Welcome to our first walk of the 2022 First Thursday Botanizing series. Forester and long-time RIWPS volunteer Paul Dolan will guide us through an area in Lincoln Woods State Park […]
Join Karen Asher to learn how to use native plants to create beautiful, well-balanced and thriving landscapes. Turn your backyard into a bio-diverse refuge for the plants, birds, pollinators and […]
Epigaea repens (trailing-arbutus), DMCGrady Enjoy a rite of spring on a short hike to see the early blooming trailing-arbutus (Epigaea repens) in the Arcadia Management area. It has been thriving […]
Canada-mayflower, DMcGrady On this walk with biologist Denise Poyer, we will discover early spring flowers deep in the Arcadia Management Area. We will first wander south on Sand Trail to […]
On May 7 from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. find our Early Native Plant Sale, featuring spring ephemerals and early bloomers, at Casey Farm in Saunderstown. Click here for more details about […]
Join Doug Mcgrady for the first of his Plants & Their Places Series to explore Boston Hollow in Ashford, CT. Boston Hollow is part of the Yale-Myers Forest in Ashford. […]
Sin and Flesh Brook meanders through eighty-acres of Tiverton’s signature coastal oak-holly forest adjacent to the Fort Barton Revolutionary War Redoubt. The stream’s loveliness belies its curious name given to it following a bloody encounter between a Quaker preacher and a band of Pocasset natives during King Philip’s War. That harsh memory has been replaced […]
Our June 4 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m The Best Native Plant Sale in Rhode Island will be held at URI Cooperative Extension Center Botanical Garden. This is our largest sale. Choose […]
Heather Faubert from the Plant Sciences and Entomology Department at the University of Rhode Island will talk about how to detect and treat some of the common - and not […]
Botanizing Walk at Blue Pond We have moved this walk to the second Thursday in July to avoid the 4th of July holiday week! Join URI Professor Brian Maynard for […]