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Integrating Biodiversity and Beauty: Cultivating Keystone Plants with Community Acceptance.

Now more than ever our yards and community spaces need to support biodiversity. How can we ensure that our spaces are both ecologically rich and beautiful? In this fast-paced, practical workshop, we’ll look at which plants matter most when it comes to your local biodiversity; how to procure them for generous plantings; and how to place and care for them to increase their visual appeal. We’ll consider strategies to ensure that our landscapes gain community acceptance such that they become invitations for others to transform their landscapes. A cost-conscious, DIY approach makes taking action doable. Along with a detailed handout, you’ll come away inspired and empowered to invite more biodiversity into your spaces. Sarah F. Jayne has worked intensively with plants and wildlife for over four decades from California to the East Coast. She earned a degree in agriculture from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and later owned and operated an organic market farm and nursery. Inspired by Doug Tallamy’s Bringing Nature Home, Sarah transformed her approach to landscaping. Recognizing the pivotal role that each person can play in addressing the biodiversity crisis, she trials methods to manage ecological landscapes that enable people who may have limited resources and little or no gardening skills to encourage biodiverse ecosystems that support wildlife where they live. Her book Nature’s Action Guide: How to Support Biodiversity and Your Local Ecosystem, a companion to Doug Tallamy’s Nature’s Best Hope, features 15 actions we urgently need to take to support biodiversity. Sarah lives in Oxford, Pennsylvania surrounded by wildlife habitat. Find out more about Sarah at www.naturesactionguide.org. Free and opened to the public.