Gardening for Nature:

Joanne Tunnicliffe, Master Garden. Joanne is doing a tour of the gardens at the church.

What a rewarding experience it is to see some many good people of Hamilton come out on a Saturday afternoon (Sept 8th), to learn about how to be better at gardening for nature and support local biodiversity and connect with others in the community involved in habitat restoration. .
We partnered with the In the Zone team at Carolinian Canada , World Wild Life to host Gardening for Nature! Birds, Bees, Butterflies. This afternoon-long event featured an afternoon of "garden chats" with experts on topics that ranged from designing your garden with easy to grow native plant choices that benefit pollinators and other creatures, tips to manage invasive species, to how to nurture healthy soil and stories from the garden. Our experts included Ecologist, Charlie Briggs with RBG, Master gardener, Claudette Sims and team with Halton Master Gardeners and Brenda Van Ryswyk, Natural Heritage Ecologist at Conservation Halton. A delightful addition to the team of experts was Calla Shea-Pelletier and her son Harry's virtual pollinator-themed gallery, art installation of Hamilton biodiversity.
Joanne Tunnicliffe, Master gardener at the First Unitarian Church lead two garden tours of the grounds. 

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Charlie

As well, we had a wonderful little plant sale. Refreshments were provided We enjoyed delicious treats from Cake and Loaf. The enthusiatic feedback we received is definitely something we plan to build on for next year's event. All in all, we had a wonderful day and we plan to do it again, next year!

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Calla and Harry

Jen and Michelle

Lots to learn with the Halton Master Gardeners