Learn to create a home landscape that is full of life!
Save the date for What Is Wild and Why It Matters. You’ll discover how inviting a bit of authentic wildness can create a vibrant landscape that sustains you and local biodiversity.
April 28th | 11am - 1pm ET
Webinar with Q&A
Can’t make it live? A recording will be available through May 28th, 2026.
This event is a fundraiser for Homegrown National Park and Wild Ones.
Join award-winning author, photographer, and educator Rick Darke for this engaging virtual event.
A thriving home landscape is full of life—human and otherwise, offering daily opportunities to connect with the natural world. By welcoming a bit of authentic wildness, you can create a vibrant, resilient landscape that sustains you while supporting local and regional biodiversity.
In this webinar, Rick will explore the dynamic nature of wild gardening. Through real-world examples, he’ll show how working with self-sustaining plant communities instead of rigid designs can be both ecologically sound and practical for homeowners.
You'll leave with:
- A deeper understanding of wildness as a continuum.
- A renewed awareness of its presence in everyday life.
- A framework for creating landscapes that are both functional and rooted in place.
TICKETS
Choose the option that works best for you.
Biodiversity Supporter Ticket: $25
General Admission: $10
Open Door Ticket: Free
All ticket types include full access to the event—including our Open Door Ticket, part of our effort to make our programs available to all. Choosing the Supporter or General Admission Ticket helps the missions of Homegrown National Park and Wild Ones.
Meet the Presenter:
Rick Darke is an award-winning landscape designer, author, photographer, and educator known for shaping how we think about wildness in managed landscapes. His work bridges ecology, cultural geography and aesthetics, showing that residential landscapes can be biologically rich and visually compelling at the same time.
Rick has collaborated with leading ecological thinkers, including Douglas Tallamy, and co-authored influential books such as The Living Landscape, The Wild Garden: Expanded Edition and Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes. His now-classic book The American Woodland Garden was among the first to employ firsthand studies of wild habitats to provide landscape design and management strategies based on living processes.
Through decades of design, writing, and teaching, Rick has advanced the idea that wilderness need not be something separate from our daily lives, but is instead essential to connecting us with the extraordinarily interwoven web of life we call Nature.
