"How Can I Help? Saving Nature With Your Yard" with Dr. Doug Tallamy | At ChappPAC

Program Type:

Lectures & Talks, Science & Nature

Age Group:

Adults, Everyone
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Event Details

Offsite Location

Chappaqua Performing Arts Center

480 N Bedford Road, Chappaqua NY, 10514

We are thrilled to welcome entomologist, ecologist, author and conservationist Dr. Douglas Tallamy for this special community event. His talk will focus on his new book “How Can I Help? Saving Nature with Your Yard” providing practical guidance about steps we can take in our yards to help solve the biodiversity crisis.

Dr. Tallamy is a dynamic and inspiring speaker – renowned for his groundbreaking research on the vital connections between native plants, beneficial insects, and birds, and how our own yards can play a crucial role in sustaining biodiversity.

Dr. Tallamy will show us how reducing lawn space and eliminating pesticides can support the "little things that run the world" - the insects that pollinate our food, feed our birds, and keep our ecosystems functioning.

About

  • Professor of Entomology & Wildlife Ecology at University of Delaware where he has authored 116 research publications and taught insect-related courses for 45 years. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities.
  • Author of highly acclaimed books including, Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife With Native Plants, The Living Landscape, Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard, The Nature of Oaks, and his latest release, How Can I Help? Saving Nature with Your Yard.
  • Founder of Homegrown National Park - an organization that raises awareness and urgently inspires everyone to address the biodiversity crisis by adding native plants and removing invasive ones where we live, work, learn, pray, and play. The goal is to make a significant impact by transforming personal spaces into productive ecosystems, thereby contributing to the preservation of healthy, productive ecosystems essential for human survival.
  • Recipient of Numerous Awards and Recognition from The Garden Writers Association, Audubon, The National Wildlife Federation, Allegheny College, Ecoforesters, The Garden Club of America, The Herb Society, and The American Horticultural Association.

Sponsored by the Town of New Castle, New Castle Conservation Board and Chappaqua Library. Cosponsored by more than 25 environmental organizations, committees and community groups.

Free and open to the public

Victoria Alzapiedi: valzapiedi@mynewcastleny.gov

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