Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center

11715 Cragwold Rd, Kirkwood, MO 63122

Free Registration opens in mid-March

Schedule:

8:00 am-8:30 Check-in, Plant Sale, & Networking

8:30-8:45 Opening Remarks

8:45-10:00 Keynote: Heather Holm "Predatory Wasps"

10:00-10:45 Break

10:45-11:15 Advocacy: How to Get Native Plants in Your Community

11:15-Noon Erin Goss "Harnessing the Wind: Using Native Plant Reproductive Strategies in Landscape Design"

Noon-1pm Plant Sale while supplies last

Featured Presentations

Keynote Speaker: Heather Holm

Predatory Wasps

Heather Holm is a pollinator conservationist and award-winning author of four books: Pollinators of Native Plants (2014), Bees (2017), Wasps (2021), and Common Native Bees of the Eastern United States (2022). Both Bees and Wasps have won multiple book awards including the American Horticultural Society Book Award (2018 and 2022 respectively). Heather’s expertise includes the interactions between native pollinators and native plants, and the natural history and biology of native bees and predatory wasps. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and many local publications. Heather is also an accomplished photographer and her pollinator photos are frequently featured in print and electronic publications.

Native Landscaping Advocacy Discussion

Panelists: TBA

Erin Goss - Shaw Nature Reserve

"Harnessing the Wind: Using Native Plant Reproductive Strategies in Landscape Design"

Plants distribute their seed in varying ways and this talk will focus on identifying techniques for using seed dispersal mechanisms to manage plant diversity and populations. We'll discuss how plants reproduce and how you can reproduce them, too - in situ!

Native Plants for Sale

A list of plants available for sale will be published here prior to the event.