Events

Members can look forward to Member-to-Member Garden Yard Tours throughout the growing season!

This month's event will feature two yards in Livonia.

 Member-to-Member (M2M) yard visits (aka Show Me-Tell Me) allow members to share experiences, ideas, and challenges with maintaining native plants in our landscapes. These tours help members & invited guests to learn about different natives and enjoy conversations with other native plant enthusiasts.

The location for each visit will be communicated to all members prior to the visit.

Rosann Kovalcik has been watching birds since she was a teenager, when she was introduced to the hobby by Lake Shore High School biology teachers.  Kovalcik lives in Grosse Pointe Woods and has owned a Wild Birds Unlimited Nature Shop there for thirty-three years.  Rosann has been “Bringing People & Nature Together” in a variety
of ways, leading bird walks at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, and donating feeders and bird food at Lake St. Clair Metro Park in Harrison Township and Whitefish Point Bird Observatory in Paradise, fostering the enjoyment of watching birds in those places.  Rosann also recently donated and installed a Bluebird House trail on Belle Isle.
Rosann’s interest in creating native gardens for birds began in 2000, when she transformed her yard into a certified wildlife habitat, where 139 species of birds have been observed.

“Berries, Bugs & Snags” is a presentation that was created by Kovalcik to educate about the
importance of each of these elements within our environment as they relate to the survival of birds.  Rosann was inspired by watching birds in their natural habitats, and realizing that the depletion of those habitats has been the single largest cause of bird population decline.  In 2019, scientists documented North America’s staggering loss of nearly 3 billion breeding birds since 1970. As gardeners, we can restore bird habitat and have a positive effect on bird survival.

In this presentation, Kovalcik teaches what birds need in the form of food during their migrations and for their young in nesting season, and what a snag is and how this element within your landscape can be ornamental for you and essential for birds.  She has given this presentation to gardening and civic groups around the state on fifty occasions.

Discover how ecological landscaping with native plants can make your landscape more resilient and help address the climate crisis. This webinar will highlight practical, evidence-based approaches to designing and maintaining landscapes that build resilience to climate change and support native biodiversity. Join Wild Ones for a free webinar, “EcoBeneficial Landscape Strategies for the Climate Crisis,” featuring environmental horticulturalist and ecological landscape designer Kim Eierman.

The mission of the WOWC Seeds to Community program is to create connections with people and nature through the process of growing native plants from seed. The program is driven through community engagement in collection, germination and cultivation workshops.

WOWC Seeds to Community events require planning and community engagement. Join each third Thursday of the month to be a part of the year-round community initiative of growing native plants from seed.

This September meeting will include discussion on:

Seed Collection Opportunities

Monthly Seed Collection Watch Communications

Seed Cleaning Event Planning

Seed Storage Planning

Collaborative Efforts with S2C Washtenaw

Program Donations

Members will receive invite and Zoom link via email. Reach out to Derek Shaffer or [email protected] with questions.

Details coming soon! 

The mission of the WOWC Seeds to Community program is to create connections with people and nature through the process of growing native plants from seed. The program is driven through community engagement in collection, germination and cultivation workshops.

WOWC Seeds to Community events require planning and community engagement. Join each third Thursday of the month to be a part of the year-round community initiative of growing native plants from seed.

This October meeting will include discussion on:

Seed Cleaning Event Planning

Collaborative Efforts with S2C Washtenaw

Seed Storage Planning

Program Donations

Members will receive invite and Zoom link via email. Reach out to Derek Shaffer or [email protected] with questions.

Details coming soon! 

The mission of the WOWC Seeds to Community program is to create connections with people and nature through the process of growing native plants from seed. The program is driven through community engagement in collection, germination and cultivation workshops.

WOWC Seeds to Community events require planning and community engagement. Join each third Thursday of the month to be a part of the year-round community initiative of growing native plants from seed.

This November meeting will include discussion on:

Winter Sowing Workshop Planning

Seed Data Updates

Collaborative Efforts with S2C Washtenaw

Program Donations

Members will receive invite and Zoom link via email. Reach out to Derek Shaffer or [email protected] with questions.

The mission of the WOWC Seeds to Community program is to create connections with people and nature through the process of growing native plants from seed. The program is driven through community engagement in collection, germination and cultivation workshops.

WOWC Seeds to Community events require planning and community engagement. Join each third Thursday of the month to be a part of the year-round community initiative of growing native plants from seed.

This December meeting will include discussion on:

Winter Sowing Workshop Planning

Seed Data Updates

Program Donations

Members will receive invite and Zoom link via email. Reach out to Derek Shaffer or [email protected] with questions.