Think Like A Forest with Anna Fialkoff
Tomorrow, Friday, August 26th
12:00 - 1:00pm

Planting Native Trees to Support Local Food Webs

Native trees offer countless benefits beyond their four-season beauty––purifying air, shading and cooling in hot weather, storing atmospheric carbon, minimizing flooding and storm water runoff and helping to sustain vital pollinators, birds and other wildlife. It is important to consider trees as part of a forest-like system, even when not planted in actual forests but around homes and businesses, in parks and public open spaces, along city streets and highway margins and even in parking lot islands. In this one hour talk, Anna will teach the what, why, and how of planting native trees to support local food webs.

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As Wild Seed Project’s Ecological Programs Manager, Anna furthers the organization’s educational mission to inspire people to return native plants to the Maine landscape and works with partners to demonstrate rewilding in action. Anna was most recently Senior Horticulturist at Native Plant Trust’s Garden in the Woods in Framingham, MA, where she designed and installed native plant gardens, managed interns and volunteers, and taught community members ways to incorporate native plants in their own gardens. With a BA in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic and an MS in Ecological Design from The Conway School, she brings with her a deep knowledge of native plant ecology, horticulture, conservation, and ecological landscape design.