

Sat, Mar 08
|Columbus Botanical Garden
Naturalist Symposium
Please join us for this year's Naturalist Symposium | Seeds of Change: Planting the Future with Gardening, Regenerative Agriculture, and Sustainable Living Keynote Speaker: Jenni Harris with White Oak Pastures!
Time & Location
Mar 08, 2025, 8:45 AM – 3:30 PM
Columbus Botanical Garden, 3603 Weems Rd, Columbus, GA 31909, USA
About the event
2025 Columbus Botanical Garden Naturalist Symposium - March 8th and 9th
Seeds of Change: Planting the Future with Gardening, Regenerative Agriculture, and Sustainable Living
March 8th, 2025 - Speaker Day 8:45am - 3:30pmÂ
At the Columbus Botanical Garden, our mission is to celebrate the beauty, inspiration, and wonder of the natural world while educating current and future stewards of its care. Our annual Naturalist Symposium intends to accomplish this by instilling a sense of curiosity and igniting a love of the natural world in our surrounding community. This year's event will focus on sustainable living and farming and gardening practices that improve soil health, water quality, biodiversity and support wildlife.Â
Join us at the Columbus Botanical Garden for our first day of the naturalist symposium to learn about regenerative agriculture, gardening, and sustainable solutions that you can implement whether you own acres of land, or are living in the middle of a neighborhood here in Columbus. We are excited to be hosting a great lineup of speakers educating our audience on our local food systems, gardening and how we can implement some of these practices more sustainably in our daily lives. Our speaker day will be capped with a keynote presentation by Jenni Harris of White Oak Pastures, a zero-waste, radically traditional regenerative farm in southwest Georgia.
We will also be featuring breakout sessions on topic from gardening to sustainable living.
Check out our Family Market & Kids' Day event, happening the day after symposium.
Ticket Prices
Early Bird: Until February 14th
Member: $40
Non - Member: $50
Student: $30
Regular tickets: February 15th - March 3rd
Member: $50
Non - Member: $60
Student: $30
Breakout session registration will open soon. An email will be sent out when they are open!
Day of Schedule
8:15 - 8:45 Check in with donuts and coffee
8:45 - 9:00 Opening remarksÂ
9:00-10:00 Plenary - What is Sustainability? w/ Daniel Stallings, Perch and PastureÂ
10:15 - 11:15 Breakout session 1Â (Guests choose 1)
A) Chaos Gardening: Tips, tricks and inspiration for growing food when you have little experience, space and time. Led by Callie owner of The Suburban Homesteader
B) Gardening is hard: Tips and tricks for growing food for yourself. Led by Chris Jackson, co-owner of Jenny Jack Farm
11:15 - 12:15 Lunch Break - What resources are available? w/ Erycka Brock, UGA Extension Office
12:20 - 1:20 Breakout session 2 (guests choose 1)
C) The Power of Every Drop: Sustainable Water Practices for the Home led by Caleb Cole from Columbus Water Works
D) Simple Shifts: Every day swaps to leading a lower waste life on a budget led by Darci Burdett
1:30 - 2:00 Mini session Compost is Key w/ Devon Moree, Community Advocate
2:10 - 3:30 Keynote White Oak Pastures w/ Jenni Harris
Tickets
- Sale ends: Feb 14, 11:50 PM
Early Bird Member
$40.00+$1.00 service fee - Sale ends: Feb 14, 11:50 PM
Early Bird Non-Member
$50.00+$1.25 service fee Student
$30.00+$0.75 service fee
Total
$0.00