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November 2020
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.
Find out more »Class: NGICP – December 2020
The program provides the foundational understanding needed to properly design and oversee construction, inspection, and maintenance of green stormwater infrastructure. Designed to meet international best practice standards, this program provides candidates with the technical skills necessary to incorporate green infrastructure into projects successfully.
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Class: History and Principles of Landscape Design
Over four afternoons, this class will explore Eastern and Western garden design, including long-practiced principles that encourage sustainable and ecological approaches.
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Class: Garden Design for Child Development
In this class, you will learn how to design a children’s garden that appeals to all five senses, evokes playfulness and learning, and instills a love of nature that will grow into stewardship and environmental sensitivity.
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Class: Plant Nutrients
In this course, you will learn some mineral nutrient foundations through an overview of soils, chemistry, and plant anatomy. Then we will explore how plants acquire, use, and translocate mineral nutrients.
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Class: NGICP National Green Infrastructure Certification Program – February
The NGICP program provides the foundation understanding needed to properly design and oversee construction, inspection, and maintenance of green stormwater infrastructure.
Find out more »March 2021
Class: Expanding Your Business with Green Infrastructure: Five Tools to Incorporate this Season
With detailed discussion and project photos, Trevor will introduce you to five practical Green Infrastructure tools. He will share his two decades of practical experience designing, installing, and improving stormwater management systems. The class will include time for Trevor to address your questions on these GSI tools.
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Webinar: Foliage & Focal Points: Ideas for Budgets and Gardens of All Sizes
With ideas for budgets and gardens of all sizes, you will quickly gain the confidence and knowledge to transform your own landscape into a cohesive series of eye-catching scenes.
Find out more »April 2021
Class: Navigating Public Design – Part 1
When designing public spaces, understand how to use your creative ideas to build partnerships, develop fundraisers, overcome obstacles, and draw visitors to your public landscape.
Find out more »Webinar: Proper Planting Practices: Are We Landscaping in a Deficit Model?
In this presentation, Richard McCoy will provide information on current techniques of proper planting, how to correct unseen issues that are borne in the landscape nursery, the importance of the plant root collar, plant placement by matching site conditions to a plant’s cultural needs, and how these efforts add value.
Find out more »Webinar: Maximizing Space in the Garden: Creating More of a Good Thing
This presentation describes how to create layers in varied habitats including the perennial, berry, and vegetable gardens. The result is visually fulfilling, low maintenance, and mulch-eliminating when plants go wall-to-wall.
Find out more »Webinar: Creating Community with Our Insect Neighbors
Learn about common insects in our communities and how to support them.
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