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SUMMARY:Small Scale Meadow Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Creating a mini meadow in your landscape? Whether you are beginning a project soon or have one in progress\, find inspiration\, ideas and practical information tailored to strengthen your project and learn more about the design process in this workshop on June 22\, 2023 from 2 to 4 pm at URI East Farm. \nUnder the guidance of Graham Gardner\, landscape designer and author of the recently published book Tiny + Wild: Build a Small Scale Meadow Anywhere\, participants will share their projects which will serve as case studies for the group to engage in “design consultations.” Consideration will be given to designing\, installing and managing the project. \nGraham is a Rhode Island native\, URI Landscape Architecture graduate\, and a former RIWPS member. He has over 25 years of experience in landscape design and project management in public\, private\, and non-profit spaces. Graham’s diverse experiences in New England\, plus his work in Colorado\, California\, and Puerto Rico\, have reinforced his passion for the ecological vibrancy and diversity of communities of native plants and for advocating to bring nature’s abundance to our landscapes. \nNotes \nTo share your project at the workshop\, please bring paper\, pencil\, and *hard copies of any materials in your project folder that you wish to share with the group. RIWPS will provide large sheets of paper and/or large white/black board. \nThere will be copies available of Tiny + Wild to purchase should you want.  (Check or cash only) \nFee: $30.00 for RIWPS members and URI Master Gardeners and $35.00 for all others. \nRegistration for this program is closed \nCancellations: Contact office@riwps.org. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/small-scale-meadow-workshop/
LOCATION:URI East Farm\, Kingston\, RI
CATEGORIES:General Event,Programs,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Wild Things - Family Walk\, Carter Preserve
DESCRIPTION:On June 12\, 2023 at 10 am we will have a family walk at the  Nature Conservancy’s Carter Preserve in Charlestown.  Our walk along the Pawcatuck River in a unique pine barrens ecosystem should reveal plenty of interesting plants\, and likely many lady slipper orchids in full bloom. As always\, please bring plenty of water\, snacks\, sun protection\, and bug spray. We’ll be out between 90 minutes and 2 hours.\n\n\nTo provide a personalized learning experience space is very limited –  2 to 3 families.  For more details about our family walks\, including how to express interest in participating click here \n  \n  \n\n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/wild-things-family-walk-carter-preserve/
LOCATION:Kingston\, RI
CATEGORIES:Family Walk,General Event,Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230603T090000
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SUMMARY:The Best Native Plant Sale in Rhode Island  2023
DESCRIPTION:Save the date!\n  \nJune 3\, 2023 | 9 am – noon \n  \nURI Botanical Garden\, Kingston\, RI \n  \n(Member’s pre sale from 8 to 9  am) \n  \nMore Details to follow! \n  \nLearn more about our Native Plant Sales
URL:https://riwps.org/event/best-native-plant-sale-ri-2023/
LOCATION:University of Rhode Island\, Kingston\, RI
CATEGORIES:General Event,Plant sale,Programs
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SUMMARY:Wild Things - Family Walk George B. Parker Woodland Audubon Preserve
DESCRIPTION:On April 11\, 2023 at 10:30 join us for a hike through George Parker Woodland Audubon Preserve. We’ll see an old field meadow\, beech forests\, and a boardwalk over a swamp before ending at a rocky stream in a wooded valley. Please pack sunscreen\, bug spray\, snacks\, and water. We’ll be out between 90 minutes and 2 hours. To provide a personalized learning experience space is very limited. Each walk will be arranged for to 2 to 3 families per walk. \nFor more details about our family walks\, including how to register\, click here \n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/wild-things-family-walk-george-b-parker-woodland-audubon-preserve/
