Practical Tree Care Amidst Today’s Challenges Ames Kaiser, career arborist, will discuss practical tree care in the context of extreme drought and rain, high winds, current invasive pests, existing monocultures, […]
We are canceling this program and hope to reschedule it when the conditions for gathering together make more sense. Organic Worm Composting Monique Bosch from Wiggle Room Organic Worm Composting […]
Journal Sketch, Frances Topping The Beechwood Lecture Series returns! The first speaker in this 2021 series, offered jointly by the Rhode Island Wild Plant Society and University of Rhode Island […]
Worm Composting Join Monique Bosch from Wiggle Room - Organic Worm Composting to learn how worm composing can help you grow the healthiest plants this season. We’ll explore ‘living soil’, […]
All Master Gardener indoor programs have been called through March 1. The program will be rescheduled. Community-Based Science and the Biodiversity in Our Backyards Even in Rhode Island, the plainest […]
Join Karen Asher to learn how to use native plants to create beautiful, well-balanced and thriving landscapes. Turn your backyard into a bio-diverse refuge for the plants, birds, pollinators and […]
Heather Faubert from the Plant Sciences and Entomology Department at the University of Rhode Island will talk about how to detect and treat some of the common - and not so common plant pathogens that we may find in our landscapes. She will also discuss additional measures we can take to help our plants. If […]
Join Kevin Alverson, owner and principal of Kevin M. Alverson Landscape Architecture, (Wickford, RI.) to learn the basics of residential landscape design -- from identifying your goals, to conceptualizing solutions and implementation. Kevin will focus on ways to integrate beneficial and attractive native plantings and how to use low impact techniques to create a beautiful […]
Rhode Islanders Helping to Restore the American Chestnut Our speaker Yvonne Federowicz is a Master Gardener and the former President of the RI/MA Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation as […]
Modern Tree Care and Arboriculture Techniques Nationally-known tree expert, Matthew "Twig" Largess, and "Voice of the Forest", is an International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) certified arborist with a qualification in Tree Risk Assessment and a license in Integrated Pest Management. He is the founder and president of Largess Forestry in North Kingstown, RI. Largess […]