CERTIFICATE

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 provide the essential elements of food, water, and shelter. Through a science-informed lens, you’ll examine the life cycles, behavioral patterns, and habitat requirements of regional birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and invertebrates, with emphasis on how native vegetation underpins their survival. 🥬Through guided field sessions in

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 trees establish successfully and support long-term landscape goals. 🥬Build skill in evaluating the biomechanical condition of mature trees, recognizing structural defects, and implementing mitigation strategies which balance safety with ecological value. 🥬Explore how senescent, damaged, and dead trees can be retained or repurposed to provide

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, and gain confidence in vegetative reproduction by practicing when and how to take, prepare, and root cuttings. 🥬Participants leave with prepped pots of native seeds and cuttings from Mt. Cuba’s garden, along with a bio-dome to continue growing at home. This workshop is ideal for