• RainScaping: Nature-inspired Solutions to Manage Home Runoff

    Instructor: Peggy Campbell
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    --Rainwater running off residential properties washes pollutants – such as garden chemicals, sediment and bacteria – from yards, roofs and hard surfaces and into local waterways.

  • What’s Buzzing? Supporting Pollinators in Your Backyard 

    Instructor: Lisa DeVetter
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    --Pollination is essential for the development of many of our favorite fruits and vegetables. Insects provide most of our pollination services, but many species are in decline.

  • School Gardens: Growing Food, Growing Learning, Growing Support  

    Instructor: Laurie Williams
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    --K-12 School Gardens are growing around the globe. These outdoor classrooms and living laboratories are important for connecting student learning in all subjects and helping students become nature's stewards.

  • Finding Our Way Home: Native Plants in the Garden 

    Instructor: Robin O'Quinn
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    --This presentation explores how our goals and expectations as gardeners may be at odds with the biological truths of natural systems ...

  • Nutrient Decline in Vegetables 

    Instructor: Muriel Nesbitt
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    --Over the past several decades a decline has been noted in the nutrient density of vegetables and other plant-derived foods...

  • Plant Galls: Beauty and the Beast 

    Instructor: Christine Heycke
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    --You may have seen colorful, bumpy or fuzzy structures on leaves or stems and wondered what they were.

  • Waterwise Landscaping 

    Instructor: Kris Moberg-Hendron
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    --We all want to reduce our water bill and minimize the time required to maintain a beautiful landscape.