ENC and the California Native Horticultural Foundation are partnering to expand native plant education at Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary.
Planting the Seeds for Something Special
The Environmental Nature Center is excited to announce a new partnership with the California Native Horticultural Foundation (CNHF), creating new opportunities for education, conservation, and community engagement centered around California native plants.
Through this collaboration, CNHF will establish its first home at ENC Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary in Modjeska Canyon, where the two organizations will work together to develop educational programs, volunteer opportunities, professional development, workforce development initiatives, and other experiences that inspire people to connect with California’s remarkable native landscapes.
The partnership brings together two organizations whose missions naturally complement one another. For more than five decades, the Environmental Nature Center has provided transformative experiences through connection with nature. CNHF shares that commitment by fostering transformative connections between people, place, and nature through California native horticulture.
One of the most exciting aspects of the partnership is the future development of a teaching nursery at Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary.
Rather than serving as a traditional retail nursery, this teaching nursery will become the educational heart of the collaboration. Through scheduled workshops, demonstrations, volunteer projects, professional development programs, and workforce development opportunities, participants will gain hands-on experience learning how California native plants are propagated, grown, and used to create resilient, beautiful landscapes.
Visitors to Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary will begin to see this collaboration take shape over the coming months as nursery infrastructure is established and new educational opportunities are introduced.
“This partnership represents an exciting opportunity to expand the ways we connect people with nature,” said Bo Glover, President & CEO of the Environmental Nature Center. “By combining ENC’s long history of environmental education with CNHF’s expertise in native horticulture, we’ll create new experiences that inspire conservation while helping people better understand California’s remarkable native landscapes. We’re excited to see this collaboration grow and the many ways it will benefit our community in the years ahead.”
Mike Evans, Founder and President of the California Native Horticultural Foundation, sees the partnership as an opportunity to inspire even more people to embrace California’s native flora.
“This partnership is about much more than sharing space,” Evans said. “We’re bringing together two organizations that believe education is the key to helping people reconnect with California’s native landscapes. ENC Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary provides an extraordinary setting where we can teach, inspire, and build a community around native horticulture.”
This announcement marks only the beginning of what we hope will become a long and rewarding collaboration. In the coming months we’ll be sharing updates as the partnership grows, introducing new educational programs, volunteer opportunities, workshops, and community events.
We look forward to welcoming you as this exciting new chapter unfolds.