10/20/2026
What happens when we replace a patch of lawn, or an overgrown corner of a yard, with a meadow? Native meadows can be beautiful, dynamic, and extraordinarily valuable habitat, but creating one involves more than scattering a packet of wildflower seed and hoping for the best.
In Making Meadows, Ryan Kennedy of ReWild Native Plant Nursery will explore meadow-making by starting with a deceptively simple question: What is a meadow? From there, he’ll look at how meadows function as living plant communities and what that means for creating one on the North Oregon Coast. He’ll cover everything from understanding the existing landscape and preparing a site to choosing plants, exploring different meadow-establishment techniques, and managing a meadow as it changes over time. Along the way, he’ll consider what meadows can teach us about working with ecological processes rather than against them, and how even relatively small spaces can become diverse, resilient places for plants, pollinators, and people.
Join us in the Lovell Taproom of the Fort George
Thursday, October 22 from 7-8pm
This event is free and open to the public!
