Conversations for Conservation: Gardening as Climate Action with Lorraine Johnson

Learn about positive actions we can all take in our own gardens with author and cultivation activist Lorraine Johnson at rare's Conversations for Conservation!

How can we make our gardens more resilient in an era of climate change, more frequent drought, habitat loss and species decline? What are some of the connections between climate justice action and land-based practices such as gardening? 

In this hopeful and positive action-oriented conversation, Lorraine focuses on the many ways that our gardens can be places of ecological healing and climate action while focusing on the connections between biodiversity and the climate emergency. Bring home positive actions we can all take in the gardens we steward to enhance resiliency. Channel concern into action and plant for biodiversity!

About the Presenter

Lorraine Johnson is the author of 10-plus books on subjects including native plant gardening and urban agriculture. Her most recent book is A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee, co-authored with Sheila Colla, which profiles more than 300 native Ontario plants and explores the specialist relationships between native plants and pollinators. (The U.S. edition includes a Foreword by Douglas Tallamy.) Lorraine’s work focuses on habitat gardening in the context of climate change and biodiversity loss; on reforming grass and weeds bylaws so that they support healthy, biodiverse landscapes; and on land stewardship as relationship-building in the context of reconciliation. You can see more about Lorraine's work at her website, www.lorrainejohnson.ca

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