Save the Date – Monday June 27, 7 – 8:30pm
Bringing Nature Home
An evening with Doug Tallamy
Award winning author & ecologist
At the Ogunquit Playhouse at 10 Main Street (Route 1) in Ogunquit.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Unreserved seating
Admission is free. A $5 donation is suggested.
Rebuilding Nature’s
Relationships at Home
Specialized relationships between
animals and plants are the norm
in nature rather than the
exception. It is specialized
relationships that provide our
birds with insects and berries,
that disperse our bloodroot seeds,
that pollinate our goldenrod, and
so on.
Plants that evolved in concert
with local animals provide for
their needs better than plants that
evolved elsewhere. Tallamy will
explain why this is so, why
specialized food relationships determine the stability and
complexity of the local food webs that support animal diversity,
why it is important to restore life to our residential properties, and
what we can do to make our landscapes living ecosystems once
again.
About the Presenter
Doug Tallamy is a professor in the Department of Entomology and
Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has
authored 84 research publications and has taught Insect
Taxonomy, Behavioral Ecology, Humans and Nature, Insect
Ecology, and other courses for 34 years. Chief among his research
goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with
plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal
communities. His book Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants
Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens was published by Timber Press in
2007 and was awarded the 2008 Silver Medal by the Garden
Writers' Association. The Living Landscape, co-authored with Rick
Darke, was published in 2014. Among his awards are the Garden
Club of America Margaret Douglas Medal for Conservation and the
Tom Dodd, Jr. Award of Excellence.
Reviews of Bringing Nature Home
"Tallamy's book is a call to arms. There is not much ordinary
citizens can do to create large new preserves. But we can make
better use of the small green spaces we have around our houses.
While the situation in the United States is quite serious, Tallamy
offers options that anyone with a garden, even a postage-stampsized one like mine, can do to help." — St. Petersburg Times
"Tallamy makes such a compelling case for the importance of
insects to birds that I’ve completely changed the way I
garden. From now on, insect attractors are my first choices." —
Birding Business
“An essential guide for anyone interested in increasing biodiversity
in the garden.” — American Gardener
“Reading this book will give you a new appreciation of the natural
world – and how much wild creatures need gardens that mimic the
disappearing wild.” — The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Primarily, the wild creatures we enjoy and would like to have in
our lives will not be here in the future if we take away their food
and the places they live.
— Doug Tallamy
Sponsored by Ogunquit Marginal Way Committee, Great Works
Regional Land Trust, Marginal Way Preservation Fund, Mt.
Agamenticus to the Sea Conservation Initiative, Ogunquit
Conservation Commission, Ogunquit Playhouse, UMaine Extension
Master Gardener Volunteers, Wells Reserve at Laudholm, York
County Audubon, and York Land Trust