KECP: Stewardship begins at home - Native plants and backyard ponds
In February, KEC Presents begins a "Stewardship begins at home" series, offering actionable ways to support a healthy ecosystem in your own backyard.
Join us at the Village Green on February 15 as speakers Dana Bressette, Plant Production Manager at Woodbrook Native Plant Nursery, and Jo Stormer, owner of Nobody Nursery, share their extensive knowledge about native plants, benefits of native plants to local ecosystems, and how to incorporate them into your home landscape. The presentation will also feature information about backyard ponds, presented by KEC's resident frogman, Tom Doty.
Details:
Date: Sunday, February 15 2026
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Where: The Village Green - 26159 Dulay Rd Ne | Kingston
Refreshments and kids crafts will be available. Bring a favorite treat to share, and consider bringing a food donation for Fishline and ShareNet (List of most needed items)
Additional information about our speakers:
Dana Bressette holds a bachelor of science degree in Ornamental Horticulture from Washington State University and a master of science degree in Urban Horticulture from the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture. She is the Plant Production Manager and Sales Consultant at Woodbrook Native Plant Nursery in Gig Harbor.
Jo Stormer owns Nobody Nursery ("Nobody grows that"), a small native plant nursery building biodiversity by specializing in species that are otherwise commercially-unavailable, on spuyalÉ™pabš (Puyallup) land in Des Moines, WA. His passion for growing native, often hard (impossible?) to find native plants began during a rough patch of his life, during which, he spent time alone on wild land and began foraging. Working as a gardener specializing in native plants, he grew increasingly frustrated with the lack of native biodiversity available to purchase, so he began to grow these special plants - because nobody else is!
Tom Doty is a member of the KEC Board and holds a B.S. degree in biology (cum laude) from Kent State University followed by a Ph.D. in biological sciences from the University of Rhode Island. Throughout his career, his studies and professional work focused on amphibian populations, marine mammals, and on the role of habitat specifically as it relates to these sensitive creatures.
