Beechwood Lecture: Life in the Soil

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

Worm Composting Join Monique Bosch from Wiggle Room - Organic Worm Composting to learn how worm composing can help you grow the healthiest plants this season.  We’ll explore ‘living soil’, what it looks like, how to make it, and how to harness its goodness.  A step-by-step instruction will be given for those interested in starting […]

Wild Garden Party – On Making Seed Starter Kits

Our October Wild Garden Party centered on seed collection. This month let's talk about how to get them into the 'dirt'.  Let's plan for a get together to make seed starting kits for ourselves, and others.  We will come up with a list of things needed based on the "clam shell" method. If you have […]

Workshop: Create a Terrarium with Native Plants

Kingston, RI

Have you ever seen a terrarium built from native evergreens? Now's your chance to make one for your own holiday table. In this workshop learn how to make and cultivate a mini-ecosystem with native evergreen plants. Your terrarium will be an actual living mini-cultivating garden to be enjoyed throughout the winter and either planted outdoors […]

Wild Garden Party – Putting Together Seed Starting Kits

Riverside, RI

Our December 4 Wild Garden Party we be putting together seed starter kits at the home of Sally Johnson in Riverside, RI, starting at 1 pm. Bring your salad containers, responsibly collected native seeds, extra plug trays, and lunch bags.  We will supply other materials as needed (based on our discussion on November 9). It […]

Go Wild about Native Plants – Potluck Luncheon (for members) Postponed

Rhode Island Historical Society, Aldrich House 110 Benevolent Street, Providence, RI

DUE TO THE MOST RECENT COVID CONDITIONS, THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL A DATE LATER IN 2022.  Join us for a Potluck Luncheon. Let's enjoy spending time with fellow native plant enthusiasts.  Brian Maynard, long time RIWPS member and URI professor, Department of Plant Sciences and Entomology, will also be sharing his perspectives in a […]

How Native Plant Cultivars Affect Pollinators – Lisa Lofland Gould Lecture

Webinar

How Native Plant Cultivars Affect Pollinators This lecture was originally scheduled in November.  It has been rescheduled for Sunday, January 23, 2022 at 3:00pm. The webinar will now be via a Zoom Webinar platform. If you registered for the original session you need to reregister.  New registrations are also welcome. Click here to REGISTER Native […]

Beechwood Lecture: Rhode Island BioBlitz (Cancelled)

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

All Master Gardener indoor programs have been called through March 1. The program will be rescheduled. Community-Based Science and the Biodiversity in Our Backyards Even in Rhode Island, the plainest pieces of land can be home to a thousand species of animal and plant.  BioBlitz is an effort by volunteers to count as many species as […]

Book Discussion: Entangled Life (Member Event)

Online

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures Come join us in a discussion of the fascinating book, Entangled Life, by Merlin Sheldrake on February 27, 2022 at 2 PM. Entangled Life comes to us from the award-winning author and biologist, Merlin Sheldrake, who beautifully shares his love of […]

Welcome Spring Walk at the Great Swamp WMA

South Kingstown, RI

Round-leaved Sundew, DMcGrady Are there plants in bloom this early in the Spring? We will find out as we stroll along a trail at Great Swamp Wildlife Management Area in […]