By Nan & Neil Adams Heartland Prairie tours The Nature Institute is offering tours at Heartland Prairie, near Alton (Google map) on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in April, May and June (April 16 & 30, May 14 & 28, June 11 & 25). The tours are from 5:30-6:30 pm and will focus on…
From Peter VanLinn III, Park Ecologist, Forest Park Forever Forest Park Forever is offering a series of walking tours in Forest Park: Free to the Public Hour-long behind-the-scenes tours lead by Forest Park Forever Staff Bring family, friends & leashed pets Please have all members of group ready to begin at…
Membership Chair Betty Stuckhoff welcomed thirty-two members and guests at The Heights community center of Richmond Heights. Announcements and Volunteer Opportunities St. Louis Earth Day Festival in Forest Park – April 21 Seedling wrapping – April 20 Fran Glass circulated volunteer sign-up sheets to staff our educational booth at the…
In addition to providing a great ongoing series of classes, the Native Plant School (co-sponsored by St. Louis Wild Ones) at Shaw Nature Reserve also has an e-mail newsletter with helpful gardening tips, informative articles, and more. Read the March edition. To sign up for the newsletter, e-mail Besa Schweitzer…
by Betty Struckhoff Big plastic pot — $25 50′ Outdoor electrical cord — $34 Pump — $19 Watching birds at my bubbler — Priceless! Friends know I’m a lazy gardener. So I dragged my feet on creating a bird bubbler for my yard. But last year I finally gave in. …
From Alan Hopefl, President of the Kirkwood Park Board The Kirkwood Parks & Recreation Department is sponsoring several nature hikes this spring. Saturday March 30th, 10:00 AM, GEOLOGY HIKE Spend an hour or more learning about the local geology of Missouri at Meramec Highlands Quarry at Dee Koestering Park (1703…
The George O. White State Forest Nursery near Licking, Missouri is having an open house on April 6. The nursery is a great source of inexpensive tree and shrub seedlings. Wild Ones gives away their seedlings for Earth Day each year. The open house is from 9 a.m. to 2…
By Betty Struckhoff If spring is a little late, I’m not complaining. I’m hoping against hope that it means we’ll be spared some of the wrath of a St. Louis summer. Last Saturday was a perfect day for a walk in the woods to check out what was happening. Here…
by Larry Hummel Over the years Joan and I have purchased a number of seedling (whips) packages from the Missouri Department of Conservation nursery. Our property is large enough that spring planting involved way too much work in order to provide water to the plants during the summer when both roots…
Now in its 3rd year, the Sustainable Backyard Tour is a free, self-guided, open-house-style tour of sustainable outdoor residential spaces around St. Louis. It is a unique opportunity to see first hand how others have integrated sustainable living practices into their little piece of Earth. This year’s tour will be Sunday, June 23. If…
