Events

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.

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.

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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.

Wild Ones Middle Tennessee Chapter board meetings are open to the public.Zoom Link

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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 Middle Tennessee Chapter board meetings are open to the public.Zoom Link

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.

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.

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.

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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.

Lawn & Garden Show

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.

Hands on Nashville Weed Wrangle Signup

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.

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.

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).

Map of Destination

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.

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Wild Ones Middle Tennessee Chapter board meetings are open to the public.Zoom Link

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.