Larry Vickerman

For over 16 years Larry Vickerman has served as Director of Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield Farms, a 700-acre farm and public garden in Littleton, Colorado. His professional background includes more than 40 years in farming/ranching, landscape/production horticulture, prairie restoration and consulting. He has worked in Washington, Kansas, Colorado, Europe, and Asia. He serves on the United Nations’ WASAG, The Global Framework for Water Scarcity in Agriculture Committee. He is co-author of Steppes: The plants and ecology of the world’s semi-arid regions. In the last 25 years, he has researched and developed seeding techniques for riparian and prairie habitat restoration to support a wide array of pollinators, beneficial insects, and wildlife. He served as President of the San Isabel Land Protection Trust, based in Westcliffe, Colorado until December 2021. He is a fourth-generation Coloradoan, having grown up on a cattle ranch in the Wet Mountain Valley. Larry obtained a B.S. from Colorado State University in Landscape Management in 1990 and a M.S. in Non-Profit/ Public Garden Management from University of Washington in 1993.