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Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour & Kathy Kramer’s Garden
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Join us for an online event to learn about how Kathy created a fantastic California Native Plant Tour, now celebrating 20 years! And then Kathy will give us a virtual tour of her garden in the East Bay, and tell us about the birds, butterflies, and caterpillars she has seen in her garden.
Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour and Green Home Features Showcase
Glance at the tour home page to get a good overview of everything offered on the tour. Each garden on the tour has its own profile page with photos, plant list, and most also have a video! All profile pages of gardens in past tours are also on the website.
Since 2005, the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour, together with passionate native plant gardeners located throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties, has set the standard for sustainable landscaping in Northern California. The Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour shows that native gardens are beautiful and can be designed on any budget-and conveys the idea that each of us plays a critical role in supporting biodiversity.
The exemplary landscapes on the Tour hope to inform, inspire, and motivate you to incorporate native plants into your own gardens.
Since the Tour’s inception, more than 200,000 garden visits have been made to native plant gardens showcased on the Tour. The 2024 Tour featured 60 gardens, which can be seen on the Tour’s website. You can view photos of each of these gardens, read a description of the garden, and print out its plant list at View the Gardens. In 2024 20 of these homeowners are sharing their green home features; ask these hosts about their solar panels, batteries, heat pumps, induction ranges, insulation, and more!
The gardens on the Tour contain at least 70% native plants, are pesticide-free, water-conserving, and provide habitat for wildlife.
The website is broad and deep with garden profiles, sections on Professor Doug Tallamy, who has been a speaker, home electrification, fire-resistant landscapes and plants, and much more!
Speaker Bio: Kathy Kramer
Bringing Back the Natives Garden our Founder and Coordinator
For nearly forty years Kathy Kramer has been developing programs that educate Bay Area residents about local environmental issues. Most recently, Ms. Kramer developed and runs the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour, which you’ll hear about today.
Prior to starting the garden tour Ms. Kramer founded and was Executive Director of the Aquatic Outreach Institute (later renamed The Watershed Project). Programs developed under Ms. Kramer’s oversight include the teacher-training workshops Kids in Creeks and Kids in Gardens. She has developed a number of successful community-based programs, which resulted in the formation of the Friends of Sausal Creek, the Friends of San Leandro Creek, and SPAWNERS. Ms. Kramer has also created and managed both Community Stewardship and Teacher Action Grants programs.
The programs developed under Ms. Kramer’s leadership have received local, state, and national awards, including the Department of Pesticide Regulation’s Environmental Innovator’s Award, the Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award, the National Wetlands Award for Education/Outreach Award, the National Wildlife Federation’s Education and Outreach Award, the Jefferson Award, and most recently, the Sustainable Contra Costa Environmental Educator Award.
16 сен 2024
