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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Please note. This walk has been cancelled. We have moved this walk to the second Thursday of the month to avoid being too close to Labor Day Weekend! Late summer […]
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 […]
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. September 17 will mark the first anniversary of the groundbreaking for the garden, a URI Master Gardener Program project in partnership with the USFWS. Thirty […]
Join Dr. Robert J. Gegear from UMASS Dartmouth for a workshop on what you can do to maximize biodiversity conservation in your own backyard by creating and sustaining pollination systems at risk of local extinction. Dr. Gegear, who spoke at the Lisa Lofland Gould Lecture in the fall of 2019 about his research on the […]