BIRD TALK TOURS
SOUTH FLORIDA WINTER TOUR BIRD TALK ’25
WINTER 2025 FLORIDA KEYS & SOUTH FLORIDA TALKS
The last tour included talks at Homestead, Key Largo, Islamorada, Marathon, and Key West libraries. We are submitting proposals to other civic groups for talks. Tricia is currently working on a schedule to include the above libraries and add more events to this tour.
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SPONSOR A BIRD TALK
We need your assistance to bring this activity to the community to connect people to birds and native plants. We can make a difference in the lives of migrating birds this year. Please go to our GoFundMe page to make a donation. Tricia is also requesting funds to complete the 501 C set up and paperwork to make this a non profit. Thank you!
Spring 2024
March 7, 2024 Niceville Community Center Complex at 2pm
March 14, 2024 FWB Food Trucks @ FWB Library Center 9am Plant Swap
March 20, 2024 Ft. Walton Beach Library Hall at 3pm
April 23, 2024 Destin Library at 4pm
May 4, 2024 Native Plant Festival at Paradise Palms and Plant Valpariso, FL at 9 am to 2pm
June 4, 2024 Shalimar County Government Complex at 1:30 pm
October 10, 2024 Longleaf Pine Chapter FNSP at the Pensacola MESS Hall 6:30pm
October 19, 2024 Paradise Trees & Palms – Native Plant Festival Day 9 am – Noon
Sponsored by Paradise Trees & Palms
Crestview Library March 2023 : March 2, 2023 Talks and Art at 10:30am and 3:00pm
March 30, 2023 Talk at 10:30am
The art installation will be available for the month of March 2023.
West Florida Library Talk : March 10, 2023 at 4:00Pm
In October 2022, Tricia launched the first annaul south migration for Food Trucks For Birds Tour. It began with her trip south from the panhandle to the Southern Most Point in Key West. Along the way, she stopped at the libraries in Homestead, Key Largo, Islamorada, Marathon, and Key West to offer planting plans and information about the Neotropical Birds Migration through the Tropical Hardwood Hammocks in South Florida and the Florida Keys.
RECOGNITION
Landscape Design, Art, and Graduate School at Florida International University
- FIU Parklet at Jacksonville FL Chapter ASLA conference August 2016
- Upper Keys Garden Club: Featured speaker for the Hammock Bird research project. January 2017
- Professional Practice Network: Women in Landscape Architecture. Talk Story CEU webinar September 2017
- Pompano Beach Garden Club : Bahamas Studio project concerning the documentation of their cultural landscapes January 2018
- ASLA Merit Award: Hammock Bird, Independent Research study concerning the Neotropical Bird Migrating through the Tropical Hardwood Hammocks in the Florida Keys. August 2019
- HALS submission to Library of Congress: Research paper submitted for the National Historical Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys. September 2019
- Mike Oliver Aware LARE workshop FL Chapter ASLA 2019
- Pembrook Pines Art Galley Exhibition Academy of Portrait & Figurative Art selected works by the curator for an exhibit. January 2020
Tricia Keffer
Founder, PLA, MLA Landscape Architecture
Happy Day! I look forward to connecting with my clients on their social platforms and LinkedIn. I’ll include a bit about myself here. I love art (of course) my inspiration is Claude Monet. I enjoy walks, biking , and being on the water.
I love arranging my own landscape property with plants and structures too. Maybe I’ll post a few here in thenext couple of months