Learn benefits of native shrubs at CFC Community Education series

Posted March 06, 2017 10:00 pm

Citizens for Conservation submission

"Native Shrubs as Habitat and Host Plants," the March program in Citizens for Conservation's 2017 Community Education program series, will focus on how indigenous creatures use native shrubs for food, shelter and reproduction.

The program will be Saturday, March 11, at Barrington village hall, 200 S. Hough St., Barrington.

Speaker will be Connor Shaw, owner of Possibility Place Nursery, the area's leading showcase for native arboriculture. Shaw has been growing and selling native woody plants since 1978 and has a bachelor of science in forest hydrology and an master's degree in wild land hydrology.

The program will begin at 10 a.m.; come for coffee, conversation and handouts at 9:30. Program is free for CFC members; $10 for nonmembers. Parking is available in the lot behind village hall.

Please RSVP to (847) 382-SAVE (7283) or to communityed@citizensforconservation.org. Provide your name, phone number and the program name.

The final program in the series will be "Personal Land Restoration," on Saturday, April 8. Ders Anderson, greenways director at Openlands, will tell the story of the prairie that he and his family began in 1981.

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