Conferences, Workshops, Keynotes
Carole Sevilla Brown has traveled around the country to speak to groups, organizations, and conferences about protecting wildlife, creating habitat, and how to make the world a better place, one garden at a time. Carole will teach you to garden sustainably, conserve natural resources, and create welcoming habitat for wildlife in your gardens so that you will attract more birds, butterflies, pollinators, frogs, toads, bats, bees, and other wildlife.
Use the contact form to give the details of your event. That is the most efficient way to establish contact, get scheduled, and discuss terms.
Ecosystem Gardening topics can include:
The 5 Pillars of Ecosystem Gardening:
- Sustainable Landscaping
- Water-Wise Gardening
- Soil Health
- Remove Invasive Plants
- Plant more native plants
Learn how to use the 5 Pillars of Ecosystem Gardening to create a sustainable, water-wise garden that is full of birds, butterflies, native pollinators, and other wildlife.
Why Your Garden Matters to Wildlife
Learn how habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation have caused many wildlife species to decline, and what can be done to help reverse this by creating welcoming habitat for wildlife in your garden
Using the Essential Elements in Ecosystem Gardening to Plan and Design Your Wildlife Garden
Discussion of the four elements that all wildlife species must have in order to survive and thrive and how they can incorporated into your garden plan.
By the end of this workshop students will have a plan to landscape their gardens to attract more wildlife, after drawing a map of their own garden to help them design the best wildlife habitat garden for the specific conditions in each area of this garden. After making this design plan, students will know how to choose the best plants for each area of their wildlife garden.
Beyond Bird Feeders: Birdscaping Your Garden
Learn to move beyond bird feeders: how to plant a garden full of bird food, nesting birds, and a welcome haven for migratory birds. Students will learn how to attract more birds to their wildlife gardens by choosing native plants that will best attract the birds of their region, and adding landscape elements that will provide for all their needs.
Creating a Butterfly Garden
Butterflies need much more than nectar plants. Learn how to design a garden that provides what butterflies need during each of the stages of a butterfly’s life. You will be able to provide for all phases of a butterfly’s life cycle and identify the host plants required by the species you’d like to attract.
Attracting Native Pollinators
It’s been much in the news lately that Honeybees are declining and the Monarch Butterfly is in deep trouble. These 2 “Poster Pollinators” are just the tip of the iceberg of the many different kinds of pollinators you can give a helping hand to when you design your wildlife garden to attract more native pollinators.
Using Native Plants to Attract More Wildlife to Your Garden
Students will learn how to identify the most appropriate native plants of their region to attract the widest variety of wildlife to their wildlife gardens. Discover how to use a landscaping map to locate the best place in this garden for each of these plants.
The Water Wise Garden
Students will learn to put the right plant in the right place so that their wildlife garden does not require supplemental watering. Learn how to manage rainwater in your garden in a way that protects local waterways and avoids excessive runoff. Use a landscaping map to locate the ideal spot to add wildlife attracting water features to a wildlife garden.
Frogs, Toads & Dragonflies: Creating a Wildlife Pond
How to provide the best habitat for amphibians and dragonflies/damselflies in your wildlife garden by creating a wildlife pond. Learn how to install a pond, what you need, what you don’t need, and how to invite a wide variety of birds and other wildlife.
The Wildflower Meadow
Learn how to transform your lawn into a wildflower meadow with out breaking your back or the bank. Discover the multitude of birds, butterflies, and other wildlife who will benefit from this addition to your wildlife garden. And easy steps to maintain your meadow through the years.
Use the contact form to give me the details of your event. That is the most efficient way to establish contact, get scheduled, and discuss terms.
Here’s some examples of speaking that I’ve done:
Coastal Maine Botanical Garden
The Certificate in Native Plants and Ecological Gardening program –2 Day Intensive
Why Your Garden Matters to Wildlife
The 5 Pillars of Ecosystem Gardening:
- Sustainable Landscaping
- Water-Wise Gardening
- Soil Health
- Remove Invasive Plants
- Plant more native plants
- Birdscaping Your Garden
- Creating a Butterfly Garden
- Planning and Designing Your Ecosystem Garden
- Using the Native Plants of Maine to Attract Wildlife
- The Wildlife Pond
- The Wildflower Meadow
See: Ecosystem Gardening at Coastal Maine Botanical Garden
Keynote Address, CT Master Gardener Symposium
More Information: Keynote Address CT Master Gardener Symposium
Today’s Horticulture Symposium at Longwood Gardens
See: Speaking at Today’s Horticulture Symposium at Longwood Gardens
Keynote Address, The SALT Conference
Connecticut College Arboretum, Gardening in a Changing Environment, The 10th Annual SALT Conference (Smaller American Lawns Today)
See: Speaking at the SALT Conference
Keynote Address, Natural Landscaping Conference
The Wildflower Propagation and Preservation Society of McHenry County, IL
Using the 5 Pillars of Ecosystem Gardening to garden sustainable, conserve natural resources and create welcoming habitats for wildlife so that you will attract more birds, butterflies, pollinators, and other wildlife.
See: Ecosystem Gardening Goes to Chicago
Keynote Address, Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society
How to create more biodiversity in your wildlife garden with native plants
See Conserving Biodiversity with Native Plants
BeesWeek Scientific Panel at Albuquerque Film and Media Experience
2-day Panel Discussion: awareness of the plight of bees and that connection to pollination of our food supply
See: BeesWeek at Albuquerque Film and Media Experience
Pinelands Short Course
New Jersey Pinelands Commission
Ecosystem Gardening For Wildlife
Designing Your Wildlife Garden
See: Ecosystem Gardening at Pinelands Short Course
Chester County, PA Master Gardeners
How to create a wildlife garden using the 5 pillars of Ecosystem Gardening
2011 Pinelands Short Course
NJ Pinelands Commission
Two sessions, Ecosystem Gardening for Wildlife
Pinelands-Friendly Yard & Garden Fair
Presentation about Ecosystem Gardening and creating more biodiversity in your wildlife habitat garden.