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Tag: Habitat Gardening

  • Wednesday, February 24, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Nurturing Native Plants and Pollinators

    This February 24 Tower Hill Botanic Garden webinar with instructor Daphne Minner beginning at 6:30 pm will provide gardeners with guidance on how to make their yards more resilient to the effects of climate change. The focus will be on the basics of habitat gardening and how simple changes in your lawn can make a big difference in the bigger ecological landscape. Once you register you will receive a zoom link in the confirmation. These workshop are RECORDED and offered ONLY TO THOSE WHO HAVE REGISTERED for 2 WEEKS.

    $10 for Tower Hill members, $15 for nonmembers. Register at www.towerhillbg.org.

  • Thursdays, October 1 & 8, 5:45 – 7:45 pm – Habitat Gardening

    The Cambridge Center for Adult Education will offer a two session course led by Kim DeAndrade and Ellen Sousa on Habitat Gardening. You don’t need to get in the car and drive somewhere to enjoy nature. By learning to create a backyard habitat, you can create a sanctuary for songbirds, butterflies, and people, right in your own backyard. In this two-session course, for beginners or experienced gardeners, you will learn how and what to plant to attract various kinds of wildlife; how birds, dragonflies, bats, and beneficial insects all provide free pest control; plus other ecological gardening techniques. They will walk you through the process of providing the four elements that wildlife need: food, water, cover, and places to rear their young. They will explain how your property, large or small, can become a National Wildlife Federation-certified backyard wildlife habitat. Beautiful photos of New England habitat gardens will inspire you and wash away any remaining post-winter doldrums. Help create habitat, one yard at a time! Limited to 16.
    Sec. 01: 2 Thursdays, 5:45-7:45 pm. Oct. 1 & 8, 56 Brattle St. | $75
    Course Code: HABG–1
    To register, log on to www.ccae.org.
    Ends on: October 08, 2009
    Price:75.00