Read! Plant! Grow! Native Plants Book Club
Tue, May 27
|Birch Tree Bookstore
Join us for a quarterly discussion of a book about plants and gardening! A collaboration with LCPL, Loudoun Wildlife and Watermark Woods.
Time & Location
May 27, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Birch Tree Bookstore, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
Buy The Bad Naturalist on Booksop.org
If you can't attend in person, join virtually. Join from the LCPL meeting link.
One Woman's Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop
With humor, humility, and awe, one woman attempts to restore 200 acres of farmland long gone-to-seed in the Blue Ridge Mountains, facing her own limitations while getting to know a breathtaking corner of the natural world.
When Paula Whyman first climbs a peak in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in search of a home in the country, she has no idea how quickly her tidy backyard ecology project will become a massive endeavor. Just as quickly, she discovers how little she knows about hands-on conservation work. In Bad Naturalist, readers meander with her through orchards and meadows, forests and frog ponds, as she is beset by an influx of invasive species, rattlesnake encounters, conflicting advice from experts, and delayed…