Events

Our upcoming webinar with Basil Camu explores practical, evidence based ways to heal suburban and urban landscapes by working with trees, soil, and natural systems, drawing on real world practices from Leaf & Limb and community centered models for restoring life where we live, work, and play.!  

The presenter will discuss shrubs and trees available at the Wild Ones Root River chapter's plant sale.  The benefits and challenges of different shrubs and trees for native landscaping will be discussed.  Our chapter's quarterly board meeting will follow the presentation.

Join Joey Santore, creator of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t, for a candid Wild Ones National Webinar examining how inherited garden aesthetics shape native plant landscapes. Drawing on field experience and real ecology, Joey challenges tidy design norms and explores why dense, irregular plant communities are often the most resilient and ecologically sound.

Bill Volkert and Connie Ramthun have been working on their land since 1982 to restore a series of natural communities native to this part of Wisconsin.  You will enjoy their humor and insight about the native plant movement as they tell about turning the family farm into a richly biodiverse oasis.  While only five acres in size, their land is adjacent to the NorthernKettle Moraine StateForest and lies along the shore of Birchwood Lake.  They also manage a seven acre wetland which adjoins their land.

Registration for the hands-on portion may be required.  Details forthcoming.

Chapter quarterly business meeting will held at the event.

Chase Firth, Natural Resources Coordinator - DeadRiver Walking Tour.  2.2 mile hike on a narrow, sandy path.  IllinoisBeach has the only remaining beach ridge shoreline left in the state.  Some of the less common plants that can be seen on this walk are prickly pear cactus, horizontal juniper and bearberry. Not an ADA compliant event.

At Chiwaukee Prairie group's house near Al Kampert Trail at Carol Beach in the village of Pleasant Prairie. Chapter quarterly business meeting will held at the event.

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon! 

Linda Black Elk, author of Watoto Unyutapi, a field guide to edible wild plants of the Dakota people, will discuss key species and how many "weeds" are actually valuable, nutritious food and medicine sources. She is an ethnobotanist at the UnitedTribes TechnicalCollege in BismarkND.

Details coming soon!