Speaker: Greg Lowenthal is President of the Long Island Native Plant Initiative (LINPI) and has served on their board for over 3 years. While in cloud technology as a career, he is an avid plant nerd and a native plant enthusiast. Greg lives in East Northport with his wife and two cats, and has over 130 native plant species on his 1/5 acre property.

The Long Island Native Plant Initiative (LINPI) is a non-profit organization who strives to preserve Long Island's biodiversity by cultivating ethically sourced ecotypic plants to ensure commercial availability of native plants for nurseries, communities, and habitat restorations. We fuel the native plant supply by driving demand through volunteer efforts, education, and outreach programs. As part of our education and outreach efforts, we offer retail plant sales to the community at our greenhouse.

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Topic: Greg's session will highlight:
The importance of native plants, Differences between natives, exotics, and invasive species, gardening with native plants in a small setting (small plantings and containers), Native plant purchase locations and recommendations and 
open Questions & Answers session