Lawns Gone Wild is a yearlong sustainable backyard education series and is offered in collaboration with Town of Cumberland's LCC Sustainability Committee and Chebeague and Cumberland Land Trust.

Explore gardening and landscaping with an eye toward creating and maintaining habitat for local wildlife.
Speaker: Aaron Parker, Edgewood Nursery in Falmouth, Maine.

In this second session of our series, participants learn the essentials of starting, planting and maintaining a new garden. We discuss several techniques to help minimize the problems associated with organic gardening and keep it fun.
Speaker: Aaron Parker, Edgewood Nurseries in Falmouth.
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In this third session of the Lawns Gone Wild series, participants will learn that any landscape can incorporate an abundance of edible plants. Learn about a selection of styles, techniques and plants to turn your surroundings into an edible oasis.
Speaker: Aaron Parker, Edgewood Nurseries in Falmouth.

Learn the art and craft of saving seeds from any plant. Speaker Aaron Parker of Edgewood Nursery in Falmouth (Maine) talks about plant genetics and hybridization, including how to keep the next generation the same, or create a new variety.

A food forest is a way of laying out a landscape to mimic a natural forest, providing food and other human needs with a minimum amount of external inputs and maximum benefits to wildlife and the greater environment. Guest speaker Aaron Parker introduces the concepts of ecological niches, analogs, and resource partitioning so you can design your own home-scale food forest. He also covers best practices for starting a food forest and recommended species to plant.