Join us to learn more about the value of planting native plants and options for your yards. Take home a native plant (while supplies last) and watch the documentary, Hometown Habitat, Stories of Bringing Nature Home, featuring Doug Tallamy. Sponsored by Fairfax Villa Neighborhood Association thanks to a grant from Fairfax Water. Location:Trailhead of Fairfax Villa Park (Belden St). Rain date: May 18th, 6-8pm.
The evening starts off with a tour of Mills Community House Gardens by Benzie Master Gardeners. Afterwards we will head inside to the auditorium for the 7 pm viewing of Hometown Habitat: Stories of Bringing Nature Home, a 90 minute documentary by Catherine Zimmerman featuring Doug Tallamy’s work and includes Sacred Grounds.. A discussion led by Sue Hudnut (MGANM) and Cheryl Gross (PIW) will follow the video. This is a joint program with PIW and MGANM
Join Rural Woodlands for a free movie night! Learn why native plants are critical to our local ecosystem. Get inspired to grow native plants in your garden!Win great door prizes including free native seeds, plants, a bird house and more! The event is supported by South Nation Conservation. Email for more info ruralwoodlandsottawa@gmail.com
Join us for a screening of “Hometown Habitat: Stories of Bringing Nature Home”, a 90-minute environmental documentary showing how and why native plants are critical to the survival and vitality of natural ecosystems. Did you know that native plants do not require the use of chemicals such as herbicides and pesticides to maintain their beauty? Or that they don’t require extra watering from our precious supply of water? Did you know that our native pollinators and birds generally prefer native plants for nectaring and seed? Register with Kent Memorial Library.
Natural Vineland is hosting a free screening of four segments of Hometown Habitat as part of their work to encourage homeowners, businesses, and institutions in creating sustainable gardens/habitat to help pollinators/wildlife and decrease fragmentation. As a NWF Garden for Wildlife Group, Natural Vineland is promoting individual NWF certifications which entails providing food, water, cover, and places to raise young. In addition to getting gardens/habitat certified Natural Vineland is working to get the City of Vineland certified as a community. Join us for this screening and get inspired to create habitat!
In celebration of our 30 years serving the Northern Shenandoah Valley region, we invite you to join us for a special viewing of Hometown Habitat, Stories of Bringing Nature Home. Film director Catherine Zimmerman will join the panel of like-minded local community partners to explore how we can join forces to impact our Northern Shenandoah Valley community in an environmentally positive way. Learn how you can make a difference in your own backyard! Free but with limited seating, registration required. Book signing with Catherine of her book, Urban & Suburban Meadows, to follow.
Free Community Movie Night – a Collaboration of Conserving Carolina, Gardening For Life Project and the Congregational Church (UCC) of Tryon. The film, in collaboration with Doug Tallamy, highlights communities who are putting best ecological practices into place and making meaningful and measurable differences. We hope you will join us for this inspiring film and help us to spread the word. Admission is free but you must reserve your seat. Click on link below.
Costal Wildscapes and the St. Simons Land Trust presents a free screening of Urban & Suburban Meadows, Bringing Meadowscaping to Big and Small Spaces. Author and film director Catherine Zimmerman will attend to introduce the film and for a discussion and book signing after the film. Light hors d’oeuvres. Registration required. Please join us!
Watershed Forestry Program | Bureau of Forestry PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources hosts the Watershed Forestry Summit from June 13-15. with a screening of Hometown Habitat, Stories of Bring Nature Home the evening of June 13th. Non-conference goers are welcome to attend the screening at no cost and there will be popcorn!
Hometown Habitat, Stories of Bringing Nature Home, featuring renowned entomologist Dr Douglas Tallamy, will be the closing night movie for the 2023 Pollinator Summit. Come learn about pollinators on the big screen! The event is free but please register. Sponsored by the University of Idaho Extension, Moscow, Idaho.
STOP MOWING, START GROWING! A Native Plant Symposium for Beginners & Beyond. Create a Beautiful Yard, Save Time & Money, Improve Water Quality, Build Habitat for Pollinators & Birds. Included in the program a film clip, “The Basics” with Doug Tallamy from the documentary, Hometown Habitat, Stories of Bringing Nature Home. Keynote speaker: Nancy Lawson, The Humane Gardener. A registration link will be open in early January Hybrid event: In Person or Online. Snow date Feb 18th.
