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April 2021
Class: Eco-Restorative Garden Design
Explore the principles and specific steps to keep you engaged and confident in small-scale restoration projects.
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Class: Deer-Tolerant Landscapes
Join us to learn about deer behavior and natural preventative measures to safeguard your garden.
Find out more »August 2021
Class: Shade Gardens: Embracing the Dark Side
This shade gardening workshop blends site-specific assessment, design strategies, and plant options to help enliven your imagination.
Find out more »Class: Navigating Public Design – Part 2
In this workshop, we will build on the stakeholder collaboration processes to focus on vision-driven partnerships and fundraising.
Find out more »September 2021
Class: Cultivating Your Plant Communities
In this three-part workshop, learn to identify appropriate native plants and groupings for your site and create a personalized plant palette and design that is beautiful and enhances biodiversity.
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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: 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: 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: 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.
Find out more »March 2022
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.
Find out more »June 2022
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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