Location
Date & Time
11:00am EDT - 1:00pm EDT
About This Webinar
A well-made home landscape should be full of life, human and otherwise, providing infinite daily opportunities to experience that glorious multiplicity of things and living processes.
Wildness is a renewable resource. Inviting a bit of authentic wildness into your garden is the most rewarding way to create a truly vibrant landscape that will sustain both the gardeners and a stunning array of local and regional biodiversity.
Rather than maintaining plants in fixed patterns, gardens that welcome wildness embrace the resiliency of managed, self-perpetuating plant communities.
In this Earth Day webinar, Rick Darke will discuss in detail the dynamic nature of wild gardening. Using examples of landscapes he's designed or co-designed, he'll demonstrate how this approach is sensibly ecological and eminently practical for homeowners who wish to adopt a meaningful stewardship model for their home habitat.
Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of wildness as a continuum, a renewed awareness of its presence in everyday life, and a framework for creating landscapes that are both functional and rooted in place.
This event is a fundraiser for Homegrown National Park and Wild Ones.
About This Webinar
A well-made home landscape should be full of life, human and otherwise, providing infinite daily opportunities to experience that glorious multiplicity of things and living processes.
Wildness is a renewable resource. Inviting a bit of authentic wildness into your garden is the most rewarding way to create a truly vibrant landscape that will sustain both the gardeners and a stunning array of local and regional biodiversity.
Rather than maintaining plants in fixed patterns, gardens that welcome wildness embrace the resiliency of managed, self-perpetuating plant communities.
In this Earth Day webinar, Rick Darke will discuss in detail the dynamic nature of wild gardening. Using examples of landscapes he's designed or co-designed, he'll demonstrate how this approach is sensibly ecological and eminently practical for homeowners who wish to adopt a meaningful stewardship model for their home habitat.
Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of wildness as a continuum, a renewed awareness of its presence in everyday life, and a framework for creating landscapes that are both functional and rooted in place.
This event is a fundraiser for Homegrown National Park and Wild Ones.
Location
Date & Time
11:00am EDT - 1:00pm EDT
Teaser Video
Speaker Bio
Rick Darke is an award-winning landscape designer, author, photographer, and educator known for shaping how we think about wildness in managed landscapes. His work bridges ecology, cultural geography and aesthetics, showing that residential landscapes can be biologically rich and visually compelling at the same time.
Rick has collaborated with leading ecological thinkers including Douglas Tallamy and co-authored influential books such as The Living Landscape, The Wild Garden: Expanded Edition and Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes. His now-classic book The American Woodland Garden was among the first to employ first-hand studies of wild habitats to provide landscape design and management strategies based on living processes.
Through decades of design, writing, and teaching, Rick has advanced the idea that wildness need not be something separate from our daily lives, but is instead essential to connecting us with the extraordinarily interwoven web of life we call Nature.