The focus of our 29th Native Plant Symposium is DIY Native Habitats – Building Your Stewardship Toolkit. Our suite of talks will focus on getting the right plants into your garden to support your local ecosystem. This is includes guidance on how to research them, how to identify what you already have, understanding your plant community, and considerations for local habitat restoration.

Our speakers will help you build a toolkit of purposeful choices and tools that help you at home, in designed landscapes, and when restoring habitat in the wild. Researching appropriate native plants and choosing to incorporate a major of native plants in our properties and projects makes a difference to the other inhabitants of our ecosystems: birds, butterflies, and bees.

Specialist butterflies, moths, and bees need native plants. Native plants are the first trophic layer to convert sunlight into food for insects, helping to ensure that those insects thrive. Bird populations rely on abundant insect life to sustain their populations. Our purposeful selection of plants makes a difference to these creatures.

On Day 2, we will also take some time to highlight the activities of our chapters. Our chapters are the boots on the ground folks that bring activities closer to and more regionally meaningful for our members.

Registration and schedule information is on the symposium page.