Building Soil Through Biodiversity: Farmscape Models for Resilience

This presentation addresses some limitations of conventional planning, as well as the cost-prohibitive nature of landscape architecture, by offering a series of scalable, replicable design models for biodiversity and climate resilience that anyone can implement on a wide range of landscapes. Explore the nexus between below- and above-ground biodiversity and learn practical methods for collaborating with scientists on research and data collection, interpreting science, and putting it into practice on a regional scale. Examine:

• How designed native ecosystems offer solutions to both the biodiversity and climate crises;

• A process of identifying community partners for collaborative planning, design, outreach and implementation; and

• How planners worked with farmers and urban gardeners to build consensus and convert their landscapes to habitat.

Presenters offer two seasons of data on soil health and plant-pollinator networks and explain their methods for identifying over 150 native pollinator species at risk of local extinction and the plants that support them. They showcase a series of scalable, replicable designs that support these species. Review a wide range of community engagement strategies, along with plans for scaling implementation and outreach two to five years hence.
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