photo credit: Bill Mauzy
Every February the Piedmont Landscape Association hosts an annual seminar. This event strives to bring gardening enthusiasts and landscape professionals together in an educational setting.
LocationThe Paramount Theater
215 East Main Street Charlottesville, Virginia RegistrationTickets will be sold exclusively through the Paramount Theater.
For more information, please visit The Paramount online at www.theparamount.net, in person at 215 East Main Street, or on the phone at 434-979-1333. Items to Note
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Lincoln Smith
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Lincoln Smith runs Forested, a 10-acre experimental food forest site in Bowie, Maryland established in 2012. He and his team test food forest methods, and design, install and maintain food forests for a variety of clients including DC Urban Forestry, the Cities of Hyattsville, College Park and Greenbelt Maryland, and many private clients. Their goal is to produce an abundance of food while restoring a healthy forest ecosystem. They hold forest-to-table events in the garden, featuring forest foods like acorn falafel.
https://www.forested.us/ |
Lecture:
Creating a Food Forest Food Forests produce an abundance of food and supplies while restoring a healthy forest ecosystem. Lincoln will discuss the principles of creating and maintaining a food forest with examples from Forested and other food forest projects. |
Heather Holm
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Heather Holm is a pollinator conservationist and award-winning author. She is the founder and chair of Minnesota Native Bees Her books Bees (2017) and Wasps (2021) won the American Horticultural Society Book Awards. Her focus is the interactions between native pollinators and native plants, and the natural history and biology of native bees and predatory wasps. She serves on the boards of many non-profits including The Prairie Enthusiasts and is active in ecological landscape restoration projects.
https://www.pollinatorsnativeplants.com/ |
Lecture:
Attracting Bees & Beneficial Insects to Your Fruit & Vegetable Gardens Learn about the importance of insect pollination and the bees responsible for pollinating the fruits and vegetables we grow in both home and commercial landscapes. Heather will discuss in detail the genera of bees responsible for the majority of the pollination and the additional forage (flowering plants) one needs to provide to ensure that the 'flower buffet' is always open, even when the fruit or vegetable plants are not in flower. Also discussed are the beneficial insects that the native flowering plants will attract and how these insects can help reduce insect pest populations in your fruit or vegetable garden. |
Rebecca McMackin
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Rebecca McMackin writes, lectures and teaches on ecological landscape management and pollination ecology. She is Lead Horticulturist for the American Horticultural Society, an Associate with the Harvard Divinity School's Thinking with Plants and Fungi Initiative, and Consulting Arboretum Curator for Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, NY. She spent a decade as Director of Horticulture of Brookllyn Bridge Park, where she organically managed 85 acres of diverse parkland.
https://www.rebeccamcmackin.com/ |
Lecture:
Adventures in Ecological Horticulture Gone are the days when a garden could be ornamental alone. We now recognize the impact that our land care practices have on the ecosystems around us, and can see the importance of encouraging biodiversity. Thankfully, we do not need to sacrifice beauty when we invite butterflies and songbirds into our gardens. Rebecca McMackin has cultivated gorgeous landscapes in the toughest environments possible: urban parks, school playgrounds, and the sidewalks of New York City. She will take lessons from her work at Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Brooklyn Museum, and decades of research to share how those of us who are fortunate enough to care for land, can do it beautifully and ecologically. |
Preston Montague
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Preston Montague is a landscape architect and artist working to strengthen relationships between people and the natural world. His environmental design studio deploys art, horticulture, and landscape architecture in the service of building places that have meaning and ecological depth. When not in studio, Preston enjoys teaching landscape architecture at North Carolina A&T State University and hiking the wilder places.
www.prestonmontague.com |
Lecture:
A Wildening: Bringing Landscape Ecology Home Inspired by the wilder places of the Piedmont, landscape architect Preston Montague has been on a journey to translate the structure, function, and beauty of resilient native plant communities into heavily disturbed environments of development projects and residential gardens. Preston's design process is rooted in the ancient and branches into the modern, deploying innovative planting strategies, multi-disciplinary collaborations, as well as the touch of an artist. Join him for a behind-the-scenes look at the triumphs, challenges, and lessons learned from building landscapes designed to reflect characteristics of place and encourage a sense of belonging. |