2024 National Children & Youth Garden Symposium
Uniting youth garden educators from across the country to network, engage, collaborate, and learn from like-minded peers
View event website »Lifelong Learning: Designing Meadows and Naturalized Landscapes (Virtual)
With Kathy Connolly, a landscape designer who specializes in naturalized designs, low-impact landscape techniques, and native plants.
View event website »Lifelong Learning: Benefits of Native Grasses (Virtual)
With Dr. Mary H. Meyer, a Horticultural Sciences professor emerita at the University of Minnesota.
View event website »Lifelong Learning: Plant-Based Cosmetics (Alexandria, VA)
With Paris-trained Elodie Cally, a botanical skincare formulator who established Elodie’s Naturals in response to the unregulated US beauty market she encountered in 2016 as a soon-to-be mother.
View event website »Lifelong Learning: Ecological Horticultural Techniques (Virtual)
With Anna Fialkoff, the Arboretum Horticulturist at Connecticut College, where she supervises the management of the 750-acre Arboretum, including a 30-acre native plant collection.
View event website »Lifelong Learning: Sustainable Gardens in a Changing Climate: Adapting Practices for Resilience (Virtual)
With Angelica Patterson, an environmental educator, plant ecophysiologist, and science communicator, who is known as “The Shotgun Scientist” for her work in studying how trees respond to climate change.
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