Cheyenne Habitat Hero Workshop Feb. 7
Barb Gorges
February 7 – Cheyenne Habitat Hero Workshop – registration open
Registration is open for the 12th annual Cheyenne Habitat Hero Workshop to be held Feb. 7, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Pathfinder Building, Laramie County Community College, 1400 E. College Dr. The $25 registration fee includes lunch. The registration website, https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/cheyenne50th/2026-habitat-hero-workshop-cheyenne, has the complete schedule and descriptions of talks, speakers and hands on activities. There is a limit of 100 registrants. Anyone interested in gardening for wildlife is welcome.
For more information about Habitat Hero and the Cheyenne – High Plains Audubon Society, please visit https://cheyenneaudubon.org/ or contact Mark Gorges, mgo...@juno.com.
The workshop theme this year is from the book, “Shrouded in Light: Naturalistic Planting Inspired by Wild Shrublands,” by keynote speakers Kevin Philip Williams (designer of SummerHome Garden in Denver) and Michael Guidi, both of the Denver Botanic Gardens.
Also on the agenda is Stephen Hornbeck, nursery manager at High Plains Environmental Center in Loveland, Colorado, on “Gardener’s Ecology: Building Your Own Biological Community,” explaining what plants to plant where.
After lunch, Isaiah Smith, from the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, will lead a garden design exercise for all participants. Afterward, there will be four breakout sessions:
--Individual help with garden design for participants bringing sketches of their potential and/or current yard (Isaiah Smith and associates),
--Winter sowing and transplanting winter sown seedlings (Michelle Bohanan, Laramie County Master Gardener),
--An update on the larger Habitat Hero movement (Amanda Martinez, Audubon Rockies) and
--Cheyenne’s plans for improving pollinator habitat at Lions Park (Vicki Herren, Cheyenne Audubon).
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