

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: FREE SPEAKER SERIES: Planting with Purpose, Native Plants
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 18 Apr, 2026 at 09:30 am (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Zach Callaway, who owns KC Native Landscapes, a native plant-based landscaping business serving the K.C. metro area, plans to talk about how native plants can be problem solvers in the landscape. 

His program is titled “Planting with Purpose: An Intentional Approach to Plant Selection.” The general theme is that we pick our garden plants for multiple reasons (aesthetics, site conditions, functional purpose, maintainability, and ecological role), and that the right native plant can serve all of these purposes. 

Expect to see photos of examples from projects. The heavy focus will be on the ecological and maintainability benefits, and ways to use native plants in the place of common cultivars and exotic varieties.

Callaway has practical experience and advice-gathering from the region’s local grower community. When he was the program manager at After the Harvest, a local gleaning nonprofit, he visited dozens of local farms and community gardens. When helping to prep a site, harvest, or do winter clean up with these growers, it was a crash-course in all of the different techniques and approaches you can take in each part of the growing season.

Come early for coffee, treats and socializing!
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/merriam/free-speaker-series-planting-with-purpose-native-plants/200029442201408
- **Event Categories**: workshops
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 396

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029442201408?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=merriam-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Merriam
- **state**: KS
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Merriam Community Center
- **lat**: 39.01901
- **long**: -94.68872
- **full address**: Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St,Merriam, Kansas, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Gardeners Connect (https://allevents.in/org/gardeners-connect/13436293)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 18 Apr, 2026 at 09:30 am (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Merriam Community Center, 6040 Slater St,Merriam, Kansas, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Gardeners Connect
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** workshops
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about FREE SPEAKER SERIES: Planting with Purpose, Native Plants ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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