A Virtual and In-Person Climate Conference
Practical Approaches to Adapting Yards and Landscapes to a Changing Climate
There’ still time to register and view these eight powerful presentations packed with inspiration, education, and hands-on action.
March 1 - April 7, 2023
We have extended access to our Online presentations until April 7. View at your own pace, convenience, and schedule.
This in-person event featured a keynote presentation by Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Horticulturist and Director of Outreach at the Denver Botanic Gardens. While this event has taken place, registrants can still view a recording of his inspiring presentation.
March 16, 2023
Adapting is one of the best things you can do.
During the pandemic in 2020 the Durango Botanic Gardens produced an online conference on how we in the Four Corners could begin adapting our local landscaping practices to changing climate conditions. We will build upon that online conference beginning in March 2023 but this time with the addition of an in-person event. Please consider registering for this local effort to reconsider our landscape, both residential and municipal, in view of a changing climate — all without sacrificing a beautiful yard, garden and park system.
Adapting and mitigating a changing climate begins in our own yards, gardens, city parks, and urban forest. Thinking anew about how we garden, landscape, and use water will change our DurangoScape in ways that will become more viable and beautiful! This online and in-person event envisions what that landscape will (or could) eventually look like.
“Understanding the effects of a changing climate on our landscapes, regardless of how one goes about gardening, is a no-brainer. But it is conferences like these that make that process less daunting, and allow us to look at not just the yard in front of us, but how it will look for generations to come.”
Darrin Parmenter, Extension Director, Horticulture Agent, CSU Extension, La Plata County
Speakers & topics not to miss
We gathered speakers from around the Four Corners region to share expertise and hands-on action we can all take as we turn the corner into Spring and consider our garden landscapes.
"Many conferences experienced unexpected audience outreach this year (2020) due to the fact that all programs went virtual at the same time and many smaller organizations missed out on that opportunity because the technological challenges were too great. The Durango Botanic Gardens deserves a Program Excellence Award for the program they offered and the technological challenges they had to overcome to keep in step with the larger, more prominent botanic gardens around the country."
- Ross Shrigley, executive director, Plant Select®️ and past presenter for our 2020 climate conference, Adapting Landscape in the Four Corners to a Changing Climate
Conference Fees & Registration Information
Includes viewing online presentations plus attendance at the reception on March 16.
Members:
Durango Botanic Gardens, Mountain Studies Institute, Colorado Native Plant Society, and Colorado Master Gardeners
