# Event Details

- **Event Name**: NPSG Talk: Banning the Sale of Invasives & Advocating for Garry Oak Ecosystems with Hunter Jarratt
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 16 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 16 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 pm (-07:00)
- **Event Description**: 🌿 Native Plant Study Group Presents 🌿
Banning the Sale of Invasives & Advocating for Garry Oak Ecosystems with Hunter Jarratt
🗓 Thursday, April 16 2026
🕖 7:00 PM
📍 Swan Lake Nature House and Online 
Online Viewing on Zoom Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/uZANoP0hS462esHmVVDGYw

Talk Topic:
Join the Native Plant Study Group to learn from Hunter Jarratt about the successful efforts to ban the sale of invasive species in the City of Nanaimo. Expanding on the theme of environmental protection, we will then discuss why Nanaimo and the surrounding communities have a disproportionately large responsibility in protecting Garry Oak ecosystem, highlighting several local areas of critical importance under threat.

Hunter Jarratt is a local conservationist who graduated from the Bachelor of Natural Resource Protection Program at Vancouver Island University in 2023, and is currently a student in the Restoration of Natural Systems Certificate Program at the University of Victoria. In recent years, he has worked with a number of local environmental organizations in both workplace and volunteer capacities, and now owns an ecological restoration consulting business. He is known as the "Invasive Species Guy" on social media where he creates educational content focusing on invasive species management, particularly in Garry Oak and associated ecosystems. Hunter was the recipient of the Invasive Species Council of British Columbia's 2025 Together in Action Rising Star Award, and helped lead the advocacy efforts last year that resulted in the City of Nanaimo being officially tasked with drafting a bylaw banning the sale of invasive species.

🌱 By donation admission (free for members)
🌱 All are welcome
🌱 Bring your questions and curiosity!

Location: 
3873 Swan Lake Road at the Nature House, unceded Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territory.

What to expect:
A short welcome and intro, then sit down talk by speaker for about an hour, then after tea and treats, and chatting. Followed by a native plant raffle! 

6:30-7:00: Volunteer setup inside and socializing (everyone welcome to help for 3 free raffle tickets!)
7:00-7:15 Introductions and Welcome
7:15-8:15 Presentation by Speaker, Q&A 
8:15-8:30 Treats and Tea break
8:30-8:45 Famous Native Plant Raffle!!
8:45-9:00 Clean up together

What to bring:
🍵A mug for herbal tea or decaf coffee
🔆A headlamp or flashlight
💰🍪Some small change for cookies, tea, or raffle tickets
🌿Native plants or native seeds if you have extra to share

No RSVP needed. More info at www.npsg.ca

The Native Plant Study Group respectfully acknowledges that we gather on the unceded territory of the Lekwungen Peoples, with W̱SÁNEĆ connections. We are a garden group with a strong interest in gardening with native plants for their aesthetic, intrinsic, and conservation values. We gratefully recognize the longstanding stewards of these plants and ecosystems, as well as their cultural significance.

We encourage a safe and respectful space for everyone to learn along with us in our individual and collective pathways of decolonization.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/victoria/npsg-talk-banning-the-sale-of-invasives-and-advocating-for-garry-oak-ecosystems-with-hunter-jarratt/200029930749816
- **Event Categories**: Nonprofit, Meetups
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Victoria
- **state**: BC
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary Society
- **lat**: 48.46522
- **long**: -123.37397
- **full address**: Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary Society, 3873 Swan Lake Rd, Saanich, BC V8X 3W1, Canada, Victoria

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is NPSG Talk: Banning the Sale of Invasives & Advocating for Garry Oak Ecosystems with Hunter Jarratt being held?
  - **A:** NPSG Talk: Banning the Sale of Invasives & Advocating for Garry Oak Ecosystems with Hunter Jarratt takes place on Thu, 16 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 16 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary Society, 3873 Swan Lake Rd, Saanich, BC V8X 3W1, Canada, Victoria.
- **Q**: Who is organizing NPSG Talk: Banning the Sale of Invasives & Advocating for Garry Oak Ecosystems with Hunter Jarratt?
  - **A:** NPSG Talk: Banning the Sale of Invasives & Advocating for Garry Oak Ecosystems with Hunter Jarratt is organized by Native Plant Study Group.

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