2022 Sundays at Two Lecture Series Continues
Goodbye Lawn, Hello Biodiversity
with Suzanne Ruggles, The Barefoot Gardener
Sunday, October 16th, 2:00 p.m.
Long Pond Greenbelt Nature Center
1061 Bridgehampton/Sag Harbor Turnpike
Suzanne Ruggles, The Barefoot Gardener, is a naturalist and native plants gardener. In this talk, she will talk about the dangers and sadness of the typical Hamptons “landscape”, and why we should be doing away with lawns altogether - instead revegetating with native trees, shrubs, and wildflowers to restore our ecosystem for the benefit of all life.
A woman on a mission, Ms Ruggles wants to dissuade us from using pesticides, wasting water, destroying habitat, and polluting the air with our all too common landscaping practices. Suzanne will address the many benefits of native plants and other natural elements in an intact eco system, including how they benefit native animals and insects with which they have symbiotically co evolved.
“Bright green carpet-like lawns are an abomination”, she says, “possible only with the assistance of harmful chemicals that subdue the complex ecosystem that has survived here for millennia”.
By demonstrating how spectacular, how peaceful, how biodiverse, and how life-affirming native plantings can be, and by educating about the benefits, joys, and freedom of native eco systems, Suzanne is transforming not just lawns, but the attitudes of land owners toward the slice of nature they can directly control.
The Long Pond Greenbelt Nature Center is located at
1061 Bridgehampton/Sag Harbor Turnpike & and is handicap accessible
(look for the “Open” flag and follow drive to the end).
All Sundays at Two events are free and open to the public.
Refreshments are served.
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