It Starts in Your Yard Presentation
Joliet Library, Downtown Ottawa Street Branch, Burnham Room 201 (2nd Level), 150 N Ottawa St, Joliet, IL, 60432 Map
Public Welcome Registration Required Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation Wheelchair Accessible Public Restroom Free Public Parking
"It Starts in Your Yard". Rewilding Your Neighborhood and Rebuilding Community, One Garden at a Time. Sponsored by the Will County Wild Ones & the Will County Audubon Society.
Join us to hear Brian “Fox” Ellis, from the Illinois Audubon Society, discuss rewilding our neighborhoods and rebuilding community, one garden at a time.
Bio: Brian “Fox” Ellis, has transformed three communities, planted 12,000 trees, landscaped several schools, businesses, and a hospital grounds, creating wildlife corridors and an eBird Hotspot from scratch. Fox is currently managing Illinois Audubon Society’s Bird and Butterfly Sanctuary Certification program with the goal of restoring communities across the state.
This participatory presentation explores ways to restore your yard, focusing on the relationships between native plants, birds, bees and butterflies, going beyond the typical pollinator garden to first research and then replant the larger native ecosystem. Then using your yard as a beacon for broader change. We will map successful strategies for restoring your neighborhood, and the broader community, working with partners who share your passion, Wild Ones, the Native Plant Society, Master Gardeners, and Bird City advocates. This program is sure to be hands-on and minds-on, and not a lecture.
Parking: Free street parking on the weekend; parking deck/garage very close (110 N Ottawa St) - $1/hr for 2 hrs (2 hrs free if you validate your ticket at the library).
Registration required by each attendee - Link below.