Christina Mild
M.S. in Biological Sciences and an Honorary Texas Master Naturalist
Helped establish Harlingen's Ramsey Nature Park
Speaker Profile
About Christina Mild
Christina Mild is a semi-retired, profesional Science teacher with an M.S. in Biological Sciences and an Honorary Texas Master Naturalist, whose first contact with local naturalists occurred almost 21 years ago when she was a director at the Valley Nature Center, an urban oasis of habitat preservation in Weslaco, Texas. Since that time, she has learned lots from legendary botanists, Dr. Alfred Richardson and Dr. Robert Leonard, and employed that knowledge to transform her own yard with native plants and to help establish Harlingen's Ramsey Nature Park, the Arroyo Colorado World Birding Center site.
This remarkable example of succesful habitat restoration on the suburban landscape is a featured field trip destination during the Wild Gardening Festival, where Mild will teach participants about tasty, native fruits, herbs and medicinal plant parts found in the wild and revegetated spaces of deep south Texas.
Initiatives designed to create edible native gardens are in progress throughout the country, encouraging young and old to enjoy once-common species in beneficial and enticing ways. Remember: Native species support an entire food chain; so, if you don't enjoy eating wild foodstuff it's ok. The "critters" certainly will!