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DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=BASE64:<p>Benjamin Vogt will help us to "use&nbsp;Nature to create
\nresilient and beautiful landscapes that bring the prairie home". </p>
\n<p>Learn more
\nabout incorporating native plants into your gardens&nbsp;during our next
\nvirtual Speaker Series event with&nbsp;Council Bluffs Public Library&nbsp;on
\nThursday, May 13th&nbsp;at 7:00 p.m.
\n&nbsp;</p>
\n<p><strong>Register at this link: <a href="https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aUHsfJBtS6SFQJNWlXiY6g">ZOOM Registration Link</a></strong></p>
\n<p>
\nPresenter Benjamin Vogt is owner of Monarch Gardens LLC, a
\nprairie-inspired design firm based in Lincoln. He speaks nationally on garden
\ndesign and environmental ethics and for over 5 years wrote an award-winning
\nnative plant column at Houzz which garnered over 3 million readers. <a href="https://www.monarchgard.com/books.html">Benjamin is the author of the books A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for An Uncertain Future and the forthcoming Prairie Up: An Introduction to Nature-Based Garden Design (2022).</a>&nbsp;
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\n</p>
\n<p>
\nThis program will be virtual, please register to receive a
\nzoom link.</p>
\n<p> However, those in the Council Bluffs area can watch the zoom meeting
\nin Meeting Room B at the Council Bluffs Public Library, located at 400 Willow
\nAvenue&nbsp;in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Contact the library to reserve your seat
\nat&nbsp;(712) 323-7553.</p>
\n<p>This event is free, pre-registration is required to attend
\nas space is limited, walk in participants will not be admitted. </p>
\n<p>This program is
\npart of our adult education programming, we ask that participants be age 14
\n&amp; over please. For questions not answered online please call
\n712-545-3283.&nbsp;
\n&nbsp;</p>
\n<p>If you attend the Zoom screening at the Council Bluffs
\nPublic Library:&nbsp;
\n&nbsp;
\n</p>
\n<p>
\nAttendees are required to wear a mask for the entire
\nduration of the program
\n</p>
\n<p>
\nOverall attendance numbers have been reduced to facilitate
\nsocial distancing
\n</p>
\n<p>
\nPre-registration is required to attend, walk in participants
\nwill not be admitted
\nAttendees must sign a waiver before participating
\n</p>
\n<p>
\nThere will be no reception or speaker meet &amp; greet
\nfollowing the presentation
\n</p>
\n<p>
\nThe 2021 Speaker Series is a programming series, held in
\npartnership with the Council Bluffs Public Library, designed for teens &amp;
\nadults to provide them with an opportunity to learn from and interact with
\nvarious authorities in the fields of conservation &amp; environmental science.
\nPrograms are free &amp; will last approximately 1 hour.&nbsp;
\n&nbsp;
\n</p>
\n<p>
\nFree will donations are gratefully accepted and will support
\ncontinued programming opportunities in Pottawattamie County.
\n&nbsp;
\n</p>
\n<p>
\nPottawattamie Conservation has received a grant award of $
\n1,350.00 from Humanities Iowa, a state-based affiliate of the National
\nEndowment for the Humanities, in support of a project called &ldquo;Speakers Series
\n2020 - 2021&rdquo;.</p>
SUMMARY:My County Parks - Fundamentals of Garden Layers with Benjamin Vogt
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