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January 2023
Native Gardening at Westmeade
Westmeade Elementary School, 6641 Clearbrook Dr, Nashville, TN, 37205 Map
Public Welcome Free Event Hands-On/How-To Workshop Free Public Parking Lots of Physical Activity
Our chapter maintains the native gardens at Westmeade Elementary School. Everyone is welcome to join us for a little gardening adventure. Since weather can sometimes cause last-minute schedule changes, volunteers are encourage to join our email list for garden activities. Please email [email protected] to be added to this list.
Informal Chat Meeting
Online/Virtual
Public Welcome Free Event Chapter Meeting
Have a question about using native plants in your yard? Have some comments or pictures you want to share? Join us for an informal discussion about native plants and any related topics. Everyone is welcome.
Wild Readers Book Club - The Forest Unseen II
Online/Virtual
Public Welcome Free Event Chapter Meeting
Our Wild Readers Book Club will meet via Zoom to continue the discussion of The Forest Unseen. We will discuss four more chapters from The Forest Unseen beginning with the June 20 chapter and going through the July 27 chapter (pp. 127-147). This event is open to the public, but registration is required.
WOMT Board Meeting
Online/Virtual
Public Welcome Free Event Chapter Board Meeting
Wild Ones Middle Tennessee Chapter board meetings are open to the public.Zoom Link
Native Gardening at Westmeade Elementary School
Westmeade Elementary School
Public Welcome Free Event Hands-On/How-To Workshop Free Public Parking
Our chapter maintains the native plants gardens at Westmeade Elementary School. If you want to join in on the fun, please send an email to [email protected] to get your email address added to our distribution list to be informed of start times, weather cancellations, etc.
January 2023 Chapter Meeting
Online/Virtual
Public Welcome Free Event Chapter Meeting
We will deviate from our usual speaker presentation this month, and focus on our accomplishments in 2022 and what projects we want to emphasize in 2023. A starter list of potential projects the chapter could focus on is at this link on the chapter website. Everyone is invited to look it over and bring your own suggestions for chapter projects to the meeting.
Native Gardening at Westmeade Elementary School
Westmeade Elementary School
Public Welcome Free Event Hands-On/How-To Workshop Free Public Parking
Our chapter maintains the native plants gardens at Westmeade Elementary School. If you want to join in on the fun, please send an email to [email protected] to get your email address added to our distribution list to be informed of start times, weather cancellations, etc.
February 2023
Native Gardening at Westmeade Elementary School
Westmeade Elementary School
Public Welcome Family Friendly Free Event Hands-On/How-To Workshop Free Public Parking
Our chapter maintains the native plants gardens at Westmeade Elementary School in Nashville. If you want to join in on the fun, please send an email to [email protected] to get your email address added to our distribution list to be informed of start times, weather cancellations, etc.
Wild Readers Book Club - The Forest Unseen III
Online/Virtual
Public Welcome Free Event Chapter Meeting
Our Wild Readers Book Club will meet via Zoom to continue the discussion of The Forest Unseen. We will discuss the four January chapters in the book.
Native Gardening at Westmeade Elementary School
Westmeade Elementary School, 6641 Clearbrook Dr, Nashville, TN, 37205 Map
Public Welcome Family Friendly Free Event Hands-On/How-To Workshop Free Public Parking
Our chapter maintains the native plants gardens at Westmeade Elementary School in Nashville. If you want to join in on the fun, please send an email to [email protected] to get your email address added to our distribution list to be informed of start times, weather cancellations, etc.
Informal Chat Meeting
Online/Virtual
Public Welcome Free Event Chapter Meeting
Have a question about using native plants in your yard? Have some comments or pictures you want to share? Join us for an informal discussion about native plants and any related topics. Everyone is welcome.
Native Gardening at Westmeade Elementary School
Westmeade Elementary School, 6641 Clearbrook Dr, Nashville, TN, 37205 Map
Public Welcome Family Friendly Free Event Hands-On/How-To Workshop Free Public Parking
Our chapter maintains the native plants gardens at Westmeade Elementary School in Nashville. If you want to join in on the fun, please send an email to [email protected] to get your email address added to our distribution list to be informed of start times, weather cancellations, etc.
