Eco-Friendly Stewardship: Sustaining Beautiful, Thriving Landscapes Year-Round

What You Will Learn

Learn to think like a land steward, balancing beauty, function, and biodiversity for long-term landscape success. An ecological habitat evolves—discover the skills to tame seasonal maintenance, editing, and adaptive management to keep your garden thriving.

What you’ll learn:

• Seasonal Maintenance: Routines for pruning, mulching, and care through the seasons
• Plant Editing: Techniques to remove invasives, thin crowds, and enhance diversity
• Adaptive Management: Monitoring changes and adjusting for resilience and health
• Steward Mindset: Balancing aesthetics, ecology, and low-effort sustainability

Course outcomes:

• Sustain vibrant gardens that evolve naturally with minimal intervention
• Achieve year-round beauty while supporting pollinators and soil health
• Reduce long-term costs on weeding, watering, and replacements
• Gain confidence as a steward of thriving, biodiverse landscapes

Focus: Editing, maintaining, and evolving an ecological garden