AT24-249 WEBINAR: Rainscaping: The Next Generation of Water-Wise Landscaping – Austin NPSOT Chapter Meeting,

Webinar Title: WEBINAR: Rainscaping: The Next Generation of Water-Wise Landscaping – Austin NPSOT Chapter Meeting

AT-VMS: AT: Native Plant Society of Texas (Enter AT#, Class Title as posted, Name of NPSOT Chapter, and Presenter)

Comments: AT24-249 WEBINAR: Rainscaping: The Next Generation of Water-Wise Landscaping – Austin NPSOT Chapter Meeting, Presenter:
Shannon Brown (AT=1.0h)

Webinar Date: 06/18/2029
Webinar Time: 7:00p-8:00p

Event Summary: Create your own backyard oasis by learning how to harvest the rain in this presentation

Event Description: With droughts and floods, our water challenges need an innovative solution. Rain gardens help solve both problems by maximizing the amount of water that stays on and in your landscape. Rain gardens support lush vegetation to provide habitat for butterflies and birds. Create your own backyard oasis by learning how to harvest the rain in this presentation

Shannon founded Ecosystem Regeneration Artisans (ERA) Landscaping in 2017 to unite talented land stewards on projects that realize the vision of creating healthy ecological communities. From residential Rainscapes to wildlife management on large-acreage ranches, Shannon and her team create projects focused on earth care and people care. Their gardens use native plants to provide wildlife habitat for pollinators and birds, incorporate perennial food crops for human consumption, and involve mechanisms to harvest rainwater to capture it into the soil before it runs off, and contributes to flooding.

At age 8, after her local wetland and forest playground was destroyed for a suburban housing development, Shannon Brown realized that the wildlife she loved all required native plants for food, shelter, and places to raise their young. She began working with local landscapers, teachers, Master Naturalists, Master Gardeners and volunteers to create a “Schoolyard Habitat for Wildlife” behind her elementary school. She hasn’t stopped since and has deepened her understanding with a degree in ecology and over 15 years of observation, maintenance, installation, and enjoyment of habitat gardens.

This is a virtual meeting using Zoom. Please click here to register and get the Zoom for this meeting.

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Cost: Free

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Presenter: Shannon Brown

Contact Information: https://www.npsot.org/chapters/austin/contact/

Organization Website: https://www.npsot.org/chapters/austin/

Sponsoring Organization: NPSOT, Austin Chapter