Beavers & Their Habitat (Walk for Members)

Coventry, RI

A 30 year old beaver pond, Coventry, RI Doug McGrady will lead an evening walk to several areas in Coventry, where beavers have built dams and lodges, flooding some areas, creating channels and ponds and otherwise altering the landscape. We will  meet at the Nicholas Farm Management Area. Meeting at dusk, may increase our chances […]

Free

Woonasquatucket River Greenway Restoration Walk

Woonasquatucket River Greenway 50 Aleppo Street, Providence

You may have heard the talk, now lets do the walk Last March Alicia Lehrer, Executive Director of the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council, spoke at our annual meeting about the organization’s work to transform a long swath of neglected landscape along a section of this river in the Olneyville area into a friendly and healthy habitat.  […]

Free

First Thursday Botanizing Walk: URI North Woods

Kingston, RI

Join University of Rhode Island botany instructor Brian Maynard for an exploration of the University of Rhode Island North Woods. Ranging from moist upland forest to pond edges there should be a good variety of trees and flowers to see. We will walk about 2 miles.  This walk is free and open to the public. […]

Tour Kettle Pond Native Plant Garden

Kettle Pond Visitors Center 50 Bend Road, Charlestown, RI

Enjoy the beauty! Dave Vissoe, the leader of the Kettle Pond Garden project at the US Fish and Wildlife Kettle Pond Visitor Center in Charlestown, will guide you around this garden composed entirely of locally sourced native plants. Eighty five percent of the plants, shrubs, grasses and vines came from the Rhode Native™ initiative, a […]

Attracting Bees & Beneficial Insects with Native Plants (Member Event)

Online

Award-winning author, biologist and pollinator conservationist Heather Holm will join us for an online talk about attracting bees and beneficial insects with native plants followed by a Q&A session. Her books include Pollinators of Native Plants (2014), Bees (2017), which won six book awards including the 2018 American Horticultural Society Book Award, and the most recently published, Wasps (February 2021). Heather will […]

Beavers Matter (Walk for Members)

Cumberland, RI

NEW date for this walk that has been cancelled twice due to poor weather! A beaver pond, W Greenwich, RI (photo DMcgrady) Mike Boday, Vice President of the Cumberland Land Trust, will lead a beaver walk through a small section of the 170 acres of woods and marshland, just off the Nate Whipple Highway, in […]

Beechwood Lecture: Capturing the Native Garden in Art

Beechwood Center 44 Beach Street, North Kingstown, RI, United States

Journal Sketch, Frances Topping The Beechwood Lecture Series returns!  The first speaker in this 2021 series, offered jointly by the Rhode Island Wild Plant Society and University of Rhode Island Master Gardener Program is Frances Topping, naturalist, artist and educator. She will focus on why nature journaling and sketching are perfect for naturalists and gardeners […]

RIWPS Fall Native Plant Sale 2021

Rhodes on the Pawtuxet 60 Rhodes Place, Cranston

Find us at the Pawtuxet Village Farmers Market on August 28, 2021.  The market is open from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm.  Take advantage of the fall planting season. We will have over 1,000 native plants and will be featuring fall bloomers. Come early for the best selection. Bring a friend. Bring a wagon. More […]

Wild Garden Party – Live (RIWPS member event)

Riverside, RI

Solidago sempervirens (seaside goldenrod), GGardner Let’s get together in the garden to talk about goldenrods, asters, and the glory of native plants in fall.  Join us in Riverside, RI in […]

Walking Tour: New Native Plant Projects, Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge

Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge 1040 Matunuck Schoolhouse Road, South Kingstown 02879, Rhode Island

Learn about the new native plant garden and the work at restoration sites at Trustom Pond NWR, a 787-acre refuge in South Kingstown, that protects the state's only undeveloped salt pond. […]