Wild Ones Host ‘Hometown Habitat’ Screening Oct. 8

Door County Wild Ones invites the public to a showing of the movie Hometown Habitat: Stories of Bringing Nature Home. The film will be shown Oct. 8 at 5 pm at Crossroads at Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay. The screening is free and open to the public.

Producer/director Catherine Zimmerman and film crew spent two years traveling the country to visit Hometown Habitat heroes. The documentary features renowned entomologist Dr. Douglas Tallamy, whose research, books and lectures on the use of non-native plants in landscaping, sound the alarm about habitat and species loss. Tallamy provides the narrative thread that challenges the notion that humans are here and nature is someplace else. Tallamy says, “It doesn’t have to, and shouldn’t be that way.” Catherine filmed portions of the film in Green Bay and received support from local individuals as well as the Green Bay and Door County Wild Ones Chapters.

Tallamy’s vision is illustrated by inspiring stories of community commitment to conservation landscaping. Examples of successful interventions may awaken and redefine our relationship with nature by bringing it to the places where we live. For more information about Hometown Habitat, visit themeadowproject.com.