About This Course
“Take back the Turf” is a landscape transformation strategy aimed at inexpensively transitioning conventionally managed lawn into highly biodiverse and water conserving groundcover suitable for commercial, institutional, and industrial non-functional turf areas.
Unlike the current practice of removing and replacing existing grass, it uses a conventional lawn over-seeding technique with a multi-species and flower-filled seed mix designed to enhance the performance of the existing turf and convert it into a low water polyculture groundcover.
Join Pamela Berstler to learn more about the 100 Acre Challenge pilot study and whether it might be something suitable for your area.
Learning Objectives
Material Includes
- Video - "Take Back the Turf"
- Additional materials - details of 100 Acre Challenge pilot project
Target Audience
- Water Agencies
- Utilities
- Municipalities
- Stormwater Departments
- Landscape Professionals
- Contractors
- Designer/Architects
Curriculum
Video: Take Back the Turf – 100 Acre Challenge
Video: Take Back the Turf – 100 Acre Challenge16:27
100 Acre Challenge Details
Your Instructors
Pamela Berstler
CEO, G3 Green Gardens Group
Our very own force of nature, Pamela Berstler is a highly experienced landscape expert who co-founded and continues to manage G3, Green Gardens Group. G3 is an award-winning EPA WaterSenseTM Partner and Professional Certifying Organization that educates and certifies property owners, policymakers, and landscape professionals throughout the U.S. and Canada in irrigation and rainwater capture using the Watershed Approach to landscaping.
Pamela spent a decade working as a landscape contractor with her own bespoke design/build firm specializing in innovations for sustainable cities. She didn’t come to landscapes and agriculture through a direct route, as she first took a detour through a career in derivative securities trading and raising private equity for technology and media companies. Pamela is deeply committed to the reinvigoration of American entrepreneurship through regenerative land management and agriculture.
Pamela is a 2019 Climate Reality Leader and is the recipient of many awards including the National APLD Sustainability Award, EPA Certifying Professional Organization of the Year, and Garden Communicators Association Green Medal in Sustainability.
Pamela incubated a love of gardening turning 40-year-old compost on her grandfather's urban farm and with her hands in the soil cultivating her mother's beloved tomato patch. And while she once loved the fast live, she now is returning to her roots, sharing her passion for growing family farm economic value and rebuilding rural comunities. Pamela is happiest in a garden and in front of an audience talking about the power of gardens to heal the planet.
Marianne Simon
Instructor
Born to a family of artists, Marianne has spent her life exploring creativity in its many facets. In 1999 she discovered the world of landscaping and a new way of expressing herself. She received her degree in Landscape Architecture and founded her landscape company, Poetic Plantings, with the vision of creating gardens that would nurture the spirit and nourish the earth.
Today she works with G3, Green Gardens Group, managing 'groundbreaking' programs, teaching and spreading the word about watershed-wise landscaping, and doing all she can to shift the pendulum back towards a healthy planet.
Material Includes
- Video - "Take Back the Turf"
- Additional materials - details of 100 Acre Challenge pilot project
We imagine resilient cities that are water and soil secure, with Watershed Wise landscapes, designed, built and managed by confident property owners and certified professionals who understand the connection each yard has to healing the global environment.
