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 […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter January 2019 Meeting Announcement"
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 […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter December 2018 Meeting Announcement"
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 […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter Upcoming Elections – We Want You!"
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 […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter November 2018 Meeting Announcement"
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 […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter October 2018 Meeting Announcement"
Good afternoon, Wild Ones!! I?ve been weeding and planting like crazy in this wonderful weather ? hopefully you have been, too! (although some of my weeding and planting was for my mom in Ohio, but I think it still counts) Our next meeting is right around the corner, and it?s a potluck to celebrate the […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter July/August Picnic Chiwaukee Prairie Walk"
Good morning, Wild Ones! You?re probably as tired of this up and down weather as I am, but let?s think spring and focus on how beautiful these last few days have been. For our May meeting, we?ll return to Colonial Park (on the Root River just like our chapter name and designed by the famous […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter May 2018 Meeting Announcement"
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 most of them away! For our April meeting, Dr. Brian Hudelson from the UW Madison Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic is going to talk about diseases […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter April 2018 Meeting Announcement"
For our March meeting, Dr. Joe Walsh, associate professor of instruction in biology at Northwestern University (and basically THE ecologist on campus), is going to talk about the restoration at Somme Prairie Grove in Northbrook, IL. They have a website if you want more information: https://sommepreserve.org Here?s the meeting info: When: Saturday, March 3 at 10:00 […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter March 2018 Meeting Announcement"
The snow we got this morning notwithstanding, 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 chapter conference this weekend will give a short report on what they learned. If you are going to the conference, […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Root River Chapter February 2018 Meeting Announcement"