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/
Monarchs, Milkweed, and More honored to participate in 2023 Seed Expo
The Expo opened with a line out the door for the 10 am open to the public! We were very fortunate to have a table near the front door! Within 20 minutes, we gave away our over 200 packets of native seeds. We spent the rest of the Expo talking about planting native gardens and…
Monarchs, Milkweed, and More tables at Wild Ones, November 12, 2022 Conference
Monarchs, Milkweed, and More had the honor of tabling at the Wild Ones Nov. 12 Conference in Round Lake. The focus of the conference was healthy soil, with two sets of speakers from Morton Arboretum. The speakers spoke of the importance of using native plants to keep our soil healthy and the importance of healthy…