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Hello All, What better reminder to send the meeting reminder than an article in the local paper: https://journaltimes.com/news/local/volunteers-replant-a-forest-in-colonial-park-ravaged-by-the/article_1dbf23bf-0170-5f36-b1ec-33a34cceaae9.html Our meeting next Saturday, May 4 is at Colonial Park in Racine from 9:00 to 11:30 in the morning. Park at the Root River Steelhead Facility lot and navigate to 2200 Domanik Drive. Melissa will be our… Read more »

Happy Spring Wild Ones!   Just a reminder that our April 6 meeting is a tour of the Radtke Perennial Nursery at N12276 Century Lane, Germantown, WI 53022.    The complete tour will begin at 10 am and last approximately 90 minutes. We will go through the production and propagation areas and greenhouses, and (weather… Read more »

Hi everyone! It’s time to start thinking about pre-ordering for the Wild Ones Root River Chapter’s annual native plant sale. This year’s plant sale will be held on Saturday, June 1st from 9am-2pm at Gateway Technical College, 3520 30th Avenue, Kenosha. If you are interested in this presale opportunity, we ask that you order a minimum… Read more »

The February Wild Ones Root River Chapter meeting will be held on Saturday Feb. 2 at 10:00 am at the Bristol School Library (20121 83rd St in Bristol). Members will be sharing notes on the presentations attended at the recent Toward Harmony with Nature conference in Oshkosh. We will also be bagging milkweed seeds to… Read more »

Happy New Year Wild Ones!  To start things off, Chris Kaplan (Clarence and Karen’s son!) is going to tell us about these cool floating native gardens he installed. Here’s the info:   When: Saturday, January 5 at 10:00 am Where: Kenosha Northside Library, 1500 27th Avenue, Kenosha What: Floating Islands of Native Plants   Afterwards we’ll lunch at… Read more »

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 1st at 11:00 am (we will be in our typical room just off the lobby) What: Party party party! We have unlimited access to the breakfast buffet AND soup/salad bar which… Read more »

We will have our annual elections at the December 1 meeting. The vice president (Joann Sustachek), treasurer (Kris Hoth), and membership chair (Nicole Riendeau) are all willing to stay in their positions (although Kris is willing to take over as secretary if someone else wants to be treasurer). The offices of president (me) and secretary (Karen Kaplan) are open… Read more »

Good afternoon, Wild Ones! I hope you’ve been enjoying this drier weather, and with luck you’ve been able to collect some seed for the seed exchange at our upcoming meeting. Even if you haven’t, though, you should still attend – members will have extra seed so you can still participate even if you don’t bring… Read more »

For our October meeting, Jim Keenan will be talking about how to collect native seeds of various kinds, which will be a great lead-in to our November 3rd meeting, which is a member seed exchange! Also, we’re asking members who have common milkweed to collect seed to donate to our chapter for our information booth. Last… Read more »