Gardening, Nature, and Home

Project Green: Conifer Companions

Gary Wittenbaugh, Iowa's dwarf conifer guru, has lectured extensively throughout the US on the use of conifers and conifer companions in the garden and landscape. Gary has been gardening for...

Gardening, Nature, and Home Project GREEN

Eco Iowa City: Improving Water Quality, Starting With Your Property

Discover what you can do to improve water quality at your home by capturing the rain that falls on your property. Learn about best management practices, including rain barrels, rain gardens and...

Gardening, Nature, and Home Eco Iowa City

Project Green: One Acre at a Time

Dick Baker, retired UI professor of geology, will describe the joys and the difficulties he has experienced trying to increase biodiversity, preserve native communities, decrease erosion and...

Gardening, Nature, and Home Project GREEN

Getting excited about water gardening/Landscaping with stone

Part of our 2011 Second Sunday Garden Forum series. Guest speaker Jamie Beyer, founder of the Central Iowa Water Garden Association has a Masters Degree in Fish and Wildlife Biology and is a...

Gardening, Nature, and Home

Sowing Ideas, Growing Consensus

Hickory Hill Park Community Conservation Symposium

Gardening, Nature, and Home

Identifying Garlic Mustard

A guide to identifying garlic mustard.

Gardening, Nature, and Home

Eco Iowa City: Preserving Old Windows with Bob Yapp

Old Windows Aren't a Pane -- They're Green Preserving Old Windows with Bob Yapp. “Old Windows Aren't A Pane---They're Green,” is a fun and intense, two-hour seminar designed to...

Gardening, Nature, and Home Eco Iowa City

Eco Iowa City: How to make a rain barrel

Join ECO Iowa City to learn how to make a simple rain barrel to improve water quality and reduce the amount of runoff at your home. Presentation by Chant Eicke, Master Gardener and environmental...

Gardening, Nature, and Home Eco Iowa City