The Prairie Day Festival scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 17, at Shaw Nature Reserve in Gray Summit has been cancelled. The event, sponsored by the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and Shaw Nature Reserve, was called off Friday due to excessive rains, which have made the natural-surface parking area and foot…
By Ed Schmidt Program title: Greening Your Community: Saving the Planet One Garden at a Time Keynote speakers: Mike Roberts, former meteorologist for KSDK News Channel 5, multiple Emmy Award winner, and adjunct instructor at Saint Louis University Sylvester Brown, Jr., Executive Director of the Sweet Potato Project and former…
By Marsha Gebhardt President, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter I am extremely happy to tell you all that we have added two outstanding members-at-large to our Wild Ones-St. Louis Chapter Board of Directors. We welcomed Sue Leahy and James Faupel to their first board meeting in August. These two…
By Marsha Gebhardt President, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter In mid-August I traveled to Neenah, WI (near Green Bay) for a dose of fresh inspiration and enthusiasm. The event was the annual Wild Ones conference, held at the Wild Ones Institute of Learning and Development (WILD Center). The building…
August 3 and 6, 2016 Mark O’Bryan hosted two yard tour gatherings in August. Marsha Gebhardt welcomed 28 members and four guests on August 3, and Wes Boshart welcomed 10 members and four guests on Saturday, August 6. Mark and his family moved into their home in 2000. During their…
By Kathy Bildner Member, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Our organization wants more native plant gardens in public spaces. We are willing to help other groups build these gardens by offering advice and a modest amount of money to get the process started. The geographic area covered is 35…
By Marsha Gebhardt President, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Many of you may now be more acutely aware of the issue that municipal weed ordinances can present for native plant gardens in front yards, due to the recent publicity about Alice Hezel’s fight with the Maplewood city council. The…
Wild Ones member Margy Terpstra will give her program Why Our Yards are So Important to the Full Life-cycle Conservation of Our Native Birds tonight, Tuesday August 16, at The Ethical Society, for the monthly meeting of the Missouri Nature and Environmental Photographers (MoNEP). Our members and readers are invited to attend the free…
By Dawn Weber Board Member-at-Large, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Admittedly I am not much of a podcast listener, which is surprising (even to me) given my love of the internet, but I’ve found one that may change all of that: the Native Plant Podcast. Launched in January of…
The 2016 Wild Ones Photo Contest is underway! Four members from our chapter submitted photos this year for the contest. After the winners are announced, we will reveal who submitted which photo. In alphabetical order by category and then title, here are the photos: Flora: Garden Doodles Flora: Ice Ribbons Flora:…
