundreds(!), of different pollinator species. You can learn more about Keystone Plants by visiting Keystone Plants by Ecoregion at The National Wildlife Federation web site.

We partner with the following organizations:


A note from the author

Help us plant the seeds of change.

“If half of American lawns were replaced with native plants, we could create the equivalent of a 20 million acre national park, nine times bigger than Yellowstone, or 100 times bigger than Shenandoah National Park.”

—Douglas Tallamy