Lund Gathering Place Plant list
Our next meeting is Thursday Nov 7th and our speaker is Emony Nicholls. Doors open at 6pm, and the meeting begins at 6:30pm at the Rollo Centre. Capacity is limited to 65, first come first served.
Emony has worked as an environmental consultant, entrepreneur and biologist for the last 25 years. For seven of those years, she owned and operated a native plant nursery in Ontario providing plants for and designing ecological restoration projects in the most easterly tallgrass prairie in North America. Her graduate research was on the relationship between pollinators and plants and how it drives the evolution of life history traits in plants (age, sex, growth, etc.). As part of her work, she did taxonomic identification of the native pollinators and fell in love with them, their diversity and individual beauty. She is now on a mission to educate others about them in the hopes that they will fall in love with them too! She recently left work with the provincial government as an ecosystems biologist and now lives and works on Salt Spring Island.
Topic of presentation: Ecological Gardening
In this talk, we will explore the wide-ranging aspects of ecological gardening and how we can support our natural systems even on a small scale. Seeing the garden as an interconnected ecology, we will cover topics such as how to support soil health, incorporating drought/flood tolerant garden principles, water harvesting, supporting native insects, birds, and wildlife through native plants while choosing low impact methods and materials. Let’s think to the future and ask what we can do to help mother nature!
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