What a wonderful day we enjoyed tabling at Crabtree Nature Center. The weather was perfect and the visitors were interested in learning. We handed out incarnata and butterfly milkweed plugs. We answered many questions and discovered many people were unaware of the monarch life cycle and migration. We enjoyed the Polish dancing and the costumed…

We had a beautifully cool day to work on the island. It looks better and better each time we come back. This time we found false indigo thriving, now that it has room to grow! Thank you, Jerry, from River Trails, for these wonderful photos. Thank you to this hardworking crew for their dedication to…

On March 7 at the College of Lake County, we tabled at the Seed Expo. We had 38 varieties of seeds and distributed approximately 2500 packets of seeds! We advocated to many the importance of planting native seeds and made many wonderful contacts! It was a tiring and amazing event!

Once again, we used Martin Luther King Day as a day of service to package our seeds to hand out at the upcoming Seed Expo in March. Our twenty volunteers, from Rochelle Zell High School to MMM members to granddaughters and friends, we packaged approximately 1500 envelopes of a large variety of seeds! Fortunately or…

We were so honored to be back at River Trails Nature Center for their Seed Swap on Sunday Jan. 11. While we didn’t have many seeds to give out, attendees loved our butterfly pins for all and coloring sheets for the children. Attendees were most interested in native plants and asked many wonderful and insightful…

It was a pleasure and an honor to be able to tell Dr. Tallamy, in person, the influence has had on our group. It is because of him the group was founded and because of him we do what we do. We took great pride in listening to him speak while wearing one of our…

Despite the inclement weather, we had a wonderful time at the 2025 Fall Fest. The River Trails staff was kind enough to locate us indoors! We handed out a flat and a half of milkweed plugs and many butterfly pins, bookmarks, and coloring sheets. It was a pleasure to speak with the children and their…

Shermerfest is Northbrook’s annual historic festival. We were proud to be a part of the festival and spread the word about native plants and helping the environment. We handed out native plugs, butterfly pins, coloring sheets, and bookmarks. Tracy Katz Muhl, Northbrook’s state representative, stopped by to show her support for us.

Thank you to Pat, Carol, Tom, Bruce, and Joel for their work to get the parking lot island as neat and tidy as a prairie garden can be. It looks great for the upcoming Fall Festival.

On Aug. 11, Monarchs, Milkweed, and More members toured the roof top garden of Center on Halsted. Robert Sullivan, creator and steward at the time, was kind enough to give us a tour and explain what he had done. It was amazing that native plants on a roof in the middle of the city could…