April 2020
Class: Navigating Public Design, Part 2
(Conducted as a live webinar.) In this half-day workshop, we will build on the stakeholder collaboration processes to navigate public designs.
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Webinar: Adventures with Oddities: Strange and Noteworthy Native Plants
A Walk in the Garden Free Series: From unique flavors to hilarious names to the oddest survival strategies, there are strange and noteworthy plants right outside our back doors if we simply know where to look.
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Webinar: Pollinator Ecology
A Walk in the Garden Free Series: Take a garden walk to learn the basics of pollination ecology as well as how to maximize food production by encouraging both native and exotic pollinators.
Find out more »Class: Tips and Techniques for Healthy Seedling Starts
(Conducted as a live webinar.) Learn basic yet critical propagation techniques for successful seedling starts.
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Webinar: Save the Pollinators! Save the Planet!
A Walk in the Garden Free Series Beyond providing sustenance for our six legged friends, discover how your garden can play a substantial role in rebuilding the local ecosystem and helping create climate resilience.
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Webinar: Planting Design Considerations
A Walk in the Garden Free Series: As spring ramps up, we look at the garden with an eye to the plants. First, we will think about plants in terms of their form and function, and then learn some strategies to best lay out our planting plans.
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Class: Building the Green Industry
(Conducted as a live webinar) You will learn opportunities, challenges, and strategies to guide your own projects in the green industry.
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Class: Eco-restorative Garden Design
(Conducted as a live webinar) Eco-restorative Garden Design: Topics cover everything from removing invasives to analyzing the site, conserving resources, and enhancing aesthetics and wildlife habitat.
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Class: Native Plant Design for Human Health
Learn the theories behind healing landscapes and elements of healing gardens that you can integrate into your own projects.
Find out more »Class: Our Future with Water: Stormwater Management Strategies
Based on decades of experience, this stormwater management guide will address rain harvesting, permeable pavements, green roofs, bioswales and rain gardens, and tree planting.
Find out more »Class: Landscape Design for Changing Site Conditions
This advanced design session includes a set of hands-on exercises to challenge our perspectives and to instill flexibility in our approach.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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