Planting trees and shrubs along streams supports stream health and stabilization! We call these smaller riparian buffers in urban and suburban areas “backyard buffers.”

These upcoming workshops will provide hands-on experience with conducting a site assessment and designing a backyard buffer. Certainly, a small backyard buffer has different design considerations compared to its larger country cousins. We invite all riparian landowners, landscape designers, and anyone interested to join!

The workshop will be facilitated by Nicola McGoff from Wild Ginger Field Services and David Hirschman with Hirschman Water & Environment, along with local partners.

Space is limited to 25 for each workshop. We recommend no more than four participants from one organization to ensure adequate opportunity for others, please email if you would like to request more spots. If space is full for the session you would like to attend and you want to be added to the waitlist, email Rachel Bensink at at rbensink@thejamesriver.org.

Workshop cost: Free! Please consider a donation to the Riparian Action Fund to support future programming.