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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… Read more »

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… Read more »

Good morning, Wild Ones! Tired of all the up and down weather weirdness? Cheer up – the plant sale advance order form is here! We have many new offerings and old favorites to tempt you, plus almost all of our plants are now available in quart pots so they’re extra big and more resistant to… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »