PRFCT EVENTS
Talk Dirt to Me:
Sustainable Land Care Symposium and Info Fair
Saturday, April 20, 2024
1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Springs Community Presbyterian Church
East Hampton, NY
This Earth Day, learn how to cultivate beauty and nature in your own backyard through a sustainable land care panel discussion followed by an information fair.
Co-Sponsored by Accabonac Protection Committee.
1:00 – 2:00 pm Panel Discussion covering topics including nature-based lawn care, lawn alternatives, supporting wildlife with native plants, ticks and pest management, compost, and more.
2:00 – 3:30 pm “Ask me About” Information Fair tabled by local environmental and gardening organizations
Learn more and register for free here
Tickets are free.
Pre-registration is encouraged, but walk-ins are welcome.
Partners include ReWild Long Island, Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardener, ChangeHampton, East Hampton Compost, Peconic Estuary Partnership, Suffolk Alliance for Pollinators, Peconic Land Trust, and Suffolk County Water Authority.
From Formality to Freedom: One Gardener’s Path to a More PRFCT Practice
Monday, April 29, 2024
6 p.m.
Greenwich Botanical Center
Cos Cob, CT
Perfect Earth Director Toshi Yano will present “From Formality to Freedom: One Gardener’s Path to a More PRFCT Practice” at the Greenwich Botanical Center.
Learn more and reserve a seat here
This event is hosted in partnership with The Town of Greenwich Sustainability Committee.
Designing for Nature with Edwina von Gal and Toshi Yano
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
American Horticultural Society
Virtual
$15 AHS members/$20 non-members
Free your garden and design for independence! Join Edwina von Gal and Toshi Yano as they discuss their new vision of nature-based gardening. In this webinar, Edwina and Toshi will show how the approaches that drive contemporary horticultural aesthetics and methods often do not prioritize the health of plants, people, and the planet. Instead, they will offer a holistic approach to land care that’s based in the science of plant-wildlife relationships, soil microbiology, and water and biomass management. Edwina and Toshi will show how this new approach, based on what they call “PRFCTPractices”, is being implemented in landscapes as diverse as home gardens, public parks, colleges, corporate campuses, and cemeteries, and how you can incorporate them into your own practice.
Purchase tickets here
A Monadnock Garden Day: Gardening in a Changing World
Dinner with the presenters
Friday, June 14, 2024,
6:00 p.m.
Private home, Hancock, NH
Tickets $125, includes cocktail and dinner
Gardening in a Changing World Workshop
Saturday, June 15, 2024,
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Harris Center for Conservation Education
Hancock, NH
Tickets from $100, includes a brown bag lunch by Fiddleheads Cafe
Sign up for a speakers’ dinner and this full-day workshop at the Harris Center with Page Dickey, Edwina Von Gal, John Gwynne, and Helen O’Donnell—four innovative thinkers on gardening into the future. Symposium tickets include a bagged lunch and plant sale with regional nursery vendors!
Purchase dinner tickets here
Purchase workshop tickets here
Interested in having Edwina, Toshi, or another PRFCT team member speak at your event? Fill out our Speaker Request Form HERE.
Testimonials
[Edwina’s] presentation was inspirational, entertaining & filled with a joyous sense of freedom – all while imparting such important information & a new way of looking at landscapes & plantings. I am so interested in getting as many of our residents as possible to understand a new perception of beauty.
~ Jean Thatcher, Three Harbors Garden Club
We received wonderful, positive feedback from so many of the attendees who said that they felt informed and empowered to make changes in their home landscape practice towards a more ‘magical’ and sustainable model.
~Lisa de Guzman, Three Harbors Garden Club
My husband and I are totally inspired! And the feedback today says…so are the 175 + guests listening last night.
~ Laura Blumin, Three Harbors Garden Club