Thursday Night Nature: Restoring the Land Together, Joyfully: One Response to the Climate Crisis with Paige Menton (Apr. 06)

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “All of life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” When asked how a person should respond to the climate crisis, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe responded, “do anything!” Locating her compass north between these two points, Paige Menton founded Journeywork in 2022, a nonprofit organization based in Gwynedd, PA, that helps neighborhoods, schools and congregations—anyone with a lawn—to replace turf with native plants. In this talk, Menton will discuss her inspirations for this journey from both her home state of Alabama and the work of Doug Tallamy. She will describe the participatory model that Journeywork is building of community members helping each other to create biodiverse habitat on private land.

Paige Menton, a former elementary school teacher with an MA in environmental education, has been growing flowers and food for over twenty years. She took David Attenborough’s A Life on Our Planet as a call to action and founded Journeywork to offer people hopeful, energizing ways to respond to climate change together. She has a permaculture design certification, has taught gardening to children for several years and is the caretaker at Gwynedd Friends Meeting. Having grown up in the Cahaba River watershed, Menton now lives near the headwaters of the Wissahickon and enjoys birding.

Program Fee: $15 (Members, enter your code at checkout to receive your 20% discount.)

All lectures will be held virtually using Zoom. They will be recorded and shared with everyone who registers for a short time.