Wild Ones News and Events
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We will continue with our maintenance of the Westmeade Elementary School native gardens Sundays from 9:30 - 11:30 AM. If you want to become new volunteer, please send an email to the chapter asking to be added to the distribution list for this event so you can get notifications of last minute changes.
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Everyone is invited to attend our informal chat meetings via Zoom that occur on the second Monday of each month at 7 PM. These are unstructured meetings where attendees ask/answer questions about native plants and related topics and share related information. Zoom Link.
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February 2023 Chapter Meeting
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Holly Taylor was our featured guest at our July 2022 meeting where she told us All About Bees. She will be returning to give a related presentation at our February 2023 meeting on
Planting for Pollinators
She will discuss the native plants that she finds to be the best performing attractors for pollinators. Additional information will be available soon on the event post for this meeting.
Holly Taylor has been the Assistant State Naturalist for Tennessee State Parks since 2018. Prior to that she has worked as a naturalist and interpretive ranger for state parks since 2006. She is also the chapter coordinator for the Cumberland Mountain State Park chapter of the Tennessee Naturalist Program. She graduated from Tennessee Tech University with a bachelor's in Conservation Biology in 2009.
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The Wild Readers Book Club will hold its third Zoom meeting to continue its discussions of The Forest Unseen by David George Haskell. We will meet on Wednesday, March 8, at 7 PM. Since attendance is capped, attendees will need to register at our event page to participate. This event is open to everyone. |
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Portland Pocket Park Pollinator Patch
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This alliterative project of Second Sunday Gardeners and the Tennessee Environmental Council is an educational event to install two no-till, low-maintenance pollinator gardens at Portland Pocket Park at the corner of 21st Avenue and Portland Avenue in Nashville. Our chapter will have a table at this event as well as volunteers assisting with the installation. This will be a good opportunity to learn about two no-till installation methods that result in low-maintenance gardens:
- layered or lasagna bed method
- Hügelkultur bed method
If you would like to help out, you can sign up directly at this TEC page.
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Nashville Lawn and Garden Show
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Thanks go to everyone that signed up to staff our four-organization, four-day, double booth at the upcoming Nashville Lawn & Garden show, March 2 - 5. If you attend the show, please visit us in our shared booths 257/264 near the cafe where you can learn more about the
- Tennessee Naturalist Program, the
- Tennessee Invasive Plant Council, the
- Tennessee Native Plant Society, and
- our Wild Ones Middle Tennessee chapter.
Visit the show website for all the details including a floor map with booth numbers.
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Swan Conservation Trust Invasive Removal
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Our chapter is partnering with the Southeastern Grassland Institute volunteer group to help remove invasive plants from a newly acquired property of the Swan Conservation Trust in Lewis County. Cynthia Rohrbach, our December 2022 speaker, explained the wonderful work she and the Swan Conservation Trust have done to improve the headwaters of Big Swan Creek along with several other successes with land stewardship in that area.
Parking at the work site is limited, so we may need to meet at a nearby parking area and carpool depending on the number of attendees. Please sign up for this event so we can track the number of volunteers.
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Events of Nearby Chapters
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You can click on the above graphic for information about the Plant Natives 2023! events coming up in Chattanooga. For other events of nearby chapters, please follow the links below.
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The Georgia Native Plant Society, in partnership with Georgia Audubon, is presenting their 28th annual symposium virtually again on Saturday and Sunday, February 18-19. Registration for each day is separate -- $10/day for members of either organization, $12/day for non-members. Visit the symposium webpage for all the details.
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Trails & Trilliums Festival
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The 19th annual Trails & Trilliums Festival returns this year on Earth Day weekend at Beersheba Springs, TN. General registration begins on February 19, but early bird registration is available now for Friends of South Cumberland members and for Tennessee Naturalist Program students and alumni. The festival runs Friday through Sunday, April 21 - 23. See the website for all the details including the schedule of events, prresentations, and the registration details.
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Thank you for being on our email list. We really appreciate your interest in keeping up with our chapter's activities. If you are not already a member, please consider joining the 159 members of the Wild Ones Middle Tennessee chapter along with over 8,000 national members to demonstrate your support for using native plants and employing sustainable landscaping practices to support biodiversity. Collectively, we all work toward
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Member benefits include:
- Access to the current electronic issue of the quarterly Wild Ones Journal;
- Invitations to workshops, garden tours, seed exchanges, plants sales, and stewardship project;
- Discounts for partner educational webinars such as NDAL, etc. and Wild Ones chapter programs like native plant sales and other paid events;
- Participation in an annual national photo contest
- Access to the Wild Ones Member Center for learning resources;
- Participation in Wild for Monarchs and Native Garden recognition programs;
- Involvement in citizen science and networking with conservation partners;
- Receiving Wild Ones National e-Newsletters;
- Invitation to Wild Ones' private Facebook discussion group and the national Wild Ones Annual Member Meeting;
- Networking opportunities and camaraderie with like-minded people who care about native plants and our planet.
Member contributions help facilitate the Wild Ones mission of restoring native landscapes by allowing us to:
- Provide free, educational resources and learning opportunities that are open to the public from respected experts like Wild Ones Honorary Directors Doug Tallamy, Neil Diboll, Heather Holm, Donna VanBuecken, and Larry Weaner;
- Support the efforts of over 100 local Wild Ones chapters and seedlings in 29 states;
- Publish a quarterly, award-winning, online journal featuring current native plant information and resources;
- Share free, professionally-designed native garden templates for multiple regions in the United States.
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