Finding our way toward a more ecologically vibrant garden can sometimes feel a bit challenging, and I’m always looking for resources to guide me along the way, and to share with you.  

Last year I shared news about a New York-based sustainable landscaping firm that had developed a digital self-test to help us each evaluate the ecological health of our landscape, and an accompanying 12-step program to enhance it—both of them free to use.

Now the same company, Plan It Wild, with an impressive group of collaborators that includes Doug Tallamy’s Homegrown National Park, the Wild Ones membership group, Audubon,  Cornell Lab and more, has taken the next step. They just launched the beta version of an app described as a “personalized rewilding guide for every homeowner in America” to help us decide which actions to take and what plants to use to accomplish them.

My guests today are Joanna Hall, the CEO of Plan It Wild, a Westchester, NY-based landscaping firm focused on creating biodiversity-raising native habitats, and Bram Gunther, Plant It Wild’s VP of Science & Development. We talked about the Wildr app, the new app they’ve developed to guide us as we enhance our home landscapes.

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