IN-PERSON FALL MEETINGS
Meeting Schedule: 7:00 pm Welcome 7:15 pm Announcements 7:20 pm Program/Presentation |
New Meeting Location!
In-person meetings will be held at the Eden Prairie City Hall in the Heritage Room (on lower level) 8080 Mitchell Road Eden Prairie, MN 55344 All of our meetings and garden tours are free and open to the public. Please invite a friend! |
Wednesday, March 13th - 7 pm
A Tale of Two Cities
in person at Eden Prairie City Hall in the Heritage Room
(on lower level)
8080 Mitchell Road Eden Prairie, MN 55344
or zoom
Join Karli Wittner the Forestry and Natural Resources Supervisor from Eden Prairie and Matt Kumka the Park and Trail Project Manager from Minnetonka will discuss how volunteers can expand the restoration work being done in parks!
They will give a background of each City’s natural resources work followed by their perspective on Ecological Restoration including constraints, working with the public and maintenance. They will discuss volunteer groups-their structure and responsibilities- and how to talk to the public about ecology and native plants.
Zoom Link:
wildones-org.zoom.us/j/89661843665?pwd=V3FpRXR2Q3E0MWcwNVI4MDhuV0Rqdz09#success
A Tale of Two Cities
in person at Eden Prairie City Hall in the Heritage Room
(on lower level)
8080 Mitchell Road Eden Prairie, MN 55344
or zoom
Join Karli Wittner the Forestry and Natural Resources Supervisor from Eden Prairie and Matt Kumka the Park and Trail Project Manager from Minnetonka will discuss how volunteers can expand the restoration work being done in parks!
They will give a background of each City’s natural resources work followed by their perspective on Ecological Restoration including constraints, working with the public and maintenance. They will discuss volunteer groups-their structure and responsibilities- and how to talk to the public about ecology and native plants.
Zoom Link:
wildones-org.zoom.us/j/89661843665?pwd=V3FpRXR2Q3E0MWcwNVI4MDhuV0Rqdz09#success
Wednesday, April 10th - 7 pm
Stephen Thomforde
details of presentation forthcoming
in person at Eden Prairie City Hall in the Heritage Room
(on lower level)
8080 Mitchell Road Eden Prairie, MN 55344
or zoom
Stephen Thomforde has 28 years and 10,000 acres experience in design, implementation and maintenance of ecological restorations throughout the Midwest. This includes a decade of post graduate research at UW-Madison from which emerged a framework for ecological restoration in the 21st century and the first regional concepts based on State Transition Models, Working Lands, and Restoration of Ecosystem Services. For the past 15 years, his passion, work and research has focused on savanna ecosystems, from the scale of lawns to a model for future agricultural production. Stephen lives in Minneapolis, farms in Zumbrota, and plays outside throughout the Midwest.
Stephen Thomforde
details of presentation forthcoming
in person at Eden Prairie City Hall in the Heritage Room
(on lower level)
8080 Mitchell Road Eden Prairie, MN 55344
or zoom
Stephen Thomforde has 28 years and 10,000 acres experience in design, implementation and maintenance of ecological restorations throughout the Midwest. This includes a decade of post graduate research at UW-Madison from which emerged a framework for ecological restoration in the 21st century and the first regional concepts based on State Transition Models, Working Lands, and Restoration of Ecosystem Services. For the past 15 years, his passion, work and research has focused on savanna ecosystems, from the scale of lawns to a model for future agricultural production. Stephen lives in Minneapolis, farms in Zumbrota, and plays outside throughout the Midwest.
Homegrown National Park
Douglas Tallamy
May 15th 6pm Live Streamed and Viewing Party
co-sponsored by the City of Minnetonka
Homegrown National Park
Our parks, preserves, and remaining wildlands – no matter how grand in scale – are too small and separated from one another to sustain the native trees, plants, insects, and animals on which our ecosystems depend. We can fix this problem by practicing conservation outside of wildlands, where we live, work, shop, farm, and ranch. Thus, the concept for Homegrown National Park: a national challenge to create diverse ecosystems in our yards, communities, farms, and surrounding lands by reducing lawn, planting native, and removing invasives. The goal of HNP is to create a national movement to restore 20 million acres with natives, an area representing ½ of what is now in lawn, as well as millions more acres in agriculture and woodlots. We are at a critical point where we are losing so many native plant and animal species that our life support systems are in jeopardy. However, if many people make small changes, we can restore healthy ecological networks and weather the changes ahead.
Doug Tallamy is the T. A. Baker Professor of Agriculture in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored 112 research publications and has taught insect related courses for 43 years. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities. His books include Bringing Nature Home, The Living Landscape, co-authored with Rick Darke, Nature's Best Hope, a New York Times Best Seller, The Nature of Oaks, winner of the American Horticultural Society’s 2022 book award. In 2021 he cofounded Homegrown National Park with Michelle Alfandari (HomegrownNationalPark.org). His awards include recognition from The Garden Writer’s Association, Audubon, The National Wildlife Federation, Allegheny College, Ecoforesters, The Garden Club of America and The American Horticultural Association.
Douglas Tallamy
May 15th 6pm Live Streamed and Viewing Party
co-sponsored by the City of Minnetonka
Homegrown National Park
Our parks, preserves, and remaining wildlands – no matter how grand in scale – are too small and separated from one another to sustain the native trees, plants, insects, and animals on which our ecosystems depend. We can fix this problem by practicing conservation outside of wildlands, where we live, work, shop, farm, and ranch. Thus, the concept for Homegrown National Park: a national challenge to create diverse ecosystems in our yards, communities, farms, and surrounding lands by reducing lawn, planting native, and removing invasives. The goal of HNP is to create a national movement to restore 20 million acres with natives, an area representing ½ of what is now in lawn, as well as millions more acres in agriculture and woodlots. We are at a critical point where we are losing so many native plant and animal species that our life support systems are in jeopardy. However, if many people make small changes, we can restore healthy ecological networks and weather the changes ahead.
Doug Tallamy is the T. A. Baker Professor of Agriculture in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored 112 research publications and has taught insect related courses for 43 years. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities. His books include Bringing Nature Home, The Living Landscape, co-authored with Rick Darke, Nature's Best Hope, a New York Times Best Seller, The Nature of Oaks, winner of the American Horticultural Society’s 2022 book award. In 2021 he cofounded Homegrown National Park with Michelle Alfandari (HomegrownNationalPark.org). His awards include recognition from The Garden Writer’s Association, Audubon, The National Wildlife Federation, Allegheny College, Ecoforesters, The Garden Club of America and The American Horticultural Association.