Meet the Authors:
Lorraine Johnson, Rick Gray and Shaun Booth

Are you on a native plant gardening journey? Cultivating a garden to attract butterflies and bees? Love nature?

This event is for you!

You will be able to purchase books about native plants by these three authors and have your book signed! Already have a copy? Bring it for their autograph.

This will be a fun filled day!
Booth space generously donated by the Komoka Community Market. 

Date: Saturday, June 1, 2024
Location: 1 Tunks Lane and 133 Queen St in Komoka, Ontario, N0L 1R0
Schedule:
10am - 12pm - Book Signing at the Komoka Community Market at 1 Tunks Lane, Komoka
1:30pm - 3pm - Tour of Ethan's Garden at 133 Queen St. (the garden is just past the baseball diamonds)
Admission: Free
Parking: On-site and free

Photo of Lorraine Johnson smiling and sitting on a bench with blooming purple coneflowers behind. She is a white woman with very short silver hair, dangling earrings, round red glasses, a large blue floral pendant necklace, silver upper arm band and loose blue top.
Photo of Lorraine Johnson by Phil Wallis
Green book cover bordered with flowers, butterflies and bees. Text reads: LORRAINE JOHNSON and SHEILA COLLA Illustration by ANN SANDERSON. A GARDEN FOR THE RUSTY-PATCHED BUMBLEBEE. Creating Habitat for Native Pollinators. Ontario and Great Lakes Edition
Lorraine Johnson and Sheila Colla Illustration by Ann Sanderson. A Garden For The Rusty-Patched Bumblebee. Creating Habitat for Native Pollinators. Ontario and Great Lakes Edition

Lorraine Johnson

Lorraine Johnson is the author of more than 10 books on diverse subjects including native plant gardening, urban agriculture, and environmental issues. Her most recent book is A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee: Creating Habitat for Native Pollinators (Ontario edition), co-authored with Sheila Colla. 

Lorraine’s work focuses on biodiversity and habitat gardening in the context of climate change; on advocating for the reform of grass and weeds bylaws in support of biodiversity and ecological health; on municipal policy change to support urban food production (for example, legalizing urban hens), and on land stewardship as relationship-building in the context of reconciliation.

Lorraine (a former president of the North American Native Plant Society) is involved in many community projects and non-profit organizations, and is a frequent speaker/presenter on topics related to land stewardship, urban agriculture and reconciling with the natural world (of which humans are a part, not separate from).

For more info, see her website www.lorrainejohnson.ca.​

Rick Gray

Rick Gray has cultivated a fully native garden with over 300 species of native plants. He has a bachelor's degree in natural resources management, and a master's degree in environmental biology. Rick's garden is regularly showcased on garden tours, and he provides consulting services for native plant garden design. Rick regularly speaks to interested groups about native plant gardening.

He recently published a book with Shaun Booth, The Gardener's Guide to Native Plants of the Southern Great Lakes Region.

For more information, visit Rick's website www.nativeplantgardener.ca.

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Photo of Rick Gray, an elderly white man with white hair and eyebrows, wearing glasses, holding a Canon camera. Background is a riverbank with tall trees.
Rick Gray
Book cover for The Gardener's Guide to Native Plants of the Southern Great Lakes Region by Rick Gray and Shaun Booth
The Gardener's Guide to Native Plants of the Southern Great Lakes Region by Rick Gray and Shaun Booth
Photo of Shaun Booth, a young white man smiling, wearing a white golf shirt.
Shaun Booth

Shaun Booth

Shaun Booth operates an ecological garden design company and native plant nursery called In Our Nature. He uses his knowledge and experience to promote the benefits of native plant gardening through webinars, volunteering and his facebook group "Ontario native plant gardening". His website provides free resources related to natural garden design and native plants.

He recently published a book with Rick Gray, The Gardener's Guide to Native Plants of the Southern Great Lakes Region.
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For more info, see his website www.inournature.ca.​
We are settlers on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak  and Attawandaron Peoples, Treaty 21 territory, currently known as Middlesex Centre, Ontario, Canada. The First Nations people, Innuit and Métis have stewarded these lands and waters since time immemorial. They continue to do so today, facing generations of violent assimilation and erasure. To reconcile our relationship and restore harmony, we acknowledge the harms caused by colonialism and commit to listen to, honour, and integrate Indigenous wisdom, history and values into our pollinator habitat work.

The ​Middlesex Centre Pollinator Team 
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