Gardening with Native Plants

Date: October 12th

Time: 1 - 4 pm

Location: Burgoyne Valley Community Farm: 2232 Fulford Ganges Rd, Salt Spring Island

Cost: $50 | $100 | $150 Note : For Burgoyne Valley Community Gardeners Cost is Pay What you Can

Purchasing a higher value registration allows us to offer low cost access to others.

Course Overview

In this workshop, you will learn how gardening with our local native plants can give you a water-saving, low-maintenance garden that brings colour all season long, making them the ultimate ecological choice. Native plants are adapted to the area’s conditions making them ideal for organic gardening- no supplemental fertilisers or pesticides are needed. Whether your garden conditions are wet, salty or xeric (dry, dry, dry) there are native plants that will thrive and support great pollinators and our local ecology too!  With year-round interest in mind, we will explore how to keep the garden beautiful from spring to winter and tap into valuable local and online resources to help you along the way! There will be a hands-on component where participants will work along- side Emony to plant a native garden at the Burgoyne Valley Community Farm.

Meet the Facilitator

Emony Nicholls has worked as an environmental consultant, entrepreneur and biologist for the last 25 years. She owned and operated a native plant nursery in Ontario supplying plants for ecological restoration projects. She fell in love with native pollinators through her graduate research on the relationship between pollinators and plants drives the evolution of plants. She is now on a mission to empower homeowners on how to support our ecosystems by easily providing habitat in their own back yards. She recently left work with the provincial government as a biologist and now lives and works on Salt Spring Island.

Facilitator website: http://ecologicalgardening.ca/

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