The USA has 40 million acres of lawn

The US has 40 million acres of lawn. That’s almost as much as all the country’s national parks combined and most of it does almost nothing for nature.

If you replaced just half of those lawns with native plants, you could create a park 9 times bigger than Yellowstone (already 2.2 million acres!) in size.

And native plants don’t just look good. They do good too. They support up to 15 times more local caterpillar species, which means more food for birds, more pollinators, more life.

We’ve already seen these effects play out in our pocket forests around the world. In our 33 London forests alone, our community have observed 192 species, spanning mammals, birds, invertebrates, and fungi!

And it’s not just nature that benefits.

Lawns suck up 9 billion gallons of water each day. That’s about a third of all residential water use in the US. Meanwhile, many native plants thrive with little to no watering once they’re established. SUGi Pocket Forests are often entirely self-sustaining in a matter of years.

So, if you’re wondering whether you should go for a lawn or native species?

Go wild.