Sponsored by Lexington Living Landscapes and hosted by Cary Memorial Library.
The way we currently manage the suburban and urban landscape is creating a wasteland and harming the well-being of Earth. We pave over forests, use giant machines to scrape away healthy soil, and turn thriving grasslands into dead lawns. Fortunately, we have an alternative path: we can work with natural systems instead of working against them: caring for trees, soil, and the well-being of Earth can yield a more beautiful world than what we have experienced previously.
Basil will begin by examining how the systems of photosynthesis and soil formation work and how they affect water, carbon, and all other life on land. He then turns to practices we can implement that help heal Earth based on his first-hand expertise developed at Leaf & Limb, starting with the easiest concepts, like planting saplings and saving mature trees. Then he’ll move to some more challenging, more impactful approaches, like planting pocket forests and replacing our lawns with native meadows. Finally, for those who want to help shift paradigms even more, he discusses how we can use the Project Pando model to work within our community to gather native seeds, raise them into trees, and give them away for free.
Basil Camu pursues his purpose and passions as the co-founder of Leaf & Limb, a tree care company in Raleigh, NC, and Project Pando, a non-profit that aims to connect people to trees. He is a Treecologist, ISA Board Certified Master Arborist, Duke graduate, Wizard of Things, and author of the book From Wasteland to Wonder – Easy Ways We Can Help Heal Earth in the Sub/Urban Landscape. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Seattle Times, Forbes, Gardenista, The Joe Gardener Show, and a number of other publications and podcasts. When he’s not having fun at work, he likes to pull invasive plants from his pocket forests, contemplate on his front porch, and go hiking with his family.
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