Author: Liz Frautschi

Garlic Mustard Pickin’ Party, May 6, 9:00 to noon. Join SEGG, Weed Out! Racine, Wild Ones, and Discover Racine for an Earth Day event! We will be pulling and bagging garlic mustard from the Colonial Park floodplain, as part of a larger restoration project. Gather with us on May 6, just past the Root River […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter May 2017 Meeting Announcement – Garlic Mustard Pickin’ Party!"

Good morning, Wild Ones! Ecofest was a huge success ? thanks so much to our members for staffing our booth and filling bags of milkweed seed, because we?ve already given away most of the 400 bags we made! For our April meeting, Valerie Mann from Pringle Nature Center will be talking about phenology and how […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter April 2017 Meeting Announcement"

Good morning, Wild Ones! It hardly feels like winter anymore with all this warm weather! For our March meeting, our own member Tom La Duke will be talking about his beautiful gardens ? how he originally got started, how/why he incorporated rain gardens, and what he?s planning for this year. Also, he brought up the […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter March 2017 Meeting Announcement"

Good morning, Wild Ones! It?s time to stop thinking about winter and start thinking about plants again! To help us do that, for our February meeting everyone who is attending the Fox Valley conference this weekend will give a short report on what they learned. If you are going to the conference, try to get […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter February 2017 Meeting Announcement"

Good morning, Wild Ones! Hopefully you had a wonderful 2016, and are looking forward to an even better 2017! To start things off, we?re going to learn how to identify trees in winter! The forecast for Saturday is supposed to be cold, so let?s plan on meeting inside, although we could include an outdoor portion […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter January 2017 Meeting Announcement"

Good afternoon, Wild Ones! Our December meeting is a party!!! Here?s the info: Where: the Birchwood Grill off Hwy 50 in Kenosha (actual address is 7515 125th Avenue) When: Saturday, December 3rd at 11:00 am (we may or may not be in our typical room just off the lobby, so ask for the Wild Ones […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter December 2016 Meeting Announcement"

Good afternoon, Wild Ones!! Hope you?re staying dry on this very wet, windy day. For our November meeting, we?ll be hearing from Matt Collins from the Kenosha Parks System. He?s going to talk about mitigation of emerald ash borer in Petrifying Springs Park (and beyond) and the impact this has. Here?s the info:   When: Saturday, November 5 […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter November 2016 Meeting Announcement"

Good afternoon, Wild Ones!! Once again, I?m really sorry?I?m so late getting this out to you???Bill?s mom fell and broke her hip and while she?s doing really well, it?s been pretty hectic at the Russin household (plus we had to cancel her 103rd birthday party which was disappointing). For our October meeting, we?ll be learning […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter October 2016 Meeting Announcement"

    Greetings Volunteers and all Friends of the Prairie, The prairie is incredible this time of year! Tall Sunflowers paint acres bright yellow. Purple, blue, and white Asters mix with a variety of Goldenrods. Milkweed pods stand ready to explode. And all of the Prairie Grasses, tall and short, dance in the breeze to […] Continue reading "Chiwaukee Prairie Work Day Announcement"

Don’t forget that this Saturday at 10:00 am we?re going to learn about the history and current doings at River Bend Nature Center. They?re at 3600 N Green Bay Road in Racine, and we?re meeting at Em?s Cabin. Afterwards we can get lunch at the Caledonia Historical Society?s annual heritage festival where we can support […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter September 2016 Meeting Announcement"