Getting Started With Native Plants: Creating a Thriving Habitat

Co-Sponsored by Dayton Area Wild Ones

Join us for an informational, inspirational and FUN symposium on native plants and their role in creating healthy, functioning ecoystems. Highlights of the day include:

• A special viewing (not showing anywhere else locally!) of the new film "The Extraordinary Caterpillar," a beautifullly-shot, 60-minute documentary that reveals the vital - and often overlooked - roles caterpillars play in our ecosystems.
• A post-screening Q&A with butterfly and moth expert Elisabeth Rothschild, who will share her experience in attracting lepidoptera to her yard.
• A special how-to on increasing the habitat potential of your native landscape trees with "soft landings," with Dr. Ryan McEwan.
• A Quick-Start Guide to Native Plant Gardening with Macy Reynolds, who will tell you everything you don't yet know about building biodiversity on your land from the ground up.
• A closing panel with our speakers to bring together all we've learned answer any and all of your remaining questions about native plant gardening.

Doors open at 8:30 am. for registration and a light breakfast. Our program will begin promptly at 9 am.

Coming soon: speaker bios & pictures, the symposium schedule.

Registration Fee of $40 includes light breakfast, lunch, and education materials.