Community Education
Landscape Seminar Series: Imitating Nature's Design
Creating Healthy and Sustainable Landscapes Where You Live
Whether you design or build landscapes professionally or simply enjoy them, NHTI's new seminar series provides a holistic approach to creating healthy, sustainable landscapes. This series of three seminars helps professionals and enthusiasts alike develop the skills and confidence to create energy efficient, ecologically diverse, environmentally healthy and aesthetically pleasing landscapes in municipal, residential or commercial settings. Authors of Integrated Landscaping: Following Nature's Lead, the instructors focus on best practices of integrated landscaping, treating each site as a system of plant and animal communities, and taking you through the cycle of the year that unveils a holistic view. Each of these non-credit seminars complements the others and can be taken as a series or alone. Topics are:
- From the Ground Up: Laying the Foundation
This session will focus on the importance of assessing your site, taking stock of existing conditions, knowing your soil, attracting life to the soil and care of newly established plantings.
Date: February 21, 2009 - 9:00 am to noon
Price: $49
- Creating the Design: A Livable, Healthy and Ecologically Sound Approach
This session explains explores how to create an aesthetically pleasing and functional landscape that is also low maintenance and environmentally sound. This sustainable approach can be achieved by understanding and implementing concepts that work in nature.
Date: March 7, 2009 - 9:00 am to noon
Price: $49
- Making the Design a Reality: Putting your Ideas to Work
The design is only successful if well implemented and cared forcorrectly, the final step in creating a sustainable landscape. This session will explain the process of making the design a reality by covering topics such as: choosing plants to create plant systems, creating diverse habitats, working with natural succession, proper plant installation, and seasonal care and maintenance.
Date: March 21, 2009 - 9:00 am to noon
Price: $49
Sign up for all three for just $125.
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Growing Your Own Food
From seed to table, learn basic gardening techniques to turn your backyard into a sustainable vegetable garden. A NHTI/UNH Cooperative Extension cosponsored program.
- Site Selection
Where should you locate your garden? How large should the garden be? What type of soil do you have and need?
Date: March 28, 2009 - 9:00 am to noon
Price: $49
- Session Two: Choosing Varieties and Planting
What are you going to grow? How many plants do you really need? How do you start plants from seed?
Date: April 18, 2009 - 9:00 am to noon
Price: $49
- Session Three: Maintenance and Pest Management
What are your plant's nutritional needs? What is the safest way to control pests and weeds? What are the benefits of crop rotation?
Date: April 25, 2009 - 9:00 am to noon
Price: $49
- Farm Tour
Tour a local family farm to observe what they grow, how much they grow, and what cultural practices are involved
Date: May 2, 2009 - Time TBD
Price: $25
Sign up for all three and take the tour free.
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