Keweenaw Native Plant Symposium: On Bugs and Parking Lots
7:0o p.m.—Native Plants and Storm Water Management at the Marquette Food Co-op
Bill Sanders, landscape architect , Sanders-Czapski Associates, Marquette, Mich.
In 2013 the Marquette Food Co-op redeveloped a former grocery store and restaurant to provide a new location for their Co-op Grocery enterprise. Their interest in sustainable development provided an opportunity to implement landscape features based on native plants and alternative storm water management. Landscape architect Bill Sanders will discuss how he used of native plants and landscaping techniques to reduce site run-off, enhance pollinator habitat, and improve site aesthetics.
7:30 p.m.—Native Plants and Native Insects
Dr. Tara Bal, assistant professor of forest health, Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Dr. Tara Ball of Michigan Tech will discuss how native insect biodiversity benefits our gardens and the larger ecosystems in numerous ways. Tara will share how non-native plants can make life harder for insects and wildlife and discuss how adding native plants can make your garden a haven for insect biodiversity. She will also talk about different types of beneficial native insects—there can be a lot more to diversity than bees and butterflies!
Learn more and register here: https://keweenaw.wildones.org/2021-keweenaw-native-plant-symposium/