• Growing Native Seeds and Plants with the Rhode Island Wild Plant Society

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    Growing Native: Successes, Setbacks, and Seeds Friday, January 30, 2026 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. online   Join this program , organized by the Association to Preserve Cape Cod to get caught up with RIWPS propagation efforts.   Sue Theriault, leader of RIWPS ecotypic seed program, ReSeeding RI, has propagating seed at RIWPS since 2018,.  In […]

  • RIWPS Member Event: Virtual Book Discussion – Crossings

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     Virtual Book Discussion (for RIWPS members only) Book: Crossings Discussion date: Sunday 16 March, 3:00 to 4:00 While the days are still short and the temperatures near freezing, let's read and then gather around our screens to discuss Ben Goldfarb's book Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet. Goldfarb is an engaging, prize-winning writer. His […]

  • Book Discussion: Brave the Wild River (Members Only)

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    Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa Sevigny (W.W. Norton Press) Join fellow RIWPS members on March 3 from 2 to 4 pm to discuss Brave the Wild River, the beautifully written adventure story of two women botanists running the untamed Colorado […]

  • ReSeeding RI: Replenishing Native Plants – a URI Master Gardener Program

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    The program below is from the URI Master Gardener Program. It is free and open to the public. Join Dave Vissoe, University of Rhode Island Master Gardener 2017 Hall of Fame and RI Wild Plant Society Vice President, as he takes you on a visual journey of ReSeeding RI from its inception and vision to […]