Gardening for Life Project
Celebrating ways we can all make a difference to preserve and protect biodiversity in the Carolina Foothills and beyond.
Conservation begins at home.
Upcoming Event - January 9, 2025 -
Come Helene and Highwaters: Rebuilding Our Natural Communities After Disaster Strikes
Presentation by Dr. JJ Apodaca, Executive Director of Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy
Gardening For Life Project 2025 Focus Areas
Create opportunities to make native plants more readily available to our community via plant sales.
Host community events that bring folks together in conversations about healthy habitats - speakers, movie nights and more!
Provide engaging resources and education to help folks move from overwhelm to action - Habitatscaping™.
Support and spotlight organizations and services that protect nature and improve habitats in the Carolina Foothills and beyond - See our Learning Center.
Promote ways that our communities can become more pollinator and habitat friendly.
Encourage a shift in thinking from “the problems are too big” to “we can make a difference!”
Recent Events
The GFLP Backstory
The GFLP is an all-volunteer community initiative that began out of a lively conversation between friends. We were discussing Doug Tallamy’s ground-breaking book, Nature’s Best Hope. Doug shares the hopeful message that, while there is an urgent need to address the ecological threats to our planet, we can each make a meaningful difference by simply beginning right outside our door, in our yards and neighborhoods. Stewardship and conservation begin at home.
With this in mind, we began to explore ways that we could share this message of hope and action with our community. Thus, the Gardening For Life Project was born.
Our first thought - “We need to bring Doug to town!” And that we did on March 4th, 2023 for the first Gardening For Life Celebration. The event was a full-on community happening with native plants vendors, educational exhibits by environmentally focused community organizations, and with none other than Doug Tallamy as our speaker. While this was a free community event, all 700 tickets for seats were reserved two months before the actual event! It was a huge success (read: Community Impact) leaving attendees and the larger community asking, “What’s Next?”
Well, the Gardening For Life Celebration 2024, of course!
What a success it was! Learn More.
Watch Jim McCormac’s Presentation
Read the latest coverage “in the news” at our Blog.
And now … stay tuned for what might be next.
GFLP Guiding Principles:
Our team believes that individually and collectively, we can improve the health of our communities and our planet, and that improvement starts right in our own yards.
By making simple changes, such as choosing native over exotic plants and removing invasive plants, we can begin to restore habitat at home, at our businesses and throughout the region.
The Gardening for Life Project promotes resources, tools and organizations that help to make these changes possible. We invite you to explore our Learning Center.
Why Gardening for Life?
By cultivating and protecting healthy diverse habitats, we are protecting all facets of life: life for pollinators, for wildlife, for healthy flora and fauna, for the individuals who live in and enjoy these spaces and for our community, as a whole.
