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October 2021
Class: A Holistic Guide for the Modern Land Steward
Through personal stories and observations of hundreds of installed projects, Trevor Smith covers a broad range of topics, including regenerative design, green infrastructure, adaptive strategies in the face of climate change, the importance of maintaining your own health and well being, and ways to challenge the norms in pursuit of authentic results.
Find out more »December 2021
Advanced Ecological Design Workshop with Larry Weaner
Advanced Ecological Design Workshop: Demand for high performing, ecology-based landscapes is increasing faster than the availability of the specialized knowledge needed for practitioners to achieve them. This intensive two-session course (December 1 and December 15) will provide concrete, real-world guidance for selecting and arranging native plants in gardens and restoration projects, as well as provide attendees with the opportunity to employ these techniques through an assignment between the first and second sessions.
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Class: Climate Change and Native Plants
This class will cover a brief history of climate change and address carbon and hydrological cycles, the earth’s heating and cooling systems, and the importance of wise landscape design, construction, and agriculture to mitigate climate change. We will also discuss the role of native plants in the climate change conversation.
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Class: Recording the Garden
In this webinar, we discuss strategies to track what is planted in the garden and where, where plants came from, how well plantings survive over time, which gardening practices work best for a given location, and basic phrenology concepts to help track the timing of plants’ life history events. Participants will also learn how to use garden records to track gardening experiments whose results can help inform future decisions about planting and maintenance.
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Class: Plant Nutrients
In this Plant Nutrient class, you will learn some mineral nutrient basics through an overview of soils, chemistry, and plant anatomy.
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Class: Finding Your Environmental Ethic
In this introductory webinar, you will learn four philosophical models of human relationship with nature in order to gain deeper understanding of your own and others’ environmental ethics.
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Class: Navigating Public Design, Part 1
In this class, you will learn a process for bringing stakeholders together to collaborate in creating outdoor spaces of meaning and beauty.
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Eco-tour: Gardening for Insects: Native Pollinator Garden
Join us for a unique opportunity to explore the private gardens of an inspiring insect specialist, landscape designer, and passionate nature photographer.
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Eco-tour: Native Plant Center
Join this professionally guided tour of The Native Plant Center to learn more about native plants and pollinator support.
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Eco-Tour – Flying Trillium Gardens and Preserve
We invite you join us on this guided Eco-tour to experience the beauty, diversity and sustainability of our native flora for yourself.
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Eco-tour: Exploring the Demonstration Meadows at Helia Native Nursery
ELA Eco-tour to meadows that display the rich color palettes that can be achieved using native plants. The meadows are all designed with four season interest - a feature that invites frequent visits to experience the changing views.
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Eco-tour – Private Garden in Rye, NY
Tour two private gardens in Rye, NY to learn about design choices based upon ecological principles, habitat-enhancing plant selections, and appropriate maintenance practices, all critical elements in creating healthy ecosystems.
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