Chapter Events

Help maintain the native planting in front of the giraffe exhibit installed in partnership with Wild Ones.  Please arrive on time, as we need to be let into the zoo before open hours. Bring a water bottle, gloves, and garden hand tools.

Lindsey Spaulding of Spaulding Restorations will talk about using native plants as a solution to problem  areas on your property. 

Tour the native gardens designed and maintained by Wild Ones members. We will meet in the parking lot of the Potawatomi Zoo at 9am to see the native garden surrounding the giraffe exhibit. Afterwards we will walk over to the Potawatomi Conservatories to see the demonstration garden that Wild Ones South Bend installed last year. Asa Wood, designer of both gardens, will be our guide. Please be on time as we need to be let into the zoo before open hours.

Matt Meersman, President of the Friends of the St. Joe River Association, will join us to talk about our local watershed!

Aaron Sawatsky-Kingsley, Goshen City Forester and  Environmental Resilience Department Lead, will join us to chat about Goshen's efforts to support community native trees. 

Lindsey Spaulding will lead a drop in tour of Milkweed Commons's native garden.

Dr. Cortwright of Indiana University South Bend will join us to chat about our local amphibians.

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon! 

Presenter: Indiana's State Botanist, Scott Namestneck

Details coming soon!