Piedmont Connect Hosts Living with the Drought Webinar
Piedmont Connect hosted a virtual drought information and education event co-sponsored by the City of Piedmont. Piedmont Parks Manager, Nancy Kent, opened the September 30, 2021 event moderated by Piedmont resident and water expert Eileen White.
An overview by Our Water Our World’s Suzanne Bontempo was followed by presentations from Piedmont resident climate champions Julia Burke, Brett Byers, and Hope Salzer. These residents are using the latest scientific research on how to sustain a healthy ecosystem in the 21st century. They have transformed their home’s landscaping into chemical-free, water-efficient oases supporting a range of nature’s co-habitators.
This U.S. Drought Monitor map displays conditions in early March 2022.
A home destroyed in the 2020 North Complex fire sits above Lake Oroville in Oroville, Calif. At the time of this photo, the reservoir was at 39% of capacity and 46% of its historical average. (Noah Berger / Associated Press)
Piedmont Connect Launches Self-Guided Fall Front Garden Tour
Announced at 2021’s Piedmont Harvest Festival, Piedmont Connect unveiled our Self-Guided Fall Front Garden Tour, showcasing 14 front gardens, arrayed among Piedmont’s neighborhoods, whose plant choices and visual composition demonstrate how thoughtfully-designed gardens can be beautiful, gentle on our watershed, and contribute to a healthy local biosphere all at the same time.
Our tour was a selection of Piedmont street-front gardens featuring an array of drought-tolerant and native-dominant landscaping styles in neighborhoods from Baja to St James Wood and from Moraga Avenue to Lakeshore. We hope you enjoyed the 2021 tour and are inspired to try some of the options on display. Fall is the season to plant new plants so that late fall and winter rains work to help young plants develop healthy root systems. Happy planting!
Piedmont’s certified Monarch Waystations are effective at attracting resident Monarch populations and supporting their long annual migration.
A mature wildlife garden provides the food, shelter, water and breeding spaces needed to support local food webs.
