Events

We will hear about various native bees, including bumble bees, with a focus on the endangered Rusty patched, as well as many pollinators and other wildlife relationships in a native ecosystem. She plans to include native plant lists for sun and shade that support pollinators, and native habitat to support pollinator nesting, hibernation, and shelter.
Judy Cardin is a bumble bee expert and educator with the WI DNR’s community science program Wisconsin Bumble Bee Brigade. When Judy retired as Bureau Director with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, she transitioned her 50 year passion for nature and gardening into her retirement career: sharing her knowledge of bumble bees, how to restore yard and community spaces to native habitat that will support native wildlife, in particular bumble bees and pollinators. Judy is also the administrator of the Wisconsin/Midwest Bumble Bee Observers Facebook page. Wisconsin/Midwest Bumble Bee Observers | Facebook
An excellent booklet From Judy and her husband: Rusty Patched Bumble Bee Floral Phenology

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.!  

    Dustin is the owner of the native plant nursery Blazing Star Gardens, and is well known for producing and landscaping with native plants.   In addition to growing and marketing beautiful native plants, he is a professional landscaper and garden designer who understands many people want beautiful, high-quality gardens with native plants.  His mission for Blazing Star Gardens is to create wildflower gardens that support wildlife and bring native plants back to the cities and back to the people.   

Dustin will help folks figure out how to reduce their lawns and bring their yards to life with native plant landscapes designed to enhance the beauty and vitality of their properties.             

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.

Annual Member Dinner - Celebrate our chapter

Time and date may change - It will be determined by season and timing of ephemerals (we have to go on their schedule, not ours). 

Spring ephemerals such as Mayapple, Trout Lilu, Spring Beauty, Dutchman's Breeches, Hepatica, Virginia Bluebells, wood poppies, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, and more.  Wild Ramps may also be seen.  Since spring ephemerals pop up in woods before the trees leaf out and complete their life cycles very quickly, Spring is the only time to see these beauties.  

We will offer a ride share from Emmaus Church in Northfield.

We will be hosting Dustin Demmer's Blazing Star Gardens' Native Plant Sale in Northfield - Great opportunity to come and purchase high quality native plants.
Cover photo - by Dustin Demmer of part of one of his gardens.
PRE-ORDERING AVAILABLE: https://www.blazingstargardens.com/ 

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon!