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Lunz Logo Black and white imageJoin us April 4,

7pm for Sharleen Johnson: Gardening for Wildlife with Native Plants

In person: 101 Auditorium, Rita Liddy Hollings Science Center
College of Charleston, 58 Coming Street

Location of Rita Hollings Building

 

or Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYof-yhqjwsGdW_HJJukwRPGucq4yAJKBVs

Headshot of Sharleen Johnson

 

As an ecologist, Sharleen focuses on much more than just the plants when gardening: microscopic and macroscopic life in the soil, critters in the leaf litter, herbivorous and pollinating and predatory insects, and larger wildlife including lizards and birds. All organisms are dependent upon a specific set of environmental conditions and a balanced network of other organisms to thrive. Coastal South Carolina habitats are rapidly being converted into housing developments, and unfortunately most yards provide low quality habitat. Therefore it’s not surprising that many bird and pollinator species are undergoing concerning population declines. So… what can we do? Ensure that our yards and neighborhoods have real habitat value! Sharleen will provide an introduction to gardening with native plants to support pollinators, birds, and other wildlife.

NAtive plants Blooming red and blue With green and yellow butterflies

Speaker Bio: Sharleen has been gardening since childhood, starting in her mother's backyard organic vegetable garden. Training as a Master Urban Gardener in Boston, she subsequently taught multiple sections of that course, and has 13 years of experience gardening with native plants in the Charleston area. Sharleen earned an MS in Marine Biology from the College of Charleston and worked for 9 years as a Marine Ecologist for the SC Department of Natural Resources. She began blending her expertise as an ecologist with her lifelong interest in gardening here in Charleston and has served as a board member of the Lowcountry Chapter of the SC Native Plant Society for multiple years. In March 2022, Sharleen launched her native plant nursery and habitat garden consulting business: Native Plants to the People. Her passion -- and now profession -- is helping people to add natural beauty and habitat value to their home landscapes.

Sierra Club motto: Explore, enjoy and protect the planet. 

Land Acknowledgement

We want to acknowledge that we, the Robert Lunz Group of the Sierra Club (Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton and Dorchester Counties), work and live on lands once belonging to more than a dozen distinct groups of Native Americans whose existence is now evident in the familiar place names  including: Ashepoo, Awendaw/Sewee, Bohicket, Catawba, Combahee, Coosa, Edisto, Etiwan, Kiawah, PeeDee, Shem (named by Sewee Tribe), Stono, Wando, Wappoo, Wassamasaw and Winyah. Disease, warfare and displacement led to the extinction of most of these groups by the middle of the eighteenth century. Shell mound evidence indicates that Native Americans were present in the lowcountry as long as 4,000 years ago. Their presence has continued to the present day including the Catawba, PeeDee, Wassamasaw, Edisto and Winyah tribes. The Wassamasaw have applied for Federal recognition.  The Catawba Nation is the only Federally recognized tribe in South Carolina. A Native American Ceremonial Center is located in the Charles Towne Landing State Historic Park.

Sources

 https://native-land.ca/.

https://www.sciway.net/hist/indians/geo.html

https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/first-people-south-carolina-lowcountry

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