Check what your property offers wildlife — native plants, water, cover, pollinator plants, no pesticides — and get a 0–100 habitat score plus the moves that matter most. Free, instant, tuned for the Texas Hill Country.
Open the Habitat Health Score →A yard is alive when it offers wildlife four things: native plants, water, cover, and a place to raise young — managed without synthetics. The tool checks eight of those features and scores them 0 to 100. Most clean-cut lawns land in the 20s and 30s.
The biggest single jump is native plants: cross 50% native and you've turned a pollinator desert into a food web. The next is dropping synthetic pesticides and herbicides — that's what lets the insects, and everything that eats them, come back.
Habitat is built in layers — canopy, understory, ground, and leaf litter — each one feeding different animals. Native plants anchor it, because native insects evolved to eat native leaves, and those insects are what birds and lizards eat. Add a water source and a little cover — a brush pile, dead wood, an unraked corner — and the property starts holding life year-round.
The fastest way to undo all of it is a bag of synthetic pesticide or weed-and-feed. Drop the synthetics and the food web rebuilds itself. We never invent a number we can't stand behind — the score is just the fundamentals, weighted by what they actually do.
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