Shawn Maestretti Garden Architecture is now Studio Petrichor!

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JULY 8th @ 6:30 PM Pacific Time, Altadena, CA

Regenerative Landscapes and the Climate Crisis – FREE LIVE EVENT VIA ZOOM

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2020 Event Calendar

Come with us on a journey beyond sustainability.

  • July

    JULY 8th @ 6:30 PM Pacific Time, Altadena, CA

    Regenerative Landscapes and the Climate Crisis – FREE LIVE EVENT VIA ZOOM

    We have changed the format to a LIVE ZOOM MEETING. We accepting up to 35 reservations. You will be sent a ZOOM LINK after you RSVP. This event is by invite only!

    Meeting will open at 6:30 and we will begin promptly at 6:45 pm.

    Regenerative Landscapes and the Climate Crisis highlights the current endangered state of our landscapes and offers solution-oriented techniques for zero-waste/carbon-neutral garden designs, drawing upon nature’s processes. Shawn and Leigh focus on how nurturing living soil, capturing rainwater, sequestering carbon, and planting climate-appropriate plants for biodiversity are not just aspirational design practices, but real life solutions accessible to homeowners, garden enthusiasts, and landscape professionals alike. It is possible to enjoy beautiful gardens that work towards carbon-neutrality and actively regenerate our environment.

    This timely and informative presentation has been well received by audiences at the Los Angeles County Arboretum, The Huntington Gardens, Men’s Garden Club, The Davis Village Homes, Aquarium of the Pacific, Tree People, and many more across the state of California.

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    JULY 18th @ 8:30 AM Pacific Time, Altadena, CA

    Learning Shou Sugi Ban for Resiliency

    Come learn the basics of Shou Sugi Ban, the Japanese art of heating wood to render its fitre, water and insect resistant…in Altadena, CA.

    This will be our first attempt to bring our community of regenerative thinkers and builders together to consider fun, artistic and tangible ways to fortify your home and landscape by using fire….YES FIRE can help prevent fire and other types of damage. This method of burning wood has been used to fortify the home, especially in high-risk fire zones. Come see how we are creating a more defensible homestead here in Altadena, CA.

    An additional tour of our “resilient homestead” garden is included, with some background on hugelkultur, water-wise garden practices, native plants, edible gardens and rainwater harvesting.

    Come and learn how to reimagine your homestead, improve your skills and develop a deeper connection to nature.

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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
    Themeforest Customer

Meet Your Distinguished Speakers

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

Designer, arborist, contractor, plantsman, educator, thought leader 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 to for years to come. Shawn combines extensive horticultural experience, strong composition skills, and environmentally sensible practices with a wide palette of visually and textually 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 Climate Reality: Regeneration of the Landscape. 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 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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