Field Days

This tour is perfect for everyone from garden-lovers to landscape professionals! Board a bus to tour 5 sites in the Severna Park area demonstrating beautiful solutions to water pollution including rain gardens, conservation landscapes, stream restoration and rainwater harvesting. Hear from garden designers, installation experts and caretakers to learn tips and tricks to employing these powerful tools in your next project.

Visit 3 meadow sites that illustrate the Eight Essential Elements of Conservation Landscaping which include environmentally sensitive design, conservation of water, and use of native plants to create wildlife habitat.

Keep your business current with the latest trends in landscaping. Meadows are a great way to control stormwater and provide much needed food for pollinators.

Save the date for our conservation landscaping tour & field day, “Meadows: Landscape solutions for public and private properties”

Join CCLC for a field day at the US National Arboretum! Visit the Grass Roots exhibit with Coordinator, Geoff Rinehart, and landscape designer, Jenny Wienckowski. Learn about the Springhouse Run stream restoration and tour the Fern Valley Native Plant Collection with Curator, Joan Feely.

CCLC and Penn State Extension are partnering to offer a Field Day in the Harrisburg region. The day will start with training on invasive species and their control. The remainder of the day will be spent touring several sites that demonstrate conservation landscaping practices such as rain gardens and gardening with native plants.