What if the lawn you’ve been meaning to do something about is actually a piece of a much larger ecological puzzle — and the math works out in our favor?
On Tuesday March 17 at 7pm, LexCAN is hosting a free virtual talk on Habitat Patches with Rachel Summers — plant nerd, climate organizer, and the person behind the pocket forest at Lincoln Park.
The core idea: standardized, pre-designed native plantings small enough for any suburban yard, replicable enough to spread across a neighborhood, and together capable of functioning as distributed ecological infrastructure. Think IKEA-fication of habitat restoration — but what comes in the kit is a plant community, not particleboard.
Rachel will make the case for why this approach matters, show what’s already in progress in Lexington, and share how to get involved.
Free and virtual.