Native Tree Symposium Part II: Healthy Yards Panel on April 14, 2024

Co-sponsored by the City of Rye Sustainability Committee and Larchmont-Mamaroneck Pollinator Pathway. We are grateful to Con Edison for funding of this program. Afternoon Panelists:
Jeff Cordulack is a Connecticut native whose career has focused on wildlife conservation, watershed protection, organic growing, and other sustainability topics. Currently, Jeff owns and manages Organic Ways & Means LLC (www.organicways.org), one of the first all-electric and 100% organic landscaping companies in the Northeast US. Started in 2019, OWM has converted hundreds of acres to zero-emission mowing and pollinator-friendly yard care.
Kim Eierman is the Founder of EcoBeneficial LLC. She is an ecological landscape designer and environmental horticulturist specializing in native plants. Based in New York, Kim teaches at the New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The Native Plant Center and Massachusetts Horticultural Society.Kim is an active speaker nationwide on many ecological landscape topics, presenting for industry conferences, sustainability events, corporate events, environmental organizations, and other groups interested in environmental improvements. Kim also provides horticultural consulting and ecological landscape design to residential, municipal and commercial clients, including landscape architects and engineers. In addition to being a Certified Horticulturist through the American Society for Horticultural Science, Kim is an Accredited Organic Landcare Professional, a Steering Committee member of The Native Plant Center, and a member of The Ecological Landscape Alliance and Garden Communicators International. Kim Eierman (pronounced like “Fireman”) is the author of the book, The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening.
Filippine Hoogland - Healthy Yards Westchester “I was born in the Netherlands to a family of bulb farmers and avid gardeners. In the seventies, concerns were raised about the harmful chemicals used in the bulb industry, and I remember vividly the transition from our delight in flowers to concern and fear. In response to these problems, my uncle Rob spearheaded ‘The Wave,’ a movement that challenged conventional gardening norms. Renowned figures like Piet Oudolf were also part of this movement. Arriving in the US, I recognized the same issues: the celebration of a particular conventional lawn-scape, while neglecting the harm it causes. It has been my mission ever since to raise awareness about the harmful practices of conventional landscaping and promote more sustainable alternatives. I have collaborated with many others to establish new initiatives and organizations, and to change policy at both local and state levels.”
Peter Linderoth is the Director of Water Quality working out of Save the Sound’s Larchmont office. He has a B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of California Santa Barbara and a M.S. in Environmental Science and Management from Sacred Heart University. Peter worked in the Education and Science Departments at the Bruce Museum prior to joining the team at Save the Sound. He is a member of the Town of Greenwich Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency in addition to serving on the Long Island Sound Study Water Quality Monitoring Workgroup, Interstate Environmental Commission Technical Advisory Committee, and as Membership Director of the Old Greenwich Yacht Club. Peter spends as much of his free time as possible with friends and family on, in, and around Long Island Sound.
Mark Magel is an experienced gardener. He designed the Butterfly Garden at The Rockefeller University, the Bird and Butterfly garden for the Bedford Audubon Society and oversees the native gardens at the Pruyn Sanctuary for the Saw Mill River Audubon where he is a board member. He has also designed and installed garden landscapes for several notable museums, universities, hospitals, city parks, and institutions, as well as prestigious residential addresses and major landmark buildings throughout Manhattan and also major estates and residences in the mid-Atlantic region.