Date/Time
Date: 04/25/2025Time: 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Location
Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa San Diego3999 Mission Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92109
Are you a practicing landscape designer? If so, attend the incomparable Association of Professional Landscape Designers’ International Conference and catch Pamela’s talk with colleague, Rosalind Haselbeck: The Great Lawn Rethink: Exploring Radical Diversity in Every Landscape on Friday, Apil 25, 2025 at the Catamaran Resort Hotel & Spa in San Diego, CA.
Here’s a preview of the conversation:
Why remove monoculture lawn to create landscapes that achieve our design objectives when we could keep the grass in place and turn it into the nursemaid for a highly biodiverse and naturalistic “polyculture” lawn?
Pamela Berstler will explore the science underlying the Take Back the Turf strategy developed by Flower to the People to provide a low-cost, accessible, watershed-wise, and fun turf replacement solution. This audacious strategy uses classic turf management techniques paired with a highly biodiverse seed mix and stimulated by human “Nike Buffalo” interactions with the site to reduce water requirements, eliminate the use of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers, cool our urban/suburban areas, and boost the opportunities for the native seed bank to thrive.
Rosalind Haselbeck, PhD, will discuss the work of her San Diego-based nonprofit, Dwelling on Carbon, and its focus on pairing environmental and social justice in residential and park projects, to provide pollinator habitat and beauty where they are most needed. Rosalind is experimenting with installations that use several local “polyculture” seed mixes she has developed for different lawn situations. Soil health testing protocols will be discussed as well the data gathering process and results for different sites including institutional, residential, and open space positive controls.
Learn more by contacting the APLD
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