Learn how to help Mother Nature and improve your own health while creating positive change in the world.
The secret is out!!!! Gardening can enhance your life by reducing stress and promoting relaxation, providing exercise, and even aiding cognitive function.
Gardening can, at the very same time, help Mother Nature heal.
Remember the fun of catching fireflies? Imagine a garden where happy grandchildren can find fireflies to catch. Follow a salamander. Discover a frog! The stress free fun of enjoying nature. Imagine neighbors pausing to admire your yard—not just for its beauty, but for the care it shows for the natural world.
Whether you’re a bird lover, butterfly enthusiast, flower fanatic, or chore avoider, this course invites you to join the movement toward joyful, nature-friendly gardening.
Session 1 – Landscape Elements of Natural Gardening
Session 2 – Plants/Designs to attract birds, butterflies, and bees
Session 3 – City Garden how-to’s (make neighbors happy too!)
Session 4 – Cottage Gardens and Xeric gardening
Optional field trips may be added to deepen the experience.
What to expect:
We will surely catch Reenie’s enthusiasm by sharing in her humor and joy as we learn. Over the course of four sessions, we will explore:
- Why planting with nature is likely to be the biggest contribution we can make towards our grandchildren’s future
- Landscape elements of a nature friendly yard
- How to create a nature AND neighbor friendly yard they’ll love, too
- How to attract birds, butterflies, and bees
- Native plants – what’s the buzz? “Essential” natives for your yard
- The joys of cottage gardens – with Xeric gardening discussion
4 Sessions | Tuesday | Jan 27, Feb 3, 10, 17 | 10:30-Noon | IN PERSON (no recording, at the Easton Family YMCA on Peachblossom) | $60