Learning and Resources
Courses I’ve Taken
Ecology-based Landscape Practice 6-Part Intensive Course New Directions in American Landscape.
- Larry Weaner and Ian Canton teamed up to teach the processes of designing, installing, and maintaining native meadows, shrublands, and understory plantings.
New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill and New Directions in American Landscape.
- 2-day professional development in ecological landscaping
Invasive Plant Management Workshop, Harvard Conservation Trust
The Knotty Smartweeds, Native Plant Trust
- Field identification of local species in the persicaria family
Early Season Grasses, Native Plant Trust
- Identification of native and non-native cool season grasses
Asters and Goldenrods, Native Plant Trust.
- Field identification of local species in the aster and goldenrod families
New England Plant Communities, Native Plant Trust
- Field techniques for identifying a New England Plant community
Books
Planting in a Post-Wild World by Thomas Rainer
Lawns into Meadows: Growing a regenerative landscape by Owen Wormser
Regional nonprofits for native plants (unless otherwise noted)
- Grow Native Massachusetts, Lexington, MA
- Native Plant Trust, Framingham, MA
- Northeast Seed Collective, sells local ecotype seed
- Ecological Health Network, Cambridge, MA
- Blue Stem Natives, nursery specializing in native plants, Norwell, MA
- The Ecotype Project, CT
- The Wild Seed Project, sells seed, North Yarmouth, ME
- Massachusetts Government Sustainable Landscapes
- Local Pollinator or Ecological Efforts by Town
- Bolton Local Pollinator Garden
- Boxborough Steele Farm Pollinator Garden
- Harvard, Natural Companions, Local Ecotype Seeds
- Lincoln Pollinator Acton Plan
- Southborough Pollination Preservation Garden