Hosted By: The Lombard Garden Club Date: October 27, 2023Time: 1:00 pm Location: Lombard Community Building, 433 E. St. Charles Road, Lombard Speaker, Dr. Trent Ford, has been the Illinois State Climatologist since 2019. Dr. Ford will address some of the impacts we are seeing now and how climate change will affect our landscapes, agriculture, […] Continue reading "Ways to Slow Climate Change by Individuals and Local Efforts"
Wild Ones Greater DuPage Chapter member Mike MacDonald and creator of Chicago Nature Now! has an exciting big screen immersive exhibition going on right now at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum until the end of August. On June 24th, at 2:00 pm he will be performing My Love Affair with Chicago Nature in Pictures, Poetry, […] Continue reading "My Love Affair with Chicago Nature in Pictures, Poetry, and Prose"
The DuPage Monarch Project, The Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, and the Sierra Club River Prairie Group are sponsoring a free class “Meet Nature Neighbors With iNaturalist” on Thursday, June 1st at 6:30 pm. This class which will teach you how to use iNaturalist to identify plants, bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. Using iNaturalist […] Continue reading "Meet Nature Neighbors With iNaturalist"
Join Benjamin Vogt from Monarch Gardens weekly starting on Thursday 2/16 at 1pm cst (webinars will be recorded) for a three-part series on converting from lawn to meadow landscapes. Each linked webinar can be taken individually or as a discounted whole, and serve as in introduction to some of the most pressing issues suburban gardeners […] Continue reading "Unlawn America Webinars Presented by Benjamin Vogt and Hosted by Monarch Gardens March 16th, February 23rd, and March 2nd"
DuPage Monarch Project and the River Prairie Group of the Illinois Sierra Club are hosting a FREE screening of Plants, Pollinators and Prayers on Wednesday, February 15th, 7:00 pm at the Bloomingdale Public Library. Plants, Pollinators & Prayers is a recent documentary about a local community’s efforts to bring monarch butterflies back to Northern Illinois. […] Continue reading "Free Screening of Plants, Pollinators and Prayers Documentary at the Bloomingdale Public Library on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 7:00 pm"
