Events

In this special collaboration, Robin Wall Kimmerer, author, botanist, and founder of Plant Baby Plant, joins youth leader and Nurture Natives founder Esther Bonney for an intergenerational conversation about belonging, reciprocity, and native plant action. 

Together, they will explore questions such as:

How do we create opportunities for young people to have a voice and feel empowered, even when they are not homeowners or decision makers?What kinds of relationships and mentorships help people stay engaged in native plant work over decades?Why do stories, shared practices, and community invitations matter just as much as plant lists?

Robin and Esther will reflect on what invites people into this work, what keeps them here, and what elders and youth have to teach each other.

Our upcoming webinar with Basil Camu explores practical, evidence based ways to heal suburban and urban landscapes by working with trees, soil, and natural systems, drawing on real world practices from Leaf & Limb and community centered models for restoring life where we live, work, and play.!  

We are pleased to offer a webinar to be presented by garden coach and consultant Concetta Gibson, President of the Wild Ones Delmarva Chapter, to discuss choosing and using beneficial native plants that look attractive at your home and neighborhood. Topics will include what to consider with regard to soil types and local environment when designing plant bed layouts, the advantages of native species and nativars, and container and small space gardening options. There will be a question-and-answer period at the end of her presentation, so you are encouraged to prepare your questions whether general and/or specific regarding the conditions of your garden space for Ms. Gibson to answer.

ZOOM LINK:

https://wildones-org.zoom.us/j/87221880894?pwd=AyJuCu4ga2PHAUVE4hMboizpOrkHgh.1

Co-hosted by Wild Ones New York Metro Region and Wild Ones Delmarva

Zoom link to join

We are pleased to offer a webinar to be presented by garden coach and consultant Concetta Gibson, President of the Wild Ones Delmarva Chapter, to discuss choosing and using beneficial native plants that look attractive at your home and neighborhood. Topics will include what to consider with regard to soil types and local environment when designing plant bed layouts, the advantages of native species and nativars, and container and small space gardening options. There will be a question-and-answer period at the end of her presentation, so you are encouraged to prepare your questions whether general and/or specific regarding the conditions of your garden space for Ms. Gibson to answer.

Bio:

Concetta Gibson is the founder and owner of Leaf & Bed, an Eastern Shore small business on the Delmarva Peninsula, that provides garden design, coaching, consulting, and native plant sourcing. She brings her experience as a former earth and environmental science teacher and nonprofit professional to support gardeners in Maryland and beyond, with special focus areas in ecology, planting in containers, and accessible and adaptable gardening. Concetta holds certifications as a Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional (CBLP) and in Permaculture Design, certified by the Permaculture Institute of North America, she teaches garden courses part-time at Chesapeake College, and is a co-founder and President of the Delmarva Chapter of Wild Ones, a national nonprofit focused on promoting native plants and sustainable gardening.

Agenda/table of contents:

Why use native plants and setting yourself up for success

Environmental conditions: Right plant, right place, right fit

Horizontal, vertical spaces, and containers

Personal style

Researching, choosing, and sourcing responsibly

Basic layout creation: paper and digital option

Join Joey Santore, creator of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t, for a candid Wild Ones National Webinar examining how inherited garden aesthetics shape native plant landscapes. Drawing on field experience and real ecology, Joey challenges tidy design norms and explores why dense, irregular plant communities are often the most resilient and ecologically sound.

Getting to know you zoom.  Hoping to allow people to meet the leaders and brainstorm ideas for the group.

Westbury High School is creating a native garden to compliment their food garden. This prep day will be in support of their main event on Earth Week, Thursday, April 23rd. 

This garden will be facing Jerusalem ave with high visibility from the street. It’s a great opportunity to show our neighbors that they can have a native garden too. 

We ask for volunteers to help us clean and mulch the space to the main event, when all students and parents will be present to help planting. 

Agatha Martello from More Than Gardens will be co-hosting this event and will answer questions on food gardens, native plants and ecological landscaping practices. 

We hope to see you there. 

Help grow our native plant garden at Bush Terminal Piers Park. Tools provided. We will be adding cardboard and mulch for weed suppression as we convert even more turf to pollinator garden. 

To celebrate Earth Week, Westbury High School will host a native and food garden planting this Thursday. We are creating a pocket meadow right in front of the school, visible from the road for all our neighbors to see. The pocket meadow will come with an organic food garden right next to it that will provide for our community and teach students about nature and their relationship with it.

There will be planting, plant sales to support the project, and talks about the space and its importance for the environment.

Prep day was a success last Saturday, and now we invite everyone to join the students and support them on their new journey of welcoming birds and pollinators into our shared spaces. Together, we are creating more than safe spaces for nature in our city, we are building a strong community that supports each other.

I hope to see you there. If you have any questions, please call or text me at 516-500-3135 or email [email protected].

Thank you.

Agatha Martello
WildOnes
Community Leader for TOBAY

Join award-winning author, photographer, and educator Rick Darke for What Is Wild and Why It Matters, a free national webinar on Tuesday, April 28th at 10 am CT. Discover how inviting a bit of authentic wildness can create a vibrant landscape that sustains you and local biodiversity. This national event is presented in collaboration between Wild Ones and Homegrown National Park.

The botanist Zihao Wang will be leading a walk through the park.

We will be spreading milkweed seeds throughout the park

Guided tour of their native gardens and a stop by LINPI and its native plants

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon!