How You Can Create a Beautiful Backyard Habitat by Rosina Newton

Rosina will share several delightful ways you can provide habitat for your non-human neighbors right in your own yard - and why! In this presentation, you will learn at least one thing you can do to provide food and shelter for beneficial insects, pollinators (such as butterflies and bumblebees), songbirds, and more. And you don’t need to buy birdseed or a birdbath! You can choose from the simplest first step or, when you’re ready, begin to develop a long-range plan for a beautiful habitat wonderland in your yard that will bring life, loveliness, and enchantment year-round to you, your family, and all your neighbors - human and otherwise.

BIO:

Rosina Newton is a horticulturist with over 35 years’ experience. Highlights include working at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Texas, with Central Park Conservancy in New York, MSU Tollgate Farm in Novi, and now Friends of the Rouge. At FOTR, she is coordinating volunteer events where everyone can contribute to a cleaner Rouge River, and the Rain Gardens to the Rescue community program. As a lifelong student and educator, she enjoys bringing her horticultural experience to audiences everywhere.

Friends of The Rouge

www.therouge.org

Membership check-in c 6:30 pm Presentation to follow at 7:00 pm mgwwc.org Presentation is open to the public