We serve Nassau, Suffolk, and New York City’s boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. We are involved in a wide array of projects covering this vast area, from a proposed tree and plant ordinance for the Town of Hempstead to restoration work at Bush Terminal in Brooklyn, to working with schools in both Long Island and Brooklyn and many things in between and beyond.
Wild Ones is a national non-profit organization with local chapters that promote the many benefits of landscaping using native plants such as wildflowers, shrubs, trees, and grasses. Native plants are those which were growing here before European settlement and are important to sustain the wildlife that also calls this area home. Native plants thrive in our environment which they have adapted to over thousands of years and thus need little assistance from us to flourish. Click here for more information about the national organization.
Our vision for the future is to be the recognized voice for native plants and sustainable landscaping in our region by promoting increased use of native plantings that create living landscapes through grassroots efforts by example, education, marketing, and personalized support.
If you are looking for any of this information please join us at our next event and consider joining Wild Ones. If you would like to help us in planning events and providing these services please contact us so we can start getting to know you and utilizing your skills.
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If you would like to help make a difference in your community through ecological gardening practices consider joining Wild Ones as a member. Membership dues help to maintain our chapter finances and for educational materials like printing handouts and make displays and all the supplies to run plant sales.
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>> REVIEW OUR PROPOSED TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD ORDINANCE <<
We were invited by the Town of Hempstead Supervisor, Donald Clavin, to write a tree and plant ordinance. We delivered a 61-page proposal.
