Home Earth Alliance again presented “Ecological Landscapes” at the Capital Region Flower and Garden Expo, with eight interactive educational stations, a kids activity station, and volunteers from over one dozen local environmental organizations on hand. Topics include Planting Natives, Why Pollinators Are Important, The Soil Food Web, Environmental Justice, Home Composting, Raised Bed Vegetable Gardens, Sustainable Yards and Gardens, and more. Subject matter experts and enthusiasts were on hand to answer questions and engage with visitors. We will be back next year!

March 2025

Hudson Valley Community College

Check out a video of our exhibit here!

Coming spring 2024, join native landscape design and plant experts for a series of on-site guided tours of native gardens across the Capital Region. Learn what to expect from your garden in all phases of development and across three seasons. Tours will include light refreshments and pop up native plant sales. Tours will be conducted the second Sunday of each month from 12:00 - 1:00 PM.

More information coming soon!

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Building on the community traditions of barn raisers and quilting bees, “Garden Raising Bees” are designed to remove barriers to motivated homeowners reducing their lawns and installing native gardens. Those can include, among other things, a lack of knowledge, a lack of time, and a lack of finances. Applicants accepted into this program will become part of a learning community committed as much to helping others design and install gardens as they are to their own. And while raising gardens, we hope to be raising experts and enthusiasts to lead the next rounds of native gardens raisers. Raising eco leaders who are raising native gardens means raising more bees!

More information coming soon!