Learn how small shifts in how we care for trees, soil, and land can restore life, reduce effort, and create healthier suburban and urban landscapes in this free webinar with Basil Camu.
Event Details
Title: From Wasteland to Wonder – Easy Ways We Can Help Heal Earth in the Suburban and Urban Landscape
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Time: 7 p.m. ET | 6 p.m. CT | 5 p.m. MT | 4 p.m. PT
Location: YouTube Live. Link provided with registration
Recording: This webinar will be recorded and shared with registrants after the live premiere
Hosted by Ruth Bowell of the Wild Ones Dayton Area Chapter.
About the Webinar
Much of the suburban and urban landscape is managed in ways that quietly undermine soil health, water systems, biodiversity, and long term resilience. Forests are cleared, grasslands are replaced with lawns, soil is stripped of life, and chemicals are used to maintain systems that require constant effort but offer little return.
In this Wild Ones National Webinar, Basil Camu shares a hopeful and practical alternative. Drawing on two decades of hands on experience and real world work through Leaf & Limb, Basil shows how working with natural systems instead of against them can help heal land, reduce maintenance, and create healthier, more resilient landscapes.
This presentation begins with a clear explanation of how photosynthesis and soil formation work together to regulate water, carbon, and life on land, and how common landscaping practices disrupt these systems. From there, Basil walks through practical strategies that anyone can implement, starting with simple actions and moving toward more transformative approaches.
You will learn about:
- Easy ways to support soil health, water infiltration, and biodiversity
- Why saving mature trees and planting saplings has outsized impact
- How leaving leaves and skipping chemicals rebuilds living soil
- Why lawns fail and how native meadows succeed
- What pocket forests and thickets are and how they reduce maintenance
- How community based seed collection and growing models can scale impact
All practices shared are grounded in firsthand field experience and designed to save time, reduce costs, and restore life to the places we already live, work, and gather.
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About the Presenter
Basil Camu is a master arborist, author of From Wasteland to Wonder, and co founder of Leaf & Limb, a regenerative tree and land care company based in North Carolina. His work challenges conventional suburban and urban landscape management by centering soil health, trees, and long lived systems that work with natural processes.
Basil is also the founder of Project Pando, a nonprofit dedicated to reconnecting people with trees through native seed collection, growing, and free distribution for ecological restoration projects. His work has been featured in national outlets including the New York Times, and he regularly speaks to garden clubs, nonprofits, municipalities, and conservation groups across the country.
