Restoring Nature's Relationships at Home with Grow Native Massachusetts
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Location:
Main Library
449 Broadway
Cambridge
Contact:
Grow Native Massachusetts
Grow Native Massachusetts FREE lecture @ the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway
Restoring Nature's Relationships at Home
Douglas Tallamy, Author of Bringing Nature Home; Co-author of The Living Landscape
If we are to make our residential landscapes truly living ecosystems once again, we need to understand the specialized relationships that make plants and animals interdependent. Who better to take us on an in-depth journey into this fascinating and complex world than Doug Tallamy? He will give us detailed examples of these co-evolutionary relationships, showing us how they determine the stability and complexity of local food webs— providing birds with insects and berries, dispersing bloodroot seeds, pollinating goldenrod, and much more. This knowledge equips us to knowingly select plants and to construct landscapes that restore nature’s relationships at home.
Doug Tallamy is a Professor of Entomology and Wildlife Biology at the University of Delaware. His groundbreaking book,Bringing Nature Home, was published in 2007 and continues to have national impact; it was awarded the 2008 Silver Medal by the Garden Writers' Association. In 2014, he co-authored The Living Landscape with Rick Darke. Doug’s conservation work and science-based advocacy for native plants has earned him much recognition and numerous awards.
Each talk will last about an hour with time for Q&A afterward.
Doors open at 6:30 pm for general seating. Seating is unassigned and will be available on a first-come basis.
Events are free and open to all.
For more information and to see the flyer listing the other public lectures, visit http://www.grownativemass.org/programs/eveningswithexperts!