LOCATION:Exeter\, RI
CATEGORIES:Family Walk,General Event,Programs
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SUMMARY:Seeding the Future: A Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:photo (D.Vissoe) \nWHEN & WHERE: Saturday\, November 12\, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.\, at the University of Rhode Island Pharmacy building (Rm 170)\, Kingston\, RI. \nWHY: RIWPS is 35 years old this year\, and we want to celebrate our history – and discuss where we go from here\, in this era of climate change and exploding interest in native plants. \nWHO: Brian Maynard\, longtime board member and professor of plant sciences at URI\, will moderate a panel discussion with Lisa Lofland Gould\, a founder and longtime leader of RIWPS\, Uli Lorimer\, horticulture director of the Native Plant Trust\, and Heather McCargo\, founder of the Wild Seed Project\, in Maine. \nNote: Copies of Uli Lorimer’s recently published book The Northeast Native Plant Primer: 235 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden will be available for purchase.  \nand YES\, we will have CAKE! \nThis event is free and open to the public.  RSVP BELOW\nURI Pharmacy Building is located at 7 Greenhouse Rd\, Kingston. \nLink to the campus map.  Finding the Building – While the building is referred to as the Pharmacy Building\, it is mapped under 3 names\, corresponding to areas in the building: Avedisian\, Tyler and Woodward.  Room 170 is located in the Woodward wing of the building. Parking – Use the Fine Arts lot off of Flagg Road (labeled 7 on the map) or Greenhouse Parking lot (labeled 9 on the map). You do not need a visitors pass or permit to park. \n\n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/seeding-the-future-a-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:URI Pharmacy Building\, Room 170\, 7 Greenhouse Road\, Kingston\, RI\, 02881
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SUMMARY:ONLINE PLANT SALE FOR MEMBERS - STARTING AUGUST 1
DESCRIPTION:ONLINE PLANT SALE FOR MEMBERS STARTING AUGUST 1\, 2020\n• SHOP ONLINE \n• DRIVE THROUGH PICK UP AT PLANE VIEW NURSERY\, PORTSMOUTH\, RI\n\nSee all the details \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/online-plant-sale-for-members-starting-august-1/
CATEGORIES:General Event,Programs,RIWPS Members Event
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SUMMARY:Social & Potluck Luncheon
DESCRIPTION:Go Wild about Native Plants with RIWPS Members & Friends\nSocial & Potluck Luncheon \nJoin us for visual wild plant storytelling and socializing. This is an opportunity to mingle with your fellow native plant enthusiasts. \nSeed Starts East will be offering packets of seeds for butterfly milkweed\, swamp milkweed\, red cardinal flower\, great blue lobelia\, blue vervain and tall white (foxglove) beardtongue. These varieties were selected because they are relatively easy to grow and make excellent garden plants.  They can be sown now. Planting instructions are included.   RIWPS coloring book and RIWPS cap will also be on sale. (cash\, check and credit cards accepted) \nOther details:\n• There is ample on street parking around Aldrich House. \n \n  \nKindly bring an appetizer\, main dish or dessert.\nWe will provide the beverages and the fixings! \n  \nphoto credit. GGardner \nKindly RSVP!
URL:https://riwps.org/event/social-potluck-luncheon/
LOCATION:Rhode Island Historical Society\, Aldrich House\, 110 Benevolent Street\, Providence\, RI
CATEGORIES:General Event,Programs
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SUMMARY:Lisa Lofland Gould Lecture - Ecological pollinator conservation: How do we keep our native ecosystems humming?
