This calendar includes Heartwood’s scheduled chapter, volunteer, and training events.
For a list of unscheduled (work at your own pace) volunteer activities, check out the approved chapter activities: Heartwood Volunteer Projects
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Native Landscaping Certification Program Classes (Houston, Clear Lake, and Pines and Prairies NPSOT Chapters)
May 18 @ 9:00 am - 2:30 pm
The Houston Area NLCP Team is Offering Classes in Spring 2024 – Sign Up Now!
The Houston, Clear Lake, and Pines and Prairies Chapters of the Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT) offer Native Landscaping Certification Program (NLCP) classes. This volunteer-driven effort focuses on the benefits of native plants for bird- and wildlife-attracting gardens, and community, prairie, and park restoration. These classes are scheduled for Spring 2024:
*1* Native Landscapes for Birds is an NLCP companion class with no prerequisites. It includes live lectures, Q&A sessions and great narrated plant walk videos filmed locally in native bird-friendly areas. In this class you will learn the importance of birds and Texas’ role in bird migration, threats to birds, relationship between birds and native plants, how to create bird-friendly native plant landscapes, and 50 native Texas plants that benefit our local birds. This class will be held live via Zoom on March 18, 2023 from 8:45 am – 4:00 pm CT. Click here for more details and registration.
*2* NLCP Level 1 – Introduction to Native Landscapes is the NLCP introductory class that teaches the benefits of native plants, desirable plants for your area and design considerations. It features 45 native Texas plants recommended for your landscape and 5 invasive plants to avoid. This class will be given both online via Zoom and in-person at University of Houston – Clear Lake. Level 1 is a prerequisite for NLCP Levels 2 and 3. Both classes will be held simultaneously May 4, 2024 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm CT.
Click here for information and registration for the in-person class.
Click here for information and registration for the online Zoom class.
* 3* NLCP Level 1 – Introduction to Native Landscapes for those in Conroe – Montgomery Country – North Houston area (offered by Pines and Prairies Chapter, NPSOT). It will be held at the Mercer Botanic Garden in Humble on April 27 from 8:30 am – 4:00 pm. Click here for information and registration.
*4* New! NLCP Level 4 – Stewardship of Native Plant Communities New! The Houston area NLCP Team is presenting this very popular class for the first time in the Houston area this Spring. It teaches what land stewardship is and why it is so important in Texas urban and natural areas, how to identify threats to natural habitats and resulting impacts, and how to create an effective land stewardship plan to address these issues in your neighborhood and public spaces. There is no prerequisite for this class. Click here for more details and registration.
Level 4 class will be presented live via Zoom: Saturday, May 18 from 9 am to 2:40 pm and will include two field trip videos that day. There will be an OPTIONAL in-person field trip Sunday, May 19 from 9 to 11 am CT. The field trips and videos will take place at UH Coastal Center and Sylvan Rodriguez Park. Capacity for the in-person field trips will be limited to 20 students at each location. There will be an opportunity for those interested in signing up for the in-person field trips the week of the class.
Please Note: In 2022 and 2023 NLCP classes were all sellouts. Act quickly. As you know… the EARLY BIRD gets the WORM, and into the CLASS!
