California Native Plant Society member, Margaret Flaherty will teach about the variety of pollinators that can be found in the Bay Area and how native plants and gardening practices can help support them.
Margaret Flaherty has been a member of California Native Plant Society for 10 years. She volunteers in the Berkeley hills at the Native Here Nursery as well as does restoration work on Skyline Trail above the 24 tunnel and a bit of guerilla gardening including at Lawrence Hall of Science (the roundabout). She took a 9 month Ecological Restoration Field class with Glen Schneider, Harvard trained botanist and now ecologist, in 2024. She became a certified California Naturalist in 2025 and taught a 9-week plant biology class to the 5th graders at EBI in Emeryville that same year. She has been giving talks at local libraries and churches throughout the Bay area since November 2025.