CNPS Garden Ambassador Linda Richards and Outreach Education Coordinator with Redlands Conservancy, Kathy Havert, will be giving a presentation, "Why Native Landscaping."  This is day one of a two day event.

Presentation and talk by Greg Rubin, President, California’s Own Native Landscape Design, Inc. Far from being "fire bombs," a landscape of California native plants may actually contribute to fire safety around your home—it's all in the approach. Greg will explore the factors that encourage fire resistance in native landscapes, including design, irrigation, and maintenance, and will share actual case histories from a number of major fire events. Although there is no guarantee that a native landscape will save a home…

Presentation and talk by Judith Schwartz, Environmental Journalist. Discussions of climate have largely been driven by physics and a focus on fossil fuels. But the constellation of phenomena that we call climate also reflects biology. The problem isn’t carbon per se, but that there’s too much carbon in the air rather than in the ground. Due to erosion and tillage, our soil has lost much of its carbon: 50–80% of the world’s cultivated soil has lofted its carbon into the…