Training 1

Native Plants, Soils & Habitat Features

April 25, 2024

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

(with optional garden tour from 4 pm - 5 pm)

Moore Farms Botanical Garden

Lake City, SC

5 hours of continuing education credits will be available for planners (AICP), floodplain managers (CFM), engineers (PE), and landscape architects (ASLA), provided by ACE Basin NERR Coastal Training Program / SCDNR and the SC Chapter of the ASLA.

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The Nature-Based Exchange is holding a one-day training on native plants, soils, and habitat features. Aimed at practitioners and professionals who design, install, and plan for nature-based projects (including, but not limited to, designers, landscape architects, engineers, and planners), this training seeks to enhance participants’ base knowledge of the living components of nature-based design. Using a whole-systems approach, lessons will explore best practices for plant, soil, and habitat feature selection, design, construction, management, and maintenance. Taught by South Carolina experts Keith Bowers (Biohabitats), Erin Stevens (Surculus), and Joshua Robinson (Robinson Design Engineers), case studies will supplement ecological theory, preparing participants with the tools needed to execute their own nature-based projects.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Participants will gain a greater understanding of a planting community approach to design.

  • Participants will be able to characterize and evaluate soils to support native plant communities.

  • Participants will learn how to create habitat enhancement features to support focal species.

  • Participants will understand the importance of conserving existing soils and plant communities and will know how they contribute to habitat.

 

Held at the beautiful Moore Farms Botanical Garden in Lake City, SC, participants will experience classroom learning followed by an optional tour of the gardens, led by a horticulturist.

 

Registration fee:

  • $125 (does not include a printed copy of the Nature-Based Exchange Compendium)

  • $150 (includes a printed copy of the Nature-Based Exchange Compendium)

Breakfast, lunch, a workbook, and tour of the garden are included in the training.

Space is limited. Registration will close on April 18 or when max capacity is reached.

Hotels in the area: https://www.visitlakecitysc.com/dine-shop-stay

Questions? Contact Nicole Pehl (nicole.pehl@tnc.org)

Registration for this event has now closed.