The majority of our audience is made up of landscape professionals (including but not limited to landscape designers, landscape architects, restoration ecologists, and horticulturists); and in recent years it has grown to include many non-professionals such as home gardeners, educators, community activists, and students. We draw from a national and international community, and sponsors can curate their exposure to a specific audience demographic or choose a broad mix of audience members across NDAL’s programming.

Over the course of 34 years, NDAL has developed a devoted and trusting relationship with its audience members. Our sponsors’ association with us benefits from our deep relationships with our community of professionals, home gardeners, and students.

Something particularly special about NDAL’s audience members is how incredibly accomplished and knowledgeable many of them are about landscape design, restoration, native plants, and/or garden ecology. While many have attended undergraduate and postgraduate school in these or related fields, most learn by doing. Consequently, our programs are enhanced by greatly informed attendee questions and knowledge sharing. If you want to reach individuals with intimate ecological proficiency, promoting your brand to NDAL’s audience is a great way to reach these individuals.

Our audience members have shown such strong support for NDAL over the years with warm testimonials and inquiries for collaboration. This collaborative energy drives the appetite for continuous learning and experimentation with new organizations, products, and resources.

Another unique aspect of NDAL’s programming is its interdisciplinary content. We bring together speakers from diverse fields to create the most synergistic educational experience possible. This type of programming draws those who are open-minded and curious to learn new approaches and test new methods. Therefore, when you sponsor NDAL’s programming, you are supporting a learning community that is open to different ways of participating in ecology & design.

Some educational resources are heavy on the theoretical, while others solely explore on-the-ground methods without recognizing the rationale. NDAL’s courses and events strike the balance between practicality and theory. As a sponsor, sharing your brand with our audience will feel aligned whether your content skews hands-on or academic.

We’ve heard numerous attendees over the years refer to our educational content as filling a niche that otherwise doesn’t exist in the landscape and gardening field. The information that NDAL provides will grow increasingly popular as more practitioners, home owners, and municipalities embrace an ecology-based approach to landscape design. Thus sponsoring NDAL means supporting the growth of educational opportunities with great benefits to our ecosystem and society!