Penn State Extension along with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and DCNR Bureau of Forestry are sponsoring the Green in Your Backyard Woods workshop to be held in Lancaster on February 9.

Participants will learn essential information about the region’s vegetation and how to implement simple stewardship practices to enhance or establish vegetation on your land.

Topics will include: tree & shrub selection and care, reading forested landscape, invasive plant control strategies, wildflowers/herbs and wild mushrooms of PA’s woods, establishing edge habitat, riparian buffers, and more.

The workshop will be held at the Farm & Home Center, 1383 Arcadia Road, Lancaster from 8:30 to 4:00.  The cost is $30 per person or $50 for two people from the same household.

For more information, download the workshop flyer or contact Craig Highfield, Alliance for the Chesapeake, 410-267-5723 or email: chighfield@chesapeakebay.net or Julianne Schieffer, Penn State Extension, 610-489-4315 or email: jxs51@psu.edu.

1/14/2013