It’s a Jungle Out There: Life & Death in the Wildlife Garden with Pat Sutton

Stockton University, Room F-111

Pat and Clay Sutton have witnessed some amazing natural history happenings in their 47-year-old  wildlife garden, some heart-warming and some heart-stopping.  Be prepared for an eye-opening view into happenings in the natural world that can be witnessed up close only when you’ve created a landscape where wildlife feel at home – and you take a seat to watch.  Among other themes Pat explores in this presentation: many of the traditional backyard interventions we sweat over can be abandoned when we learn to let Mother Nature’s natural predators resolve one issue after another.  

Pat Sutton has been a working naturalist since 1977, first for the Cape May Point State Park and then for 21 years with New Jersey Audubon’s Cape May Bird Observatory, where she was the Naturalist and Program Director.  Today, she is a free-lance writer, photographer, educator, lecturer, tour leader, and conservation gardening educator. She is a passionate advocate for butterflies, moths, bees (and other pollinators), birds, dragonflies, frogs, toads, and other critters. Her own wildlife garden is a “teaching garden” featured in many programs, workshops, and garden tours.

DIRECTIONS to F-111 at Stockton University:

Park in parking lots 1, 2, or 3 and walk to the Campus Center Building. Go through the Center’s main doors straight through to the back entrance (past the fireplace) and exit to the walkway beyond.  F-wing will be the building on your right.  Enter that and turn right at the end of the hallway.  F-111 will be on your right, across from the library.