Every year ANPC hosts a workshop to convene novice to professional botanists on topics related to Alberta’s native plants and their conservation. The location of the workshop moves around the province each year to accommodate our diverse membership, with recent years offering online or hybrid attendance options.
In 2021, ANPC hosted their first virtual workshop with great success. To continue online access and increase accessibility for attendees in Alberta and across the globe, in 2023 ANPC ran their first hybrid workshop with a total of 126 attendees joining in-person and virtually. Select presentation recordings from our virtual workshops, including the popular 2022 Growing Native Plants event, are available to ANPC members on the Member’s Portal.
Typical attendance for the ANPC workshops range from about 75 to 150 people in total. To celebrate the beautiful natural spaces we have in Alberta, the day following the workshop is typically a day in the field. Attendees who are interested in the field trip sign up during the workshop and meet with field trip leaders and experts at a selected natural area near the workshop location. We typically see about 20 people at these workshop field trips.
We hope to see you at one of our future ANPC workshops and workshop field trips. For details and registration for the next upcoming workshop please see our Events Calendar.
Have an idea or want to volunteer to help coordinate a future workshop? Contact Workshop@anpc.ab.ca.
Past ANPC Workshops
| Date | Location | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| April 20, 2024 | Medicine Hat – hybrid | Native Plant Superheroes |
| April 22, 2023 | Edmonton – hybrid | How Plants Inspire Us |
| March 12, 2022 | Online | Growing Native Plants |
| March 20, 2021 | Online | Northern Native Plants and Ecosystems |
| March 16, 2019 | Lethbridge | Every Plant Tells a Story: Documenting Native Plants in Alberta |
| March 17, 2018 | Submerged: A look into Alberta’s semi-aquatic and riparian zones | |
| April 29, 2017 | Ponoka | Biodiversity in Alberta’s Changing Landscape |
| April 30, 2016 | Stettler | Rare Plant Conservation |
| 2015 | Sundre | Exploring the World of Non-vascular Plants |
| 2014 | Drumheller | Native Plants, Ecosystem Webs, and Conservation Areas |
| 2013 | Olds | The Role of Plants in Alberta’s Wetlands |
| 2012 | St. Albert | The Value of Native Plants in Urban Environments |
| 2011 | Canmore | Fragments of the Rocky Mountains |
| 2010 | Rocky Mountain House | Fragments of the Foothills |
| 2009 | Edmonton | Fragments of the Parkland |
| 2008 | Lethbridge | Fragments of the Grasslands |
| 2007 | Calgary | Fragments of the Boreal |
| 2006 | Red Deer | Adopt-a-Plant Alberta: An Exciting Grassroots Rare Plant Conservation Program |
| 2005 | Edmonton | Grow Naturelle – low impact gardening in Alberta |
| 2004 | Edmonton | The Good Steward- Caring for our Natural Areas |
| 2003 | Calgary | In Celebration of Rough Fescue |
| 2002 | Red Deer | Alberta Native Plants: A Heritage worth preserving |
| 2001 | Lethbridge | Exotic biotics: issues of invasive species |
| 2000 | Calgary | Re-creating AB Natural Landscapes |
| 1999 | Grande Prairie | Changing Northern Landscapes |
| 1998 | Edmonton | Rare Plants of Alberta |
| 1997 | Red Deer | Fire & Flood: the Role of Disturbance in Natural Landscapes |
| 1996 | Calgary | Getting to Know Alberta’s Plants |
| 1995 | Rocky Mountain House | Foothills to Glaciers: Managing Diverse Forests |
| 1994 | Edmonton | Native Plants for Reclamation |
| 1993 | Calgary | Bow Corridor Issues |
| 1992 | Lethbridge | Plants of South Alberta: the Rare Ones and the Invaders |
| 1991 | Edmonton | What is North of Latitude 54 |
| 1990 | Calgary | Endangered Plant Spaces |
| 1989 | Olds | Plant Protection |
| 1988 | Edmonton | Workshop on Rare Plants in Alberta |