Knowing Newark: Native Plants Walk

500 Paper Mill Road,Newark DE 19716

30 April, 2022

Description

An educational walk talking about the types of native (invasive) plants that grow in our woods. Join us as Dale Hendricks leads us on a walking tour through the woods of Redd Park and teaches us about the native plants that grow there. Dale has been growing and propagating plants professionally since 1975 when he joined Green Leaf Enterprises in Lancaster, Pa. In 1988 he co-founded North Creek Nurseries, Inc along with current owner Steve Castorani in order to propagate and grow perennials and grasses with an emphasis on natives and garden selections of natives. In 2009 he founded Green Light Plants, LLC. To consult on carbon friendly and regenerative landscapes; growing native, woodland and permaculture plants regeneratively, organically and joyfully. He has been honored with the American Horticulture Society’s Individual Commercial award and the Perennial Plant Association’s Young Professional award and much to his surprise, in November, 2015 the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society presented him with their award of merit. He has taught plant propagation at Longwood Gardens and lectures widely. He served on the founding board of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia and as co-chair from 2004-2007. He also served on the founding Steering Committee and remains active with the Native Plants in the Landscape Conference at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. He has been a permaculture and biochar advocate and practitioner since ’09 and has presented many workshops and demonstrations in the east and Mid-Atlantic States since that time. In the last few years he has assisted and taught biochar production as a soil building and clean cooking strategy in Costa Rica and Jamaica. He makes biochar while cooking and gardening and implements it in his compost, soil building, horticultural and household endeavors. Dale lives in Landenberg, southern Chester County, Pa with his family where he gardens, propagates plants, and works on rewilding- growing the productivity, diversity, capacity and resilience of the land.