Connecting thousands of healthy gardeners.
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Your garden can grow a green future for wildlife and people in your neighbourhood.
Healthy Garden Points Join community. Explore nature. Share. Help wildlife. Get climate-smart. Count your garden in today. Start now BEFORE you plant.
Earn Healthy Garden Points
Show your garden’s contribution to healthy neighbourhoods for wildlife and people.
The Tracker guides you through 10 basic features of healthy gardens that you can easily measure.
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Who should use the Tracker?
Everyone can participate. You don’t need to be doing anything special in your yard or garden or have special knowledge before you start. Your privacy is protected and you control your data. You can register any space like a yard, field, balcony, garden project or community garden of any size. The Tracker is compatible with most other garden and conservation programs and is used by a growing network of partners.
No Garden? You can earn Healthy Garden Points by building community, watching wildlife, sharing, helping others, container gardening or planning a healthy garden. These factors are all important in growing healthy neighbourhoods.
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What do I get?
You will earn Healthy Garden Points. Plus, the Tracker will give you tips about healthy gardens. When completed, you will unlock unique garden guides, an expert hotline and a network of partners. Your Healthy Garden Points can be redeemed for garden signs, plants or other perks at special events and partner businesses.
Get Ready.
When should I use the Tracker?
Register your garden now BEFORE you start planting!
- Use the Tracker the first time to register, establish your garden baseline and unlock valuable resources. You can start with an existing garden, an empty space or a desire to help wildlife or your neighbourhood.
- Use the Tracker again every growing season to see watch your Healthy Garden Points grow.
Get Set.
How does it work?
The Tracker will guide you through 10 basic features of healthy gardens that you can easily measure. Healthy Garden Points reflect healthy gardening choices linked to the science of biodiversity and healthy landscapes using ecological, social and economic indicators. Whether you are growing one wildflower in a pot, planning a wildlife garden or planting a field of trees, you’ll be creating space that offers food and shelter to a diversity of wildlife, while improving the health of your neighbourhood.
Unlock a healthy future.
Why should I use the Tracker?
The Tracker is a fun, easy way to live green and measure your positive impact. You can:
- Connect with thousands to crowd-source local habitat
- Unlock valuable resources and connections
- Fill tough-to-grow spots with natural beauty
- Find low maintenance, drought-tolerant plants
- Prepare your yard for extreme weather
- Save water, energy, time and money
- Connect with experts and partner groups
- Get climate-smart
- Grow resilient landscapes
- Connect to nature
- Help wildlife
- Grow healthy neighbourhoods
- Leverage more action
- Engage people of all ages
- Grow a green future
- Count your garden in!
- Other? You tell us!
Tracker Tips
Respond based on your current garden conditions and level of knowledge. If you are unsure or don’t have much to report, that is okay!
Rough estimates are acceptable. As you continue with In the Zone, you will be able to fill in the gaps and watch your garden grow healthier.
Complete the Tracker to unlock great resources!
We welcome your feedback.
Privacy
We will not share your personal information without your permission. We will use metadata from the In the ZoneTracker to inform our charitable efforts to protect biodiversity. You may request your data to be returned to you at any time. You will receive further contact from WWF-Canada and Carolinian Canada, so please review both organization's privacy policies:
Carolinian Canada's Privacy Policy