Greater DuPage Wild Ones Annual Potluck Supper featuring DuPage Monarch Project

Date/Time
Saturday April 27, 2019 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Location
DuPage Unitarian Universalist Church
1828 Old Naperville Rd.
Naperville, IL 60563

6:00 p.m. 

Potluck Supper

Please join us for an evening of good food and growing friendship.   Please bring a main dish, side dish, salad or dessert to share and your own re-usable place setting.  Coffee, tea and soft drinks will be provided.  We also encourage you to share pictures of your yard with us.  We’ll have a display table for this purpose and hope to see many inspiring projects.

7:00 p.m.

DuPage Monarch Project: Local Solutions for Monarch Recovery

Presentation by  Connie Schmidt and Lonnie Morris 

When Karen Oberhauser, Director of the University of Wisconsin Madison Arboretum and Chair of Monarch Joint Venture was asked why we should care about monarch butterflies, she answered that while they’re not a keystone species or significant pollinator, they are an iconic species, beloved by many.  The connections they offer with nature create a vast audience of people who care about them and the environment.

DuPage Monarch Project recognizes the widespread interest in and concern about monarch decline and has created an organization for helping people be part of the national and regional monarch conservation effort   With a few simple additions, one garden makes a difference and a community of gardens adds up to a solution.