Date: November 12, 2025

Time: 6:30pm

Location: 3 River Road, Orleans, MA

Native plants and pollinators are all the buzz these days. What are natives? Why should we plant natives? How can we work them into our landscape and gardens? All this and more will be covered in this brief class providing you with all you will need to know to go make informed decisions for your fall planting.

Trevor Smith is Design and Education Director at Weston Nurseries in Massachusetts as well as  the ReEarth Studio of Social Impact Collective in Boston. He holds several landscape certifications and is a past President and a current Board member of the Ecological Landscape Alliance. He is an award-winning regenerative landscape designer, specializing in green infrastructure, native plant design, habitat creation, and implementation of ecological design principles. As Host of the Peace Love and Pollinators podcast Trevor and his guests discuss the many principles of creating climate resilient landscapes. He is passionate about the natural world which inspires his commitment to sustainable landscaping practices in an era of climate change.

The lecture will take place at the CHO Meetinghouse, 3 River Road, Orleans.  Doors open at 6pm; lecture starts at 6:30.