WOMT Board Meeting
Online/Virtual
Public Welcome Free Event Chapter Board Meeting
Wild Ones Middle Tennessee Chapter board meetings are open to the public.Zoom Link
Portland Pocket Park Pollinator Patch
Portland Pocket Park, 2000 Portland Ave, Nashville, TN, 37212 Map
Public Welcome Free Event Hands-On/How-To Workshop Free Public Parking Lots of Physical Activity
Our chapter will have a booth at this volunteer event to install 1,000 square feet of pollinator gardens. Volunteers are needed with the installation, also.
No signup is required to visit the booths and observe the installation. Please register (and sign a Metro waiver at the site) if you want to participate in the installation.
Native Gardening at Westmeade Elementary School
Westmeade Elementary School, 6641 Clearbrook Dr, Nashville, TN, 37205 Map
Public Welcome Family Friendly Free Event Hands-On/How-To Workshop Free Public Parking
Our chapter maintains the native plants gardens at Westmeade Elementary School in Nashville. If you want to join in on the fun, please send an email to [email protected] to get your email address added to our distribution list to be informed of start times, weather cancellations, etc.
February 2023 Chapter Meeting
Online/Virtual
Public Welcome Free Event Chapter Meeting Program/Speaker Presentation
Holly Taylor will be returning to give a presentation on
Planting for Pollinators -- an in-depth guide to pollinator-friendly landscaping.
Why are native plants so crucial for the future or pollinators and the ecosystem? Let's explore this and other questions, as well as discover how easy it is to reverse the pollinator crisis in your own backyard.
Holly Taylor has been the Assistant State Naturalist for Tennessee State Parks since 2018. Prior to that she has worked as a naturalist and interpretive ranger for state parks since 2006, and even spent a couple of years as a traveling wildlife presenter for the Natural History Educational Company of the Midsouth (now Animalogy). She is also the chapter coordinator for the Cumberland Mountain State Park chapter of the Tennessee Naturalist Program. She graduated from Tennessee Tech University with a bachelor's in Conservation Biology in 2009. Holly has spent her whole life pursuing a deeper understanding of the natural world. Whether in or out of uniform, she loves nothing more than learning about Tennessee's incredible biodiversity and sharing that knowledge with others. She travels statewide leading hikes, giving presentations and assisting with events, all with the goal of connecting the public to the incredible natural resources our state has to offer.
March 2023
Nashville Lawn and Garden Show
The Fairgrounds Nashville - Expo Center, 500 Wedgewood Ave, Nashville, TN, 37204 Map
Public Welcome Paid Event Free Event Wheelchair Accessible Public Restroom Drinking Fountains
The Nashville Lawn & Garden show is a four-day event help in Expo Hall at the Nashville Fairgrounds. Our chapter will again share a double booth with the Tennessee Invasive Plant Council, the Tennessee Naturalist Program, and the Tennessee Native Plant Society. We will need lots of volunteers to staff our booth, so please make a note of the dates. Signup information will be available soon. The event is free for volunteers. Non-volunteers will need to purchase tickets.
Nashville Weed Wrangle
Various Locations
Public Welcome Free Event
Started by the Garden Club of Nashville several years ago, Weed Wrangle has now become a nationwide event for removing invasive plants. Follow the link below to Hands on Nashville where you can select the Weed Wrangle site where you would like to volunteer. Volunteer times vary by location.
Native Gardening at Westmeade Elementary School
Westmeade Elementary School, 6641 Clearbrook Dr, Nashville, TN, 37205 Map
Public Welcome Family Friendly Free Event Hands-On/How-To Workshop Free Public Parking
Our chapter maintains the native plants gardens at Westmeade Elementary School in Nashville. If you want to join in on the fun, please send an email to [email protected] to get your email address added to our distribution list to be informed of start times, weather cancellations, etc.
Wild Ones Book Club Meeting
Online/Virtual
Public Welcome Free Event Chapter Meeting
We will continue reading The Forest Unseen by David Haskell. This time we will discuss the chapters starting with February 2nd through March 13th (Footprints through Helatica).
Open to everyone. Registration required.
