BTN Professional Consulting
Back to Natives Restoration can provide your organization with habitat restoration services, volunteer training, and environmental education (like scout programs, lectures, workshops and guided hikes). We also offer landscape design consulting! Scroll down to see how we can work with you!
Landscape Design Consulting
We believe that there is an appropriate – and beautiful – native plant to replace any commercially available plant at the local nursery. Back to Natives can work with you to develop a landscape plan that will please your senses and fit your lifestyle. Whether your goal is to draw more butterflies or birds to your yard, save water, reduce pesticide use, or to showcase color throughout the year, we can help!
By landscaping your yard with native plants, you do more than save water and provide habitat for animals. You educate your friends, family and neighbors about native plants and their benefits.
Back to Natives uses the profits earned from landscaping your home to continue our environmental education programs, and help restore wild, open spaces. When you pay us to develop and implement a landscape plan, you are providing habitat for animals in your backyard AND in an open space near you. Click HERE to see our client portfolio!
Lectures and Classes
Schedule a Back to Natives speaker for your meeting or event. Topics include:
- Biodiversity and Why We Care!
- The Color Wheel of the Year: Native Plants throughout the Seasons
- Orange County Butterflies and their Host Plants
- Back to Native: Alternatives to Traditional Landscape Plants
- Butterfly and Hummingbird Gardening
- Native American uses of Native Plants
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Native Certification Class. Learn to ID – to the genus level – Orange County native plants by community. This 6 week course takes students to locations throughout OC, covering the coastal sage scrub, chaparral, oak woodland, grassland, wetland, and coastal strand/bluff plant communities. $60/student (min. 10)
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Native Container Gardening Workshop. Create a mini plant community using container friendly natives. One day workshop includes all materials – container, soil, plants, etc. $60/student (min. 10)
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Native Plant Garden Maintenance. Learn how to maintain your native garden. Incorporates planning for height, spread and water requirements. Covers commonly used native plants and describes their individual capacity for pruning, accidental over or under watering, and ease of propagation. $10/student (min 10)
Restoration Volunteer Training Program
Back to Natives Restoration can provide training and recruitment for restoration volunteers for your organization!. We will educate volunteers in dry restoration practices. Dry restoration is weed abatement and seeding where applicable, as water is a scarce resource. Each training session will focus on specific aspects of the restoration process from rudimentary tool identification and tool and trail safety training, to non native weed identification and native species identification, proper site entry/exit protocol as well as mechanical/physical abatement techniques to reduce soil disturbance and possible weed seed germination. "If you don't know it, don't pull it!
Current Clients Inlcude: United States Forest Service, Trabuco Ranger District of the Cleveland National Forest.
Theatre in the Park, Theatre in the Forest - DIRECTOR NEEDED!
Back to Natives Restoration has developed and is promoting a community development project to perform conservation themed plays and theatrical presentations at Orange County Nature Centers, Wilderness Parks and the Cleveland National Forest. Through partnerships in the community with Parks, Nature Centers, University of California Irvine faculty and private citizens we hope to plant the seed of conservation, sustainable living, habitat restoration, volunteerism and community involvement throughout Orange County. The staff at Back to Natives believes that the best way to save habitat is “one person at a time.” We recognize that you influence the choices others make through your example.
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School Program Consulting Allow Back to Natives to develop and implement a custom educational program for your facility or organization. Environmental Education is increasingly seen as the tool necessary for organizations to reach out to the community to help them become aware of more sustainable living practices. BTN curriculum is customized to your location and ecological emphasis for your organization. All BTN curriculum is aligned to state guidelines and standards. |
Habitat Restoration Consulting .Let Back to Natives assist your organization with habitat restoration with research and development of an historically accurate and location appropriate species list. BTN provides full research on locale specific species research and onsite survey and monitoring. Planting and seeding procedures will be finely documented. Remember, restoration is only successful when the community is involved and volunteerism is encouraged. |
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Native Plant Propagation Program Back to Natives Restoration is dedicated to the appreciation and use of locally native plant species in every aspect of our lives. There is a great need for the understanding and proper training in the use of native plant species. People visiting a nursery to purchase plants areu usually not there for a specific species. instead they are looking for what looks healthy, green and has flowers. Propagating natives for the public is one necessary step towards shifting the mindset from water hungry plants. |
Volunteer Training and Recruitment Back to Natives Restoration provides a full service Restoration Volunteer Training and Recruitment Program. Volunteer training and recruitment can be the most difficult and time consuming aspect of any organization. Without volunteers however many of our projects and daily tasks would not be performed. With proper training volunteers can be your most prized asset, and great friends to boot! Allow us to recruit Volunteers for your next project, and we'll show you how valuable volunteers really are! |
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Native Plant Garden Consulting Water conservation and costs of garden maintenance are turning most people sour towards lawn and gardens. Let Back to Natives examine your yard and area to give you the tools and information necessary for a more successful landscape. BTN will visit your site and give you tips and information on how you can turn a water hungry lawn and traditional non-native landscape into a water saving, money saving beautiful native garden. Gardening should be enjoyable not a punishing labor, BTN will show you how to make it fun again while providing habitat for birds and butterflies!. |
