These inspirational courses offer valuable information on designing your landscape to benefit wildlife, increase biodiversity, and create beautiful gardens. Each lesson was so valuable in the quest to turn my small piece of nature into a biodiverse, four season, sustainable wildlife haven." -- Stacey |
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Pollinator Gardening With Native Plants
$29 Flowers & grasses from spring to fall. (sample: learn about monarchs) In this class you'll discover over 80 forbs, grasses, and sedges that support adult and larval insects from pollinators to beneficial bugs, spring to fall. (60 minutes) |
Woody Natives With Year-Round Value
$29 Trees & shrubs for wildlife & beauty. Over 50 shrubs and trees that provide essential wildlife services in multiple seasons, all while looking beautiful to the human eye. (50 minutes) |
Designing A Winter Garden
$29 Plants & strategies for seasonal delight. We'll explore dozens of perennial flowers and grasses with stunning fall color and ornamental seed heads. Design strategies are also highlighted. (60 minutes) |
Designing For Wildlife & Sustainability
$29 How to support biodiversity while helping the environment. Design strategies to support wildlife while sequestering carbon, cleaning air and water, and improving the soil. We'll explore what specific groups of wildlife need, low-management landscape options, and glance at how plants can reduce your energy use. (60 minutes) |
Starting Your Native Plant Garden
$29 Creating a low-maintenance wildlife garden from A-Z. An incredible diversity of resources to help you research and choose native plants for your landscape, how to prep the area, how to appeal to neighbors and wildlife, then a step by step plan designing a sustainable garden bed. (65 minutes) |
All 5 Garden Classes
$119 Get the entire package for less. Pollinator Gardening With Native Plants Woody Natives With Year-Round Value Designing A Winter Garden Designing For Wildlife And The Environment Starting Your Native Plant Garden |
Genealogy & Memoir Writing
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All in the Family
$199 Research & write your family history. This course comes with 10, thirty-minute video lectures full of motivation and insight to help you explore your personal story -- from genealogy / research strategies to the craft of evocative story telling. Each lesson ends with a suggested writing exercise to help you focus, as well as readings that serve as examples to emulate. By the end of this class you will have completed the research and writing for a 20-30 page essay memoir -- with the opportunity for personalized critiques and chat sessions with Benjamin (for an added fee). Take advantage of working with someone who's taught 50 college English courses and is an award-winning professor and author with over 300 publications. "I don't know how you worked your magic, but I have a new vision of my project, a couple of scenes, and a pretty solid narrative arc to get me going.... I got exactly what I needed from the homework assignments." |
All classes are self-paced and never end -- you have unlimited access for as long as they remain online (Monarch Gardens / Benjamin Vogt reserves the right to take down any class at any time without prior notice). PDFs are downloadable and free for you to use, but please refer to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy at teachable.com before purchasing so you know what you can and can't do with class material (for example: you can't resell or modify any class material, or present it to anyone else). Classes are non-refundable and all sales are final. Prices include applicable taxes and processing fees. If you have technical issues we ask you to first contact teachable.com (our host service), and then if they can't resolve the issue, please contact us via email and we'll try our best to help you out. All class material is copyright © 2018 Benjamin Vogt.
