PRESENTED BY DEEP ROOTS
PLAN IT NATIVE 2027
FEBRUARY 9-10, 2027
Registration Opens Mid-September! We are offering two full days to learn about native plants, designing and managing native plant gardens, and the flora/fauna connections we all appreciate.
Plan It Native opens on Tuesday morning, February 9, 2027 at the Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Kim Eierman
Ecological landscape designer and environmental horticulturist specializing in native plants. She is the owner of EcoBeneficial, LLC and author of The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening.
Benjamin Vogt
Owner of Prairie Up, offering garden design, online classes, workshops, webinars, and guidebooks. He is the author of A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future, as well as Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design. His forthcoming book, Unlawn America: A Grassroots Guide to Rewilding Your Yard, will be released by Timber Press in 2027.
Chris Helzer
Nebraska Director of Science and Stewardship for The Nature Conservancy. Chris uses his writing and photography to promote prairies and their conservation to a broad audience.
Plan It Native 2027 is offering more concurrent sessions, 28 in fact! Session topics include:
• Native plant selection and sociability
• Planting and maintaining green infrastructure projects
• How to support our native wildlife
• Shrubs and small trees in landscape design and ecosystem function
• Create community and sustainable native landscapes
• And much, much more!
Attendees will have plenty of time to socialize in our exhibit hall, lunch breaks, and the Tuesday evening social hour.