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March 2026
Shrink Your Lawn - by Dustin Demmer
Public Welcome Program/Speaker Presentation
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.
Free National Webinar: Rethinking Horticulture with Real Ecology presented by Joey Santore
Hosted by Wild Ones NationalOnline/Virtual
Public Welcome Recording Available Free Event Program/Speaker 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.
April 2026
Annual Member Dinner Members Only
Members Only Chapter Social
Annual Member Dinner - Celebrate our chapter
Spring Ephemeral Walk - Kaplan's Woods, Owatonna
Public Welcome Program/Speaker Presentation Group Tour Nature Walk/Hike Free Public Parking
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.
May 2026
Plant Sale - Blazing Star Gardens
Public Welcome Seed/Plant Sale Free Public Parking
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/
September 2026
Free National Webinar- September 2026
Hosted by Wild Ones NationalOnline/Virtual
Public Welcome Recording Available Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation
Details coming soon!
October 2026
Free National Webinar- October 2026
Hosted by Wild Ones NationalOnline/Virtual
Public Welcome Recording Available Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation
Details coming soon!
November 2026
Free National Webinar- November 2026
Hosted by Wild Ones NationalOnline/Virtual
Public Welcome Recording Available Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation
Details coming soon!