Love Your Alley w/ Rebecca Ness & Kevin Doenges

Carolyn Harding w/ Rebecca Ness and Kevin Doenges - Love Your Alley! "Love Your Alley is about collaboration, sustainability, creativity and beauty. It is transforming our underutilized alleys into extended living space for everyone to enjoy, while creating our own Homegrown National Park in Bexley with native plants that support our pollinators and biodiversity. These events and speakers are scheduled throughout the month of May to help participants learn about planting native plants, enhancing gardens for pollinators, and much more! Registration is required and ends 3 hours prior to the start of the event. Rebecca Ness is the Vice Chair for Green Bexley. She’s spearheading Love Your Alley, a revitalized and expanded Bexley initiative. Love Your Alley is aimed at transforming our underutilized alleys into extended living space filled with native plants and artwork for everyone to enjoy. She also organizes kids’ green boot camps to help children learn about and appreciate the natural world. She facilitates the Green Bexley Parent’s Facebook Group. Rebecca is an Acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist and recognizes the strong correlation between the planet’s health and human health. She moved to Bexley from San Francisco mid-2017 with her husband, two young boys and small dog. Kevin Doenges is an amateur naturalist with a passion for gardening with Ohio native plants and studying insects. He is an active member of the South Eastmoor Civic Association located on Columbus's mideast side. While working with this association, he has assisted with organizing plant swaps and helping to create and maintain a native plant garden in Brownlee Park. Using the pollinator garden, Kevin and other volunteers plan to host small classes to educate citizens of the importance of native plants. See more information on the Love Your Alley Program & Register Here: https://bexleyoh.myrec.com/info/activities/program_details.aspx?ProgramID=29954&AdminPreview=1 https://bexley.org/loveyouralley/?fbclid=IwAR2oBnU4v68xe67e_GRjAX_XSW6oqHwj