Discover how to transform your outdoor space into a thriving haven for local wildlife and resilient native plants in this online interactive one-hour workshop. Please note this is an online, Zoom event.
Backyard Habitat Chat invites residents to explore practical, sustainable ways to attract birds, pollinators, and beneficial insects while enhancing the ecological health of their own yards. Participants will learn how to select native species, design wildlife-friendly gardens, and support biodiversity in the face of climate change and other environmental stressors. Whether you have a small balcony, a suburban yard, or several acres, this session will offer actionable tips and local resources to help you create a beautiful, climate-smart habitat that supports both people and nature.
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About our Presenter:
Breeka Li (bree-kah lie) is a certified Professional Wetland Scientist and Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner (in Training). She holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Natural Resources with a minor in Sustainability, and graduate coursework from OSU and SNHU. She is currently working on a graduate certificate in the Master Melittology Program through OSU and her arborist certification through the ISA.
Breeka Li has conducted numerous wetland delineations, restorations, and other environmental studies. One of her fondest memories is collaring and tagging black bears in northern Minnesota and sharing a bear hug with a yearling cub during her undergraduate coursework. Breeka Li has also worked with gray wolves, little brown bats, woodpeckers/emerald ash borers, and box turtles. Despite holding the designation of “Professional Wetland Scientist”, Breeka Li considers herself a general ecologist. She prefers to look at landscapes, their connections, and their intricacies, noting the centralized importance of water and wetland ecosystems to landscape inhabitants (i.e., “Water is Life”).
Breeka Li strives to create a culture of land stewardship and encourages everyone to learn about ecology, ecological restoration, and the reciprocal relationship one can have with the planet. When Breeka Li is not working, she is either volunteering or working on her permaculture farm with her family, pet pig, cat, and chickens. Breeka Li utilizes her ecological knowledge to raise native solitary bees, grow organic (not certified) produce and herbal medicine while utilizing native companion plants, and restoring portions of her farm to pre-disturbance conditions. If Breeka Li were to have a middle name it would be “sustainable subsistence”.
Breeka Li also has experience in wildland firefighting, Phase I/Phase II ESAs, and has put in significant hours for continuing education through the MN Wetland Professionals Association, NAWM, Institute for Wetland & Environmental Education & Research, Southern New Hampshire University, Ecological Research Institute, and University of Minnesota.
Please register below and take the first step toward making your property part of a larger network of healthy, connected ecosystems. The Zoom information will be emailed to you upon registering.
