Do you want to know how to Take Care of Your Share of the environment while creating a wildlife friendly garden?

This website was created as a means to encourage each citizen to take responsibility for their own piece of the local environment…their own homes and yards. Our aim is to provide information to all residents, old and new alike, about what they can do as individuals to be a little more environmentally friendly at home. By making sound environmental choices on their own piece of property, we believe that each citizen can make a difference in helping to create a healthy environment throughout the world.

There is tremendous concern about how continued development will affect the local environment. But there is another important element to the preservation of the natural habitat of our country that is sometimes overlooked: the willingness of the current homeowners to do their part.

Each property owner has the opportunity to preserve, create or maintain a healthy habitat that is beneficial to local wildlife. Whether it's the planting of a tree for local bird nesting, the creation of a butterfly garden, the elimination of chemicals or the choice to leave a small corner of native plants for wildlife, each small decision is a step in the right direction for preserving the natural beauty of our county.

By eliminating chemical use, choosing plants that require less supplemental watering and replacing lawn with shade providing landscape plants, a "backyard naturalist" contributes to the health of the entire surrounding ecosystem. The result is lower electric bills, lower water bills, cleaner natural water supplies and yards that are home to birds, butterflies, gopher tortoises, herons and possibly even foxes, bobcats and deer.

We all can make a difference in the preservation of our local environment. As you go through the pages of this website, we encourage you to contact us and let us know what you find helpful or what you find lacking. If you have a suggestion for information that should be included, please let us know. In the meantime, we encourage you to take these steps to preserve your section of the local environment....your own Brevard County yard.

Together we can make a difference to the health and beauty of our entire country. We all just need to learn to Take Care of Our Share.