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Welcome to Native Plant Guy Consulting

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(716) 300-1865

Welcome to Native Plant Guy Consulting

Welcome to Native Plant Guy ConsultingWelcome to Native Plant Guy ConsultingWelcome to Native Plant Guy Consulting

(716) 300-1865

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There's much to see here. So, take your time, look around, and learn all there is to know about Ken and his environmental services. Ken hopes you enjoy the site and take a moment to drop him a line.  

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Industry Champion

KEN PARKER is a passionate Indigenous horticulturalist and member of the Seneca Nation of Indians. A New York State Certified Nursery Landscape Professional (CNLP) and a National Certified Green Infrastructure Program (NGICP) Trainer. He is 1 of 21 NGICP trainers in the US and the first in New York State. 


Ken has spent decades of his life devoted to growing, installing, teaching and promoting indigenous plants of North America. He has proactively participated in various environmental projects, including conservation, restoration, corporate landscaping, green infrastructure, education, marketing and consulting throughout the United States and Canada over the past twenty-five years.

National Green Infrastructure Certification Program (NGICP)

As an approved NGICP trainer, Ken provides your green workforce an opportunity to participate in a nationally recognized standard that promotes exceptional job knowledge and skills to build, inspect and maintain green infrastructure (GI) systems. 


Every profession requires specialized skills. The NGICP is designed to validate whether or not a person has the foundational knowledge needed to properly perform tasks in constructing, inspecting, and maintaining GI. 


The benefits of becoming certified:

  • Expansion of your skills and a national standard for building, inspecting & maintaining GI systems.
  • Proof of your commitment to support sustainable performance of GI practices.
  • Greater awareness of GI career opportunities.
  • Exposure to employers looking to hire competent local GI workers through the NGICP Certification Database. 

Lectures

Ken's vast knowledge of native plants has made him an in-demand local speaker and national lecturer for numerous environmental groups and Native Nations including the Mohawks of St. Regis, New York; the Seminoles of Florida; the Pueblos of New Mexico and the Navajo Nation of Arizona. 


As an international instructor, Ken has taught Fundamentals of Horticulture and Landscape and Horticulture at the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve in Ontario Canada and Professional Development for Horticulture Associates for the Landscape Ontario Horticultural Trades Association. 


In recent years Ken has lectured at the National Seed Conference in New Mexico, the Shinnecock tribe of Long Island, the Mohegan tribe of Connecticut, the Intertribal Native Nursery Council and the U.S. Forestry Department. He was the founder and co-owner for over 17 years of Sweet Grass Gardens in Ontario, Canada, North America’s first Native owned and operated indigenous plant nursery. 

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Ecological solutions for your environmental needs

By appointment only

Ken Parker, CNLP

Buffalo, NY 14226

(716) 300-1865

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A native plant task force

Gardening as though our lives depend on it

by Sally Cunningham, September 2019

http://www.buffalospree.com/Buffalo-Spree/September-2019/A-native-plant-task-force/index.php?

Native Garden Warriors

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Native Garden Warriors

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Food Is Our Medicine, Seneca Nation

by ELIZABETHMHOOVER January 29, 2015
https://gardenwarriorsgoodseeds.com/2015/01/29/food-is-our-medicine-seneca-nation-new-york/

Buffalo-Niagara Gardening

Buffalo-Niagara Gardening

Buffalo-Niagara Gardening

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Watch local cooking challenge & learn to cook with native plants

by Connie Oswald Stofko, September 2013

https://buffalo-niagaragardening.com/2013/09/03/watch-local-cooking-challenge-learn-to-cook-with-native-plants/

Buffalo-Niagara Gardening

Buffalo-Niagara Gardening

Buffalo-Niagara Gardening

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Want something different? Grow native woodland plants

by Connie Oswald Stofko, September 2013

https://buffalo-niagaragardening.com/2012/04/24/want-something-different-grow-native-woodland-plants/

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Buffalo Spree

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WNY -Indigenous Healing Horticulture

by Gerry Rising, April 2017

http://digital.buffalospree.com/buffalospree/april_2017?article_id=1159703&pg=NaN#pgNaN

Buffalo Spree

Buffalo-Niagara Gardening

Buffalo Spree

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A September Hike 

-the Native Plants You’ll See

by Gerry Rising, September 2019

http://www.buffalospree.com/Blogs/The-Dirt/Annual-2019/A-September-Hikethe-Native-Plants-Youll-See/

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