Author Event: Sunday, June 18, 2023 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Sunday, June 18, 2023 from 11am to 2pm when author Frédérique Lavoipierre will be signing copoies of Garden Allies. 

From the back cover:

The birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects that inhabit our yards are overwhelmingly on our side -- pollinating our flowers and vegetables, and keeping pests in check. 

In Garden Allies, biologist and lifelong garden educator Frédérique Lavoipierre shares fascinating portraits of these beneficial creatures.  You’ll learn how to keep the garden’s ecology in dynamic balance, how to welcome them into your yhard, and how they form a harmonious whole with the plants and soil in your garden -- even with you.

Frédérique Lavoipierre was the director of education at the Santa Barbara Botanic

Garden, where she shared her enthusiasm for native plants and insects. Prior to

working at the Garden, she was the founding director of the Sustainable Landscape

Professional Certificate Program at Sonoma State University, where she also revived

the Garden Classroom program, and established an entomology outreach

program. Frédérique holds a M.Sc. in biology, with an emphasis on ecological

principles of sustainable landscapes. Her research focused on plant/insect

interactions. Prior to her graduate work, she founded and operated an organic

nursery specializing in heirloom vegetables and culinary herbs from around the

world. She currently lectures, teaches, and works as a consultant. She serves on the

editorial advisory group for the American Public Gardens Association magazine,

Public Gardens, and is on the content committee for the Pacific Horticulture

Society. Frédérique authored a ten-year long series, Garden Allies, for Pacific

Horticulture Magazine, and continues her contributions to the Society.