Swan Conservation Trust Invasive Plant Removal
(35.501158, -87.372180)
Public Welcome Free Event Hands-On/How-To Workshop Free Public Parking Lots of Physical Activity
Our chapter will once again be partnering with the Swan Conservation Trust to remove invasive plants -- mostly Chinese Privet -- at one of their new properties that help protect the headwaters of Big Swan Creek. We will meet at 10 AM on Big Swan Creek Road near Summertown, TN for this event. There is limited parking at the site, so we may need to meet at a nearby location and carpool to the worksite. Please register for the event so we can track how many are coming. Weed wrenches and other tools will be available, but you are welcome to bring whatever you have that might be useful
The GPS coordinates of the worksite are (35.501168, -87.372187).
Informal Chat Meeting
Online/Virtual
Public Welcome Free Event Chapter Meeting
Have a question about using native plants in your yard? Have some comments or pictures you want to share? Join us for an informal discussion about native plants and any related topics. Everyone is welcome.
WOMT Board Meeting
Online/Virtual
Public Welcome Free Event Chapter Board Meeting
Wild Ones Middle Tennessee Chapter board meetings are open to the public.Zoom Link
Native Gardening at Westmeade Elementary School
Westmeade Elementary School, 6641 Clearbrook Dr, Nashville, TN, 37205 Map
Public Welcome Family Friendly Free Event Hands-On/How-To Workshop Free Public Parking
Our chapter maintains the native plants gardens at Westmeade Elementary School in Nashville. If you want to join in on the fun, please send an email to [email protected] to get your email address added to our distribution list to be informed of start times, weather cancellations, etc.
March Chapter Meeting
Online/Virtual
Public Welcome Free Event Chapter Meeting Program/Speaker Presentation
Richard Hitt will give a presentation on Wasps: An Under-appreciated Pollinator
After a brief discussion of the very close evolutionary relationship among wasps, bees, and ants, the presentation will cover the difficulties that can arise in trying to understand wasps as a group. He will share his experience in using technology and citizen science projects to allow amateurs, like Richard, to make decent identifications, usually up to genus and often to species, of these fascinating creatures and show up in our native gardens.
Richard is the founding president of our chapter. He was certified in 2013 as a Tennessee Naturalist -- a program that he says, "Changed my life."
Additional details and a Read More link coming soon.
Tennessee Plant Conservation Alliance Conference
Social Lodge at Sewanee, 291 Georgia Ave, Sewanee, TN, 37375 Map
Live Stream Available
Public Welcome Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation Group Tour Nature Walk/Hike Conference/Symposium Public Restroom Free Public Parking Drinking Fountains
This year’s meeting of the Tennessee Plant Conservation Alliance will be at the Social Lodge at Sewanee: University of the South and will feature presentations about on-the-ground rare plant conservation projects. After a break for lunch and networking, Sewanee botanist, Dr. Jon Evans, will lead a guided hike at Shakerag Hollow.
April 2023
Native Gardening at Westmeade Elementary School
Westmeade Elementary School, 6641 Clearbrook Dr, Nashville, TN, 37205 Map
Public Welcome Family Friendly Free Event Hands-On/How-To Workshop Free Public Parking
Our chapter maintains the native plants gardens at Westmeade Elementary School in Nashville. If you want to join in on the fun, please send an email to [email protected] to get your email address added to our distribution list to be informed of start times, weather cancellations, etc.
Informal Chat Meeting
Online/Virtual
Public Welcome Free Event Chapter Meeting
Have a question about using native plants in your yard? Have some comments or pictures you want to share? Join us for an informal discussion about native plants and any related topics. Everyone is welcome.
May 2023
Plant ID Hike at Flat Rock SNA
Flat Rock Cedar Glades and Barrens SNA, Factory Rd, TN, 37130 Map
Public Welcome Free Event Nature Walk/Hike Free Public Parking
We will meet at 9:30 AM CDT in the parking lot of Flat Rock Cedar Glades and Barrens State Natural Area. There will be an option to do a 4.5-mile loop or a shorter 2-mile loop trail.
Native Plant Sale
Owl's Hill Nature Sanctuary, 545 Beech Creek Road, Brentwood, TN, 37027 Map
Public Welcome Family Friendly Free Event Seed/Plant Sale Public Restroom Free Public Parking
Wild Ones Middle Tennessee Chapter and Owl's Hill Nature Sanctuary will have their joint native plant sale on Saturday, May 20, 2023, from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM CDT. Online ordering for pickup on Friday, May 19, will be available during the week of May 8. Check back here for more details in late April.
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2023 Division of Natural Areas Events
2023 Tennessee Native Plant Society- Hikes