Planting for the Planet 101

10:00 AM 12:00 PM
Planting for the Planet 101 presented by John Barber

Cleveland Heights Community Center, 1 Monticello Blvd, Room A/B

BRINGING NATURE HOME is a series of programs presented by Friends of Heights Parks, The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, and the Cleveland Heights Parks & Recreation Department.

The free talks, by local experts, intend to educate and inspire residents to act on creating biodiverse native habitat in our public and private green spaces.

As the climate emergency brings awareness that nature exists in our own yards, not only in parks, people are looking for a new way to garden. John Barber will present practical ideas about how to begin, or continue, to reduce lawn and increase habitat in your own green space.

John Barber has expanded his experience of his first love, birds, to the importance of bird habitat to all of nature. A licensed bird bander, he has had the excitement of banding 60 bird species in his own biodiverse urban back yard.

John has been a citizen scientist for over fifty years, active in the recovery of Peregrine Falcon populations; the continuing recovery of Eastern Bluebirds; and monitoring wildlife populations in suburban parklands. Now retired after 35 years in the business world, he is passionately engaged in restoring and maintaining biodiversity in his community. As co-chair of Friends of Lower Lake park he has worked with volunteers weekly on Sunday mornings since 2018 to remove invasive species and replace them with native ones.

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