Monarchs, Milkweed, and More participated in the University of Illinois Extension Seed Expo on Feb. 10 in Round Lake Beach. We gave away between 700 and 800 packets of native seeds, including three varieties of milkweed. Aside from the seeds, we spread much enthusiasm and information on the importance of planting native gardens. Also, very…
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Seed Packaging for Martin Luther King Day
Monarchs, MIlkweed, and More spent Martin Luther King Day packaging the seeds our members have been collecting to be handed out at the upcoming Seed Expo! Thank you to all who came out to help.
It’s been a busy spring, summer, and fall!
We celebrated Northbrook’s Earth Month by partnering with the Village and with the Park District to do a clean up and buckthorn removal at Techny Prairie and Trail through Time. The weather was cold and rainy; the enthusiasm and turn out was heart warming! Our plant sale was a huge success and many happy plants…
Weeding Floral Park
We spent a wonderful morning tending to the plants we planted last year. It is rewarding to see them flourishing. Even more rewarding is what we found using the plants:
CLC Green Living Fair, Apr. 15, 2023
Tabling at the CLC Green Living Fair, April 15, 2023, was a wonderful experience. There was a wide variety of environmentally friendly displays with a wide range of focus. However, although there was a range of focus, the common goal, a cleaner, healthier environment, made for a close-knit camaraderie. Wonderful networking and new and old…
Changes to Field Museum Citizen Scientist Monarch Monitoring Program
Welcome to our chilly spring everyone! Thank you so much for your past contributions to our Monarch Community Science Project. As we alluded to at the end of our monitoring in 2022, we are very focused on analyzing the data you all have collected over the past four years and producing a peer-reviewed publication to…
Chicago Living Corridors publishes Spring Plant Sale
Native Plant Sales Sales are grouped by county, proceeding north to south, and were originally organized chronologically within county. Current listings show a mix of 2022 and 2023 dates. Listings are updated as the information becomes available. Organizations McHenry County Wildflower Preservation and Propagation CommitteeMay 7, 2023 First Sunday in May at McHenry County CollegeNoon to…
Earth Month Event with Northbrook Park District and Village of Northbrook
Join us on Sunday April 30 at1pm at Trail Through Time Northbrook We will be doing a clean up, a buckthorn and other invasive species removal, and we will be tabling with information on native plants and creating native gardens. Registration is free, but you do need to register with Northbrook Park District: https://www.nbparks.org/earthmonth/