During this two day workshop, you will learn about how to utilize native plants that play a critical role in the life cycles of our indigenous wildlife. The workshop will be interactive, and we will discuss how to assess your current garden.Click here to sign up.
During this two day workshop, you will learn about how to utilize native plants that play a critical role in the life cycles of our indigenous wildlife. The workshop will be interactive, and we will discuss how to assess your current garden. Click here to sign up.
03/13/22 Invite a Monarch to Lunch, 2-3:30 Trecia Neal For twenty years, Trecia Neal has served as a Monarch Watch Conservation Specialist for the Southeast. Learn about the biology, ecology, and migration to Mexico of the monarch butterfly. Monarch population declines and efforts to help monarchs recover will be discussed. Sign up for classes here.
Feel Empowered to Prune 04/16/23, 2 pm - 3:30 pm Barbara Dorfman Learn how, why, and when, to prune. With the right tools, gardeners and homeowners can do the job themselves or supervise family members, instead of being at the mercy of unskilled landscapers with hedge trimmers and chainsaws. Click here to sign up.
Join Us at Beech Hollow Farm for Earth Day Tanner will lead a walk through the Sun and Shade Gardens at 11:00. At 12:30 he will give a short presentation on Native Pollinators. This is a free event and preseentation, please click here to RSVP. Meanwhile, Tanner and I are working on some special wildflower...
Join us in Avondale for Earth Day: Avondale ACTion is sponsoring an Earth Day Celebration in Avondale 2-5pm at the new town green pavilion. More info here.
04/24/22 Composting 2pm - 3:30 pm Trecia Neal Stop throwing out the other black gold: nutrients. Learn hands-on how to take garden debris and turn it into rich, water-holding compost, perfect for droughts. Trecia Neal will present the best way to create compost in your landscape. Click here to sign up.
05/07/23 One Butterfly at a Time 2pm - 3:30 pm, Pandra Williams Free presentation with pictures and handouts about butterflies native to the Piedmont area and their nectaring, general habitat and larval host needs.
09/18/22 Gardening for Wildlife 2pm - 3:30 pm, Andrea Greco Learn to select, arrange and maintain the native plants that play a critical role in the life cycles of the birds,bees, butterflies and other beloved creatures we want to attract to our yards. Sign up here:
Red Wigglers galore! In this exciting hands-on workshop Trecia Neal from Green Gardens Education & Designs, participants will learn how worms called red wigglers eat food waste and turn it into nutrient rich compost, be given activities on vermicomposting, and leave with their own worm bin. Click here for sign up information.
