Registration open for 2017 Western

The educational event will take place in Kansas City, Missouri for its 127th year.

Registration is now open at wnla.org for the 2017 Western, being held Jan. 19-20 in Kansas City, Missouri.  

The 2017 Western will feature:
• Wednesday evening reception (Jan. 18) celebrating Kids + Nature with quick-fire presentations by Megan Sperry, horticulture therapist at Ozanam; Denise Scribner and students from Eisenhower High School; Susan Yoder, executive director for Seed Your Future; and Claudia West, author of 'Planting in a Post-Wild World', plus an introduction to the new MOGIA organization in Missouri. – Thanks to Western Partners Ball Horticultural Company, Forrest Keeling Nursery, Greenleaf Nursery Company, Home Nursery and Honey Creek Nursery.
• Keynote address on 'Planting in a Post-Wild World' with Claudia West – Thanks to Forrest Keeling Nursery, Taylor Creek Restoration Nurseries & Bohn’s Farm and Greenhouses.
• Ticketed, 4-hour design workshop on designing resilient and stunningly beautiful plant communities.
• Learning centers by Ball Horticultural Company, Greenleaf Nursery Company, KAT Wholesale Outdoor, Loma Vista Nursery, PlantRight / Schwope Brothers Tree Farms and Stockman Stoneworks.
• Roundtable discussions on drones, trends in landscape design, caring for native plants, water management in the landscape, seed your future, creating a small business, engineering problems, hiring, social impact business models, fruits and nuts in the Midwest and more.
• Horticulture in 2027 panel discussion.
• What’s new in 2017 new plant panel discussion.
• Fashion show of new plants – thanks to American Nurseryman.
• Western pub networking.
• Western University – thanks to KAT Wholesale Outdoor.
• GrowNative! education on native plants of the Midwest, super sedges: purposeful natives for the landscape, native edibles and the food web.
• Education in Spanish sessions, including one on caring for native plants.
• Emerging leaders facilitated conversation on managing staff – thanks to Ball Seed.
• Student advisory committee meeting.

Registration is $50 per person (WNLA members). You can register online at wnla.org or print and mail a registration form. Call 888-233-1876 or email info@wnla.org if you want a form sent to you. More information can be found at wnla.org.
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