Beechwood Lecture: Residential Landscape Design Basics

Beechwood Center 44 Beach Street, North Kingstown, RI, United States

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 […]

Seeding the Future: A Panel Discussion

URI Pharmacy Building, Room 170 7 Greenhouse Road, Kingston, RI

photo (D.Vissoe) WHEN & WHERE: Saturday, November 12, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., at the University of Rhode Island Pharmacy building (Rm 170), Kingston, RI. WHY: RIWPS is 35 years […]

Beechwood Lecture: Modern Tree Care & Arboriculture Techniques

Beechwood Center 44 Beach Street, North Kingstown, RI, United States

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 […]

Botany Walk & Talk – Spruce Acres Farm

Spruce Acres Farm 1286 East Main Road, Middletown, RI

On June 22, 2023 from 5 to 6:30 pm join URI botanist Dr. Brian Maynard for some plant exploration along Gewirz Trail on Spruce Acres Farm in Middletown, RI. Dr. […]

Lisa Lofland Gould Lecture: Native Plant Supply Chain

URI Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences, Thomas Ryan Auditorium 120 Flagg Rd, Kingston, RI

NOTE.  Page updated on November 12 with NEW LOCATION OF THIS PROGRAM Thomas Ryan Auditorium, Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences (CBLS) Upstairs Lobby and Lecture Hall 120 Flagg Road on the URI Kingston Campus. What are the challenges, opportunities and issues related to sourcing and supplying native plants, especially as demand for these plants […]