The Beauty in Biodiversity: Gardening with Pacific Northwest Native Plants

Kristin Currin speaks about the importance of incorporating Pacific Northwest native plants into your garden and landscaping to help the birds, bees, and local ecosystem as a whole. Learn about our amazing local flora, the significance of planting and conserving native plants, the many benefits of native plant gardening, and how we can all support the diversity of life that gives the natural world its beauty and its function.

Kristin Currin and Andrew Merritt, authors of The Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer, are the co-founders of Humble Roots Nursery, a native plant nursery in the Columbia River Gorge recognized for its efforts in sustainability and promoting native plants. While ethically propagating many important species, their passion for plants has involved them with innumerable native plant endeavors including pollinator and conservation plantings of all shapes and sizes, school gardens, backyard habitats, restoration projects, and rare plant conservation.