Kathleen Contrino

Kathy promotes the use of native plants in residential gardens in order to improve ecological diversity. She has been growing native plants and designing native plant gardens since 1997. Kathy is a Master Gardener (Orleans County), working on her certification in Medicinal plants and, as an avid birder, participates in the Feederwatch program with Cornell University. Currently Kathy is recreating the Great Lakes ecosystem on her 10 acres in Akron, NY where she participates in the open gardens section of the Gardens Buffalo Niagara. Kathy owns and operates the CW Native Plant Farm and CW Native Botanika.