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2021 Event Calendar

  • January
  • February

    Wednesday, February 3rd, 7:00 PM PST
    Regenerative Landscapes and the Climate Crisis
    Zoom Webinar hosted by The Sierra Club

    Join Shawn and Leigh for this Zoom webinar hosted by The Sierra Club. We’ll be presenting on the climate crisis and how we draw upon Nature’s processes to create resilient, regenerative landscapes and empower communities to protect our precious natural living systems. Come get inspired to take action in your yard or community!

    RSVP to Carole Scurlock at cscurlock@charter.net

     

    Thursday, February 4th, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm PST
    Regenerative Landscapes and the Climate Crisis:
    Reimagining Resilient Landscapes
    Live Webinar for the Landscape Expo Academy
    (Previously scheduled for January 14th)

    Join Shawn and Leigh for this live webinar for the Landscape Expo Academy. We’ll be discussing real-life landscaping solutions to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis that are accessible to homeowners, garden enthusiasts, communities, municipalities, and landscape professionals. Come get inspired to take action in your yard or community!

    More info and registration
    Get 10% off the registration fee with the discount code “ShawnDisc”!

     

    Sunday, February 14th, Time TBD
    Regenerative Landscapes and the Climate Crisis
    Zoom Webinar hosted by Tree of Life Nursery

    Join Shawn and Leigh for this Zoom webinar as we draw upon Nature’s processes to highlight the growing climate crisis, bringing solutions to the surface and empowering communities to protect natural, living systems. Embracing real-life solutions that are accessible to homeowners, garden enthusiasts, communities, municipalities, and landscape professionals, this timely and informative presentation immediately engages the audience to provide a blueprint for inspired actions.

    Check back later for more details!

     

    Saturday, February 20th, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm PST
    Landfill to Landscape in Topanga, CA
    Hands-On Hugelkultur Workshop

    Join Regenerative Garden Designers Leigh Adams and Shawn Maestretti for a hands-on opportunity to learn how to build a Hugelkultur berm to retain moisture, build healthy soil, grow a healthy garden, and support community. This is an opportunity to learn these practices so you can take them home and put into practice. All proceeds will go to our budding not-for-profit organization, Poly/Ana, where our mission is to educate communities as agents of change to honor and protect natural, living systems.

    Location in Topanga, CA, to be announced to registrants three days prior to the event. We will be taking extra precautions to keep people 6′ apart and safe while everyone has an opportunity to work together.

    More info and registration

  • March

Presentation Testimonials

  • “Nature-centric education plays a pivotal role in sparking intrinsic motivation, improving student behavior, promoting effective communication, strengthening cooperation, enhancing academic achievement, nurturing students with special needs and creating healthier, happier future generations. Shawn Maestretti and Leigh Adams’ presentation on Climate Reality will cater to all of the aforementioned advantages of educating students to walk with nature, protect it, and look up to it for answers to everything.”

    Kavitha Satya, Middle School Science Teacher, New Horizon School

  • “Wow. I have heard talks similar to pieces of yours but never one that had ALL of that excellent information in it. The graphics were spot on and made it so easy for anyone to understand what is going on with our planet. I believe that you should take your presentation to people in Congress. Everyone needs to experience this presentation. We do need to garden like our lives depend on it. I am inspired to go and really take my habitat gardening to the next level, starting with using Hugelkultur. Thank you so much!”

    Lisa Bellora, San Diego Landscape Designer

  • “I just attended a beautifully integrated lecture given by Mr. Shawn Maestretti entitled Climate Reality: Regeneration of the Landscape. This wonderful talk illuminated the interconnections between urban gardens, carbon sequestration, soil construction, water conservation, green mulch, and climate change… I highly recommend attending one of his educational programs if you have the opportunity.”

    Rebecca A. Behar-Johnson, recent attendee of Climate Reality: Regeneration of the Landscape presentation

  • “Kudos to Shawn Maestretti for his enthusiastic and skillful presentation of an emerging paradigm for urban gardens. This paradigm frames the global causes and impacts associated with climate change and describes actions that can be applied locally in gardens and landscapes of all sizes to address these causes and impacts.Climate Reality: Regeneration of the Landscape embraces carbon sequestration, heat island cooling, climate adapted plants, rainwater harvesting, habitat enhancement and a vision for gardens of the future.”

    Bob Perry, FASLA, Author of Landscape Plants for California Gardens

Meet Your Distinguished Speakers

Shawn Maestretti
Landscape Architect | California #6203, Nevada #1016

Designer, plantsman, licensed landscape architect and contractor, certified arborist, educator, and environmental steward. Shawn has been creating exceptionally designed and artfully developed gardens in both California and Nevada since 2006. Highly collaborative with a strong attention to detail and a knack for problem solving, he helps his clients realize outdoor living spaces that they will connect with for years to come. Shawn combines extensive horticultural experience, strong composition skills, and a deep knowledge of regenerative practices with a wide palette of visually and texturally interesting climate-appropriate plants, breathing new life and a sense of place into every garden.

As a member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corp, a Kiss the Ground Soil Advocate, and activist in the movement to care for the environment, Shawn has been presenting on regenerative landscapes and their impact on climate change in his new presentation series Regenerative Landscapes and the Climate Crisis. His personal mission is to connect with the natural world, tread lightly on the land, nurture biodiversity, protect water, and bring people together.

 

Leigh Adams
Consultant/Co-presenter

Leigh is an educator, eco-sensitive designer and horticultural interpreter at the LA County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens. She has trained many county agencies in regenerative practices as well as conducting hands-on workshops with local schools and professional groups. Her love of collaboration and education infuse all aspects of her work, leaving participants with a profound sense of empowered accomplishments. Currently she holds multiple artist’s residencies at the LA County Arboretum, Metabolic Studios, and New Horizon School. She has received a Global Citizen Award from the United Nations, an Angel Award from the City of Los Angeles, and an Outstanding Citizen Award from the County of Los Angeles.

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