CERTIFICATE

Discover how simple and rewarding it can be to grow more of the native plants you love. This hands-on workshop, led by Mt. Cuba’s Conservation and Research team, introduces practical techniques for propagating plants from both seeds and cuttings. 🥬Learn the ethics of collecting wild seed, explore the fundamentals of seed biology, germination, and storage,

Learn the practices Mt. Cuba’s arborists use to integrate ecological thinking into every aspect of tree care, from planting and maintenance to risk assessment and long-term conservation. This course blends traditional arboriculture with cutting-edge ecological approaches, offering insight rarely featured in conventional training programs. 🥬Develop the ability to analyze and prepare planting sites so young

Transform your landscape into a thriving oasis that supports birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and a wide variety of beneficial insects. This immersive course blends ecological understanding with practical action, giving you the skills to turn any property large or small, residential, municipal, or commercial into meaningful wildlife habitat. 🥬Discover how to remove common hazards and

Discover the garden appeal of native plants of the Eastern Temperate Forest, which are not only beautiful and inspiring, but also critically important for maintaining healthy landscapes. You’ll discover a wide variety of native plants that can fulfill your gardening needs and support wildlife throughout the seasons. In Mt. Cuba’s stunning gardens, you will have

Discover the garden appeal of native plants of the Eastern Temperate Forest, which are not only beautiful and inspiring, but also critically important for maintaining healthy landscapes. You’ll discover a wide variety of native plants that can fulfill your gardening needs and support wildlife throughout the seasons. In Mt. Cuba’s stunning gardens, you will have

Discover the changes you can make to help build a resilient garden in a changing climate while improving the water quality in the local watershed. Learn how to implement various sustainable gardening and landscaping techniques that manage and conserve water. Reduce the demands of water management infrastructure by capturing the rain and keeping it onsite.

Ecologically sound landscapes are designed to fit the local environmental conditions and require fewer inputs to achieve success. Learn how to assess, inventory, and analyze a site, then make a conceptual design and planting plan selecting plants ideal for the site conditions and desired functions. Broaden your design perspective, increase biodiversity in the landscape with

Learn the methods Mt. Cuba’s arborists use to apply ecologically sound maintenance strategies and retain dead trees for wildlife while maintaining landscapes and built spaces. Develop a deeper connection to trees by understanding their outsized role in natural ecosystems and how they contribute, in both life and death, to forest ecology. Students will be trained