This conference is for professionals in the landscaping industry only

(landscape designers, landscape architects, crews, growers, nurseries, landscape maintenance, property managers, builders, etc.) 

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Earth-friendly lawn care - Paul Tukey

 

Alternatives to turfgrass lawns: low-growing native plants to make any HOA happy - Adele Kuo

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Making native plants your business  - Neal Beasley

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Abour our speakers:

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Paul Tukey

Paul Tukey is an award-winning journalist, author, filmmaker, HGTV host, consultant and motivational public speaker who is internationally recognized as a pioneering leader in sustainable landscaping. Having served as Director of Environmental Stewardship at Glenstone since 2010, Paul helped to create a “living classroom” on the all-organic 300-acre site that includes native meadows, a five-acre organic lawn, restored streams and tributaries, forests and more than 12,000 recently planted native trees. 

 

Winner of the prestigious Communicator of the Year Award from the American Horticultural Society, as well as the 2018 Green Medal Award from the Garden Writers of America, Paul has been featured in thousands of media outlets from Martha Stewart and Good Morning America as well as National Geographic, Readers Digest and the New York Times, which called him, “The godfather of the natural land care movement.”  His books include the Organic Lawn Care Manual (Storey 2007). His 2010 feature-length documentary film titled, “A Chemical Reaction,” profiling the lawn pesticide bans sweeping across Canada and the U.S., earned three EMMY nominations. 

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Neal Beasley​

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Adele Kuo is the founder of Deco Footprint, a full-service landscape company blendin architecture and landscapes into livable, enjoyable spaces. also serves on the Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council (CCLC) Board of Directors, co-chairs the Development Committee, and is a certified Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional (CBLP) Level 1 & 2, and VA Living Shorelines. She holds a Masters degree in Sustainable Landscape Design from The George Washington University and a BA from the University of Virginia. Adele shared her passion for living a more sustainable lifestyle by researching, writing, and reporting “It’s Easy Being Green” featured on Arlington Weekly News from 2011 to 2019.  You can view it on YouTube.   

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