Community Native Planting Project is focused on raising awareness about how native plants are key to tackling an array of ecological and environmental problems. 

 

Founded in 2023 as a 501(c) organization based in Prince George’s County, Maryland, CNPP grew out of a backyard, pandemic project of Cheverly neighbors, Anna Hawkins, Chelsea Henderson, Diane Beedle, and Kate Keplinger. 

 

Seeing unhealthy greenspaces overrun with invasives and the virtual dead zones filled with nonnatives and turf grass, the four neighbors decided to turn these sites  into beautiful, vibrant and healthy spaces. They began by removing invasives and turf grass, adding native plants, and using sound landscaping and stormwater management practices so that the spaces were performing a variety of ecological functions.  ​

 

As time passed and the power of the work they were doing with other volunteers became undeniable, the decision to expand the scope and reach of CNPP was made. 

 

CNPP now has over 300 volunteers putting in thousands of hours each year. They clear invasives and plant natives on its 12 sites, run the native shrub giveaway, and conduct educational and outreach programs. CNPP has partnered with 25 different groups and assisted hundreds of our neighbors with their environmental stewardship efforts. 

 

Join CNPP in planting with a purpose!