Backyard Ecology Community

🌱 get help figuring out how to attract more pollinators and wildlife to your property in a way that that is aesthetically pleasing and works with the other ways your family wants to use your land?

🌱 find encouragement and support when your habitat or pollinator project doesn’t go the way you planned, you’re struggling with a stubborn invasive species, or run up against a challenging situation?

🌱 get answers to questions that you don’t even know you have, while bouncing around ideas and supporting others who are trying to do similar things?

🌱 share interesting plants, insects, or other animals that you find with others who are just as excited as you about what you found?

🌱 just generally geek out about nature?

As a member of the Backyard Ecology Community you will…

🦋 Save time, money, and frustration by not having to figure it all out by yourself.

• You’ll have direct access to experts and other community members who are also creating, maintaining, and improving pollinator and wildlife habitat on their properties.

🦋 Avoid overwhelm and information overload by getting answers to your questions as they relate to your property.

• Receive customized and personalized guidance that is tailored for your unique property, skills, time, finances, and other resources. That’s something you can’t get scanning websites, reading books, or watching videos because it requires getting to know you.

🦋 Gain inspiration and motivation to take action.

• Discover easy, but effective, ways to create habitat and a thriving ecosystem on your property.
• Find inspiration in the stories and experiences shared by other members.
• Get motivated by sharing your habitat goals and being encouraged to achieve them.

🦋 Confidently create, improve, and expand your pollinator and wildlife habitat.

• Obtain the knowledge, skills, and techniques to confidently think through the process, weigh your options, and implement your plan.
• If you run up against a problem or challenge, just ask and you’ll receive customized and personalized answers and guidance.

🦋 Be surrounded by a community of fellow nature lovers and Backyard Ecologists.

• Everyone in the Backyard Ecology Community is there to celebrate your successes, brainstorm with you, provide encouragement, and support you throughout your habitat creation journey.
• We look forward to you being there for us in the same ways.

🌱 live in the eastern U.S.

🌱 want your property to look nice while also attracting and supporting local pollinators and wildlife.

🌱 dream of creating habitat and a thriving ecosystem on your property, not just another garden.

🌱 struggle with figuring out how to apply everything you’ve read or watched about habitat creation to your specific location and situation.

🌱 feel frustrated and overwhelmed from trying to do everything by yourself.

🌱 wish you could have ongoing mentoring, coaching, and support from experts and others who are doing all the things you dream of doing.

🌱 are tired of generic, cookie-cutter solutions that never seem quite “right” for your situation.

🦋 A private, members-only forum where you can post questions, share successes and challenges, geek out about nature, and interact with others who share your interests and desires without the hassle and toxicity of traditional social media.

🦋 2 monthly events where we provide a bite-sized lesson about a topic relevant to that month, answer questions about your pollinator and wildlife habitat projects, and facilitate group discussions.

• Recordings are available for those who can’t make a live event.

🦋 The ability to request an Opportunity Seat where we dive deep into a specific challenge you are facing and help you develop a plan and course of action.

• An hour long, private, virtual habitat consultation or coaching session costs roughly as much as an annual membership and the private session wouldn’t include the ongoing support provided through the forum and monthly events.

🦋 Direct access to us.

• We are members of the community too and are actively involved in the community – answering your questions, teaching, mentoring, coaching, and sharing our own stories, experiences, and wisdom.

🦋 Opportunity to make new friends and help others who are on similar ecological journeys.

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🦋 Come with an open mind. Your solutions and balancing points may be different than someone else’s, and that’s ok.

🦋 Be willing to participate in the activities, including engaging in the member forum, to the extent that you are able and feel comfortable doing so.

🦋 Share your knowledge and experiences with other members of the group. We all know something that someone else doesn’t and we all benefit when everyone shares what we know.

We are Shannon and Anthony Trimboli. We live in southcentral Kentucky and are life-long nature lovers. Shannon has an M.S. in Ecology and a B.S. in wildlife biology. Anthony has an M.S. in Agriculture and a B.S. in wildlife biology.

We are passionate about sharing our love of nature with others. We enjoy inspiring people to form their own connections with nature and then take action to create their own natural oases.

In addition to hosting Backyard Ecology, we operate a small native plant nursery and habitat consulting business for pollinators and wildlife. Shannon has also written multiple books and we both give presentations and keynotes focused on the topics we cover through Backyard Ecology.

Like you, we are also actively working on and managing our property to attract pollinators and wildlife. So, we understand all the excitement, challenges, frustrations, and celebrations that come with trying to create functioning ecosystems on your property because we’re experiencing the same things. We bring all of those experiences and the knowledge gained from them to the Backyard Ecology where we are both actively involved as members as well as experts and leaders.

Become a member of the Backyard Ecology Community today and say good-by to…

🌱 trying to figure it all out on your own,

🌱 feeling frustrated and overwhelmed by information overload, and

🌱 struggling with generic, cookie-cutter solutions that never seem quite “right” for your situation.