DESCRIPTION:Pollinators are declining at an unprecedented rate worldwide due to human-induced rapid environmental change. These declines pose a significant threat to our food supply and consequently\, there has been major focus on the development and implementation of conservation strategies aimed to increase pollinator abundance in agricultural areas. \nThe ecological needs of 98% of wild pollinator species\, however\,  are not considered in such strategies because they do not visit crop plants. These wild pollinators play a critical role in maintaining the function and diversity of natural ecosystems through their unique relationship with native flowering plant species – the products of native plant pollination\, for example\, provide food\, shelter\, and nesting habitat for birds and other wildlife. The continued degradation of native pollination systems therefore poses a significant threat to life on our planet. \nPlease join Dr. Robert J. Gegear for a discussion on what you can do to help protect and restore our native pollination systems\, and the ecological networks that they support\, in your own backyard.  The lecture will begin at 3:30 but will be preceded by refreshments and fellowship starting at 3:00. \n  \nDr. Robert J. Gegear is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Dr. Gegear’s research focuses on the neuroecology and conservation of plant-pollinator interactions\, with particular focus on bumblebees pollination systems. He is also the Director of the Beecology Project\, a citizen science effort to rapidly collect ecological data on pollination systems in New England in order to increase the effectiveness of conservation strategies for threatened species. For his community outreach activities related to the Beecology Project\, Dr. Gegear was awarded the 2018 Regional Impact Award by the Native Plant Trust (formerly New England Wildflower Society). \n  \nThis lecture is underwritten by the Lisa Lofland Gould Native Plant Program Fund and cosponsored by Rhode Island Natural History Survey and University of Rhode Island\, Master Gardener Program. \nThe event is FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC  — Kindly RSVP BELOW\n \nProgram Schedule \n3:00 to 3:30 — Refreshments & Fellowship*\nIf you would like to bring refreshments to share\, please do! \n3:30 to 5:00 — Talk – Ecological pollinator conservation: How do we keep our native ecosystems humming? \n*RIWPS Seed starters are busy collecting seeds they will be selling butterfly milkweed\, swamp milkweed and cardinal flower seeds that they can harvest.\nAdditionally RIPWS will be selling its baseball style caps and the 3rd edition of its coloring book\, A Walk through the Seasons with Rhode Island Wild Plants Cash\, checks\, credit cards accepted. \n  \nInterested in research on native bees in RI including how you can help with the URI survey of bumble bees in RI? click here \nDriving and parking. \nThe pharmacy building is located at 7 Greenhouse Rd on the URI Campus in Kingston. \nPARKING AND ENTRANCE TO THE BUILDING.  See the campus map.  Parking lots 9\, 6 and 7 are closest and there are a few spots outside Tyler building and the Mallon Center.  As it is the weekend you do not need to stop and register at the visitors center and you can park in anyplace where parking is allowed.   Note: The main entrance to the Pharmacy Building is under construction.  The red arrows on the map indicate the entrances to the building. PDF Campus Map \n  \n  \n RSVP  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/lisa-lofland-gould-lecture-ecological-pollinator-conservation-how-do-we-keep-our-native-ecosystems-humming/
LOCATION:URI Pharmacy Building\, Room 170\, 7 Greenhouse Road\, Kingston\, RI\, 02881
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SUMMARY:30th Annual Meeting & Guest Speaker - Lisa Lofland Gould
DESCRIPTION:Back to Our Roots: Being Wild About Wild Plants\nIn celebration of RIWPS 30th Anniversary\, Lisa Lofland Gould\, founding member and first president of RIWPS will address the question\, Why should anyone care about plants\, and especially about that seemingly obscure and often subtle flora we Wild Folks so enjoy?  She will consider the pivotal role that plants play in our lives\, some history of human knowledge of the plant world\, and how we seek to understand plants today. \nLisa grew up in Winston-Salem\, NC in a family of nature lovers. Not surprisingly\, she majored in Biology at UNC-G and went on to earn an MS in Zoology (ecology and behavior of birds) at the University of Rhode Island. At URI she met her husband\, Mark\, who was also an ecologist. Lisa taught biology at URI for many years and was a research associate in the Department of Natural Resources Science. In addition to her legacy at RIWPS\, she cofounded and served as first executive director of the RI Natural History Survey\, and initiated the RI Invasive Species Council. \nWhile in New England\, Lisa especially enjoyed leading walks and teaching plant identification courses for state and regional environmental organizations. Among other publications\, she is a coauthor of Vascular Flora of Rhode Island and Coastal Plants from Cape Cod to Cape Canaveral (UNC Press). \nNow that she is back in North Carolina\, she enjoys participating in activities with the NC Audubon Society\, the Piedmont Land Conservancy\, the Carolina Butterfly Society\, and the NC Native Plant Society (where she currently serves as Secretary of the board of directors). Most her travel these days involves visiting her daughters and their families in New York City and the Albuquerque\, New Mexico area\, where she hopes to pass along her passion for nature to her three fabulous granddaughters. \nTalk cosponsored by\nRhode Island Natural History Survey and URI Master Gardener Program\, Extension Outreach Center \nDetail for parking below. \n\nSchedule of Events\n1:00 to 1:30 — Business Meeting\nIncludes electing the Board of Trustees\, announcing the recipients of the  RIWPS Volunteer Awards and the recipient of RIWPS annual grant \n1:30 to 2:00 — Refreshments & Fellowship\nIf your last name begins with the letters N through Z\, please bring refreshments to share. \n2:00 to 3:30 — Guest Speaker\, Lisa Lofland Gould \nFree and Open to the Public \n\nThanks to our Seed Starters East we offering two different Spring Ephemerals for sale \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				trailing arbutus\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				virginia bluebells\n				\n		\n\nEnjoy the small (3 -4″) woodland Trailing Arbutus with its white flower. It likes shade and is found in pine and oak tree forests and the taller (1-2′) Virginia Bluebells\, whose pink buds open to purple flowers.  It thrives in partial to full shade in rich soils. Both plants are best in mass plantings. Happy Spring! \nOnly cash and checks accepted. \n\nParking \nThe closest parking lot to the Pharmacy building is at the Coastal Institute\, 1 Greenhouse Road\, Kingston. Enter this parking lot from Flagg Road.  Additional parking is found in the Fine Arts Parking lot\, also accessed from Flagg Road. \nCampus Map.  Please note the Coastal Institute on the campus map is marked URI Watershed Watch and the Pharmacy building is marked Brett M. Ferret. \n  \n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/annual-meeting-lisa-gould-guest-speaker/
LOCATION:URI Pharmacy Building\, Room 170\, 7 Greenhouse Road\, Kingston\, RI\, 02881
CATEGORIES:General Event,General Meeting,Programs,Talks
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SUMMARY:General Meeting & Guest Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Big & Little Bluestem\, Michigan roadside. Photo Rhobin’s Garden Blog \nMeadows of Native Warm-Season Grasses and Forbs Coming to New England’s Roadsides?\nA major research project of the New England Transportation Consortium (NETC)\, funded by the Department of Transportation in all six New England states\, aims to find the most affordable\, reliable\, and expeditious methods for establishing meadows of native warm-season grasses (NWSG) and forbs along New England roadsides. These meadows would replace a large portion of the existing introduced cool-season turf grasses that require high resource inputs and frequent mowing. By transitioning to more sustainable management practices\, Departments of Transportation can save on fuel costs\, reduce harmful emissions\, increase pollinator populations\, increase carbon sequestration\, reduce erosion\, improve storm water infiltration\, restore native ecological system functions\, and possibly increase soil rhizodegradation of petroleum pollutants given off by vehicles. \nJohn Campanelli\, a graduate student in ecological restoration at the University of Connecticut\, will discuss his research finding for this project. One of the easiest ways to transition from current populations of predominantly introduced cool season grasses to native warm season ones is to reduce mowing to once a year or once every other year. Wild NWSGs\, such as Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem)\, as well as native cool-season grasses\, such as many varieties of Carex\, currently populate a large portion of New England roadsides. By pursuing a practice that could be labeled “benign neglect”\, these existing colonies of native grasses can grow more dense by out-competing the non-native cool-season grasses and weeds previously introduced by Department of Transportation management practices. In addition\, John will discuss the specific “ecosystem services” of these meadows of NWSGs and forbes. \nJohn Campanelli received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and Columbia Universities. His graduate research is conducted with Professor Julia Kuzovkina\, Department of Plant Science\, University of Connecticut. \nSchedule of Events\n1:00 to 1:30 — Business Meeting \n1:30 to 2:00 — Refreshments & Fellowship\nIf your last name begins with the letters O-Z\, please bring refreshments to share. \n2:00 to 3:30 — Guest Speaker: John Campanelli\, Graduate Student\, Department of Plant Science\, University of Connecticut \nMaps of the URI Kingston Campus
URL:https://riwps.org/event/general-meeting-guest-lecture/
LOCATION:URI\, Coastal Institute (Weaver Auditorium)\, 1 Greenhouse Road\, Kingston\, RI\, 02881\, United States
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