There are lots of ways to garden without sacrificing all of your hard work to marauding deer. We will explore Cornell research-proven methods in three categories: Barriers, Repellents and Alternative Landscape Choices, providing ideas for best-odds deer-resistant landscape plants. Recordings will be available for registered participants.

Chris Ferrero is a gardening speaker, writer and consultant. She is a Cornell Master Gardener from Dutchess County, NY, where in addition to speaking and teaching classes, she has led demonstration garden renovations, organized regional events, and served on teams as a perennials specialist known for particular expertise in shade gardening, flowering shrubs, pollinator-approved planting designs, and native plants as alternatives to invasives.