trainings, Webinars, Classes, Volunteering, conferences, workshops

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Trainings

  • Winter Gardening Essentials- Sloat Garden Center

    2021.01.09 Suzanne Bontempo from Plant Harmony gave good advice about fertilizing, pruning, watering schedules, pests, and using dormant sprays.

  • CNPS Naturehood: Firescaping

    2022. 08.22 Greg Rubin of California’s Own Native Landscape Design gave a review of fire zones, mulch options, and how his own designs fared after fire events.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8xtngHPwtI

  • Vectorworks: Design Workflow

    2024.06.27

  • Vectorworks: Water Conservation with the Future in Mind

    2024.07.18

  • APLD: The Right to Practice

    2024.09.17 How our industry has come to its current regulations, how they differ in restrictions compared to other, similar, industries, and where we go from here.

  • Four part training: Defensible Space

    2024.10.01 - 2024.10.22

    Resilient Landscapes Coalition

    Sustainability in the Defensible Space Zone and Beyond

    https://resilientlandscapescoalition.org/about/

  • USGBC-CA Wildfire Defense Professional Certification

    2024.10.17 US Green Building Council online training covering the WUI, landscape design, plant selection, and home hardening

  • Fall Maintenance Workshop (hands-on)

    2024.10.17 at the Gardens at Heather Farm sponsored by EB MUD

    Covered non-functional turf rule changes, fall maintenance, pruning, and pest management

  • Winter Garden Maintenance

    2024.11.21 Resilent Palisades hosted Antonio Sanchez (Nursery Manager and Volunteer Outreach Coordinator for the Santa Monica Mountains Fund). He gave specific advice for when and how to prune in the winter. He was a good, engaging, informative speaker who was clearly presenting on a topic he has a lot of personal experience with.