Hometown Habitat kicks off the 2023 season of Michigan Technological University’s Sustainability Film Series, sponsored by the Center for Science and Environmental Outreach. This showing is made possible by a grant from the Wild Ones Keweenaw Chapter.
For the last several decades, global bird and insect populations have been plummeting. Unlike many looming environmental catastrophes, however, these can be addressed in part by individuals willing to make a difference in their yards and communities. The solution: change the way we approach landscaping. In Hometown Habitat, renowned entomologist and best-selling author Douglas Tallamy invites us to incorporate native plants into our yards and cityscapes, where they provide life-saving “hometown habitat” for pollinators, birds and other wildlife. Filmmaker Catherine Zimmerman traveled around the U.S. to visit hometown habitat heroes and film their stories of community commitment to conservation landscaping. Zimmerman shares these stories to re-awaken and re-define our relationship with nature—and perhaps inspire us to create our own hometown habitats.
The showing is free. A donation of $5 is requested to help defray costs of the Sustainability Film Series.
Co-Hosted With Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve the historic Newtown Theatre will screen “Hometown Habitat – Stories of Bringing Nature Home”. The documentary was filmed over a two-year period by producer/director Catherine Zimmerman, who traveled around the country with a film crew to find hometown habitat heroes and capture their inspiring stories of community commitment to conservation landscaping. The message is inspirational and simple – all of us have the power to support habitat for wildlife and bring natural beauty to our patch of the Earth.
Following the documentary, Laurie Cleveland, Executive Director of the Sourland Conservancy, will be available to discuss the film and answer questions. As Executive Director of the Sourland Conservancy, Cleveland works to protect the unique history and ecology of the Sourland Mountain Region of central New Jersey. She is a Pennsylvania Master Naturalist and leads the Conservancy’s “Sourland Stewards” program to educate and encourage private residents to use native plants to enhance the beauty of their property and the health of their ecosystem.
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Hometown Habitat features renowned entomologist Dr. Douglas Tallamy, who inspires community commitment to conservation landscaping. There will be two screenings of this important documentary with discussion following each screening. (12:30-2:30 and 3-5) In between the two screenings, at 2:30, there will be a 20 minute garden tour of Broad Meadow Brook’s native plantings. Reserve a ticket on Eventbrite. See link below.Seats are limited so please sign up for only one showing.
Watch, discuss, act! All of us have the power to support habitat for wildlife and bring natural beauty to our patch of the earth. Be radical and plant native. The Earth and all of its smallest inhabitants will thank you!
We tend to think of nature as something separate from our daily routines, however it is time to challenge this notion. Our cities are also home to a wide variety of birds, bees, insects and all manner of wildlife when we foster their natural habitat. Get inspired on native plant choices and learn how to enhance habitat for pollinators and wildlife in the city. Join us for this 90 minute documentary which emphasizes the critical importance of planting natives for the survival and vitality of local ecosystems. This documentary is on a mission to make natural landscaping the new norm. It shares the inspiring stories of communities coming together to naturalize landscapes, support habitat for wildlife, and foster natural beauty. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Reep Green Solutions and Waterloo’s Pollinator Working Group. We hope to leave you inspired and equipped to take action and bring nature home in our community.
We’re excited to open our historic Echo Hill Farm to the public for the very first time to host “The Making of a Meadow for Pollinators”. This Pollinator Month Awareness event, coordinated with the help of Hendersonville Bee City USA, will focus on our efforts to transition our farm to a more ecologically friendly, sustainable, and ultimately more beautiful model. Catherine Zimmerman’s documentary Hometown Habitat, Stories of Bringing Nature Home will be shown several times throughout the day.
University of Vermont Master Gardeners will host a screening of Hometown Habitat, Stories of Bringing Nature Home.Farmers & homeowners can make a huge difference in water management, wildlife habitat, soil building and biodiversity using these land care practices! Catherine Zimmerman joins the zoom meeting for Q & A.
