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Pollinator friendly bylaws – a primer from the David Suzuki Foundation

September 27, 2022

Many of us live in cities and towns with outdated, pollinator-unfriendly grass and weed bylaws, and some of us have had to defend our habitat gardens to bylaw officers and city bureaucrats. If you are interested in working with your city or town to advance pollinator (and earth) friendly bylaws, join us for this upcoming webinar.

Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AOEM9iK7Qxa2omWbGnSqgQ?link_id=1&can_id=98f5ac64129a21ac847e3fdcdfb99529&source=email-join-us-saturday-oct-1st-for-a-municipal-bylaw-webinar&email_referrer=email_1674691&email_subject=reminder-municipal-bylaw-webinar-takes-place-this-saturday

This event is open to all so share details with your neighbours, family members and friends. Don’t worry If you cannot tune-in to the live event. All registrants will receive a recording link.

Municipal bylaws webinar

Saturday, October 1, 2 p.m. ET

(Please note this webinar is on Saturday, not Sunday.)

Municipal grass and weeds bylaws across the country are often so vaguely written and arbitrarily enforced that they can be used to discourage and/or destroy habitat gardens. In this webinar, native plant advocate and author Lorraine Johnson will outline the problems and contradictions contained in many such bylaws, discuss the legal precedents that protect habitat gardens, and offer advice for proactively working with municipalities on bylaw reform.

“A New Garden Ethic” from the David Suzuki Foundation

April 11, 2022

As part of the “Butterflyway” pollinator project, this free webinar will feature Benjamin Vogt.

In a time of mass extinction and climate change, how and for whom we garden matters more than ever.

What role do native plants have in opening us to the perspectives of others? What happens to our society when we advocate for the equality and freedom of a silent majority? Through ecology, psychology, landscape design, horticulture, philosophy, and social science, we’ll explore the rich complexity of rethinking pretty and what a garden means in the anthropocene.

Benjamin Vogt is the author of A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future and the forthcoming Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design. He has a PhD from the University of Nebraska and owns Monarch Gardens, a prairie-inspired design firm. His work has been featured in The American Gardener, Fine Gardening, Garden Design, Horticulture, and Midwest Living. Benjamin lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife and son.

Registration is here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J3P24ob7T_S_A5LI1C-avw?link_id=2&can_id=98f5ac64129a21ac847e3fdcdfb99529&source=email-butterflyway-webinar-this-sunday-ways-to-connect-3&email_referrer=email_1503846&email_subject=butterflyway-webinar-a-new-garden-ethic-april-24

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