July 2020
Virtual Eco-Tour: Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary
This virtual tour will highlight many of these habitats and native plants including: Meadowscapes, both wet and dry, Native orchids, Liatris, Actaea, Pycnanthemum, Solidago, and much more.
Find out more »Class: Soil: The Solution Beneath Our Feet
Conducted online: Learn soil basics, then expand your understanding. Find out how soil affects plants’ health, supports sustainability, and combats climate change.
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Class: Structural Plant Combinations
Conducted online: Structural shrubs and trees are essential elements in memorable gardens, providing both ambiance and organizing principles in the landscape.
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Class: Shade Gardens: Embracing the Dark Side
Conducted online: Create lush and vibrant shady gardens by learning how to infuse more color, adventure, and intrigue into those sometimes difficult spaces.
Find out more »September 2020
Webinar: Deer-Resistant Native Groundcovers
Create a living mulch that provides seasonal beauty, is beneficial to wildlife, and moderates soil temperature and moisture.
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Webinar: Why Rain Gardens Fail and Tools for Success
With appropriate planning, design, construction, and maintenance, rain gardens, bio-swales, and other stormwater treatment workhorses can be an artistic part of our landscapes, gardens, streetscapes, and public spaces.
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Webinar: Field Notes – A Holistic Guide for the Modern Land Steward
This webinar 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 »October 2020
Webinar: Designing with Ferns – The Dependable and the Divisive
Discover the important ecological role of ferns in the landscape and how they are affected by mammal populations and soil conditions.
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Webinar: Meadows – If You Build It They Will Come
This presentation offers a glimpse into the rich species diversity that comes from establishing a meadow and making the right choices from design through maintenance.
Find out more »November 2020
Webinar: The Challenges and Complexities of Ecological Gardens – A 5-year Journal of Discoveries
Ms. Silvia will share the process, challenges, and discoveries she has made while managing concept, design, installation, plants, and daily maintenance of the landscape.
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Webinar: A Stick in the Spokes – Meaningful Interventions in Landscape Systems
How do we embrace principles of regenerative design on private land parcels where functional needs preclude true rewilding? What happens when we invite and then interrupt the feedback loop in some aspects of a place, but not in others? Join this webinar to learn more.
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Webinar: Evaluating Soil Health
This webinar will explore quantifying soil health through laboratory analyses included in the Comprehensive Assessment of Soil Health (CASH) and will address management strategies for improving and maintaining soil health under different cropping systems.
Find out more »December 2020
Webinar: What’s Growing on at Monticello?
Monticello gardening initiatives which include developing an innovative farming center highlighting Thomas Jefferson’s connection to food, farming, and civic agriculture.
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Webinar: Creating Outdoor Spaces that Connect Children to the Natural World
With rich, inspiring images from around the world, author, educator, and landscape designer Nancy Striniste explains why and how to bring the beauty, adventure, and sustainability of nature play to backyards, schoolyards, churchyards, neighborhood parks, early childhood settings, and more.
Find out more »January 2021
Webinar: Expanding Biodiversity – Attracting Birds to Your Yard
This presentation emphasizes the importance of planting natives as both a sustainable approach to gardening and an opportunity to attract birds to your yard.
Find out more »February 2021
Webinar: The American Oaks – Diversity, Ecology, and Identification
Familiarity with oaks is vital for anyone looking to garden for biodiversity. Tim will show us how to identify most of the twelve species native to New England and offer guidance on species selection, installation, and maintenance for establishing oak trees in our managed landscapes.
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Webinar: Oak Red-List Project – Main Threats to Oaks and Saving Oaks from Extinction
In this presentation, Dr. Westwood will discuss the economic, ecological, and cultural value of oaks, and will explain the threats each species faces and the conservation efforts underway to save the oaks.
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