Join award-winning author, landscape designer, photographer, and educator Rick Darkea free national webinar on native plant gardening, ecological landscape design, and biodiversity.

This virtual event explores how welcoming authentic wildness into your home landscape can create resilient, beautiful spaces that support pollinators, wildlife, and local ecosystems. Can’t make it? Registrants will receive a recording. Consider a donation for this Homegrown National Park and Wild Ones fundraiser. Register here: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/homegrownnationalpark/event/whatiswildandwhyitmatters/

A well-made home landscape should be full of life, human and otherwise, providing infinite daily opportunities to experience that glorious multiplicity of things and living processes.

Wildness is a renewable resource. Inviting a bit of authentic wildness into your garden is the most rewarding way to create a truly vibrant landscape that will sustain both the gardeners and a stunning array of local and regional biodiversity. 

Rather than maintaining plants in fixed patterns, gardens that welcome wildness embrace the resiliency of managed, self-perpetuating plant communities.

In this Earth Day webinar, Rick Darke will discuss in detail the dynamic nature of wild gardening. Using examples of landscapes he's designed or co-designed, he'll demonstrate how this approach is sensibly ecological and eminently practical for homeowners who wish to adopt a meaningful stewardship model for their home habitat.

Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of wildness as a continuum, a renewed awareness of its presence in everyday life, and a framework for creating landscapes that are both functional and rooted in place.