Chapters in Michigan

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

This EVENING event will feature a Naturally Beautiful Yard in New Boston and is open to all Chapter Members and also non-members.  Non-members and anyone wishing to Car Pool are asked to Register using the button below. 

The address of the yard will be communicated to both members and registered non-members approximately 48 hours before the event.

If you are bringing children, please ensure they respect the gardens and their inhabitants.

Natalie's Yard in New Boston - 48164 (7:00pm)

What began as a desire to avoid mowing an acre of lawn has grown into a thriving re-wilded landscape. Explore expanding prairie plantings, bluebird habitat, vegetable gardens, and a small farm where native plants help support wildlife, pollinators, and a healthy food web.

Accessibility:  The road is gravel, the driveway is gravel, and the backyard may have free ranging chicken droppings.

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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.

Join the Wild Ones Red Cedar Chapter on a guided tour of Bunker Hill Nature Preserve led by Jared Hamon, of Mid-Michigan Land Conservancy. This 130 acre preserve boasts forest, native prairie, wetlands, and grasslands. The beautiful property supports dozens of species of native wildflowers and over 170 species of birds have been observed here. 

This event is free and open to the public (dogs are not allowed on this trail).

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

This day's tour will feature a Phenomenal yard in Plymouth AND a curated tour of some of the Plymouth Pollinator Gardens, and is open to all Chapter Members and also non-members.  Non-members and anyone wishing to Car Pool are asked to Register using the button below. 

The address of each yard will be communicated to both members and registered non-members approximately 48 hours before the event.

If you are bringing children, please ensure they respect the gardens and their inhabitants.

Carly's Yard in Plymouth - 48170 (1:00pm)

What started with a simple question—“Where have all the butterflies gone?”—grew into a decade-long passion and a community movement. Visit the home garden that sparked it all, along with two thriving public pollinator gardens that inspired nearly 20 more across Plymouth. 

Accessibility:   The gardens can be viewed from paved surfaces.  

Parking: There is limited parking in the driveway and the hosts are checking with with the City of Plymouth for street parking permission on the day.  Otherwise, depending on the number of people that attend, folks may have to park on the next block and head over to the house.

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Lions Club Park  (2:00pm)

Burroughs St and Harding St, Plymouth, MI 48170

Accessibility:   ADA Compliant Public Park

Fire Station Park in Old Village (2:30pm)

N. Holbrook St. and E. Spring St, Plymouth, MI 48170

Accessibility:   ADA Compliant Public Park

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.

Join the Wild Ones Mid-Mitten chapter and Little Forks Conservancy for a hike in Three Ponds, a Little Forks nature preserve. We will highlight both the native species as well as the non-native species and the work to remove the latter. Meet at 2739 W North Union Rd, Midland, MI 48642 

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This program is brought to you by the Wild Ones Mid-Mitten Chapter, part of a member-based national organization whose mission promotes environmentally-sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration, and establishment of native plant communities. The Mid-Mitten Chapter is based in Midland, Bay, Saginaw, and Isabella counties. It meets monthly typically on the second Monday, and welcomes new members. For more information go to @midmittenwildones.

Purchasing our 4.5 acres of property outside of Ann Arbor, three years ago, was an opportunity for our family to work towards reconciliation ecology. Our land will never be what it was in the pre-European settlement era, because of historical patterns, current use, climate change, and invasive species; but it can be a wonderful place for us to live and be a natural habitat for many, many species going forward. The property we steward has a mix of sandy, low nutrient soil in the east, and a wetland area (historical remnant since at least 1940) at the lower west side. It has been benignly neglected for at least the last 30 years after serving as a home site/yard and a farm. Many woody and herbaceous invasives had become abundant, often dominant.  We have a lot of deer in the area, so ongoing deer browse is a major challenge.

A tour of Kevin’s property highlights the challenges of managing invasive plants on a larger scale while making realistic choices for the introduction and/or re-introduction, of native trees, shrubs, grasses and forbs. This complex process is often made more challenging when there is high pressure from browsing deer. Kevin has taken up the challenge and has developed some informed strategies to win the battle and claim the wet meadow and wooded upland for a greater diversity of species.

Parking along W. Delhi Road. Gather at the foot of the drive. There will be bugs, including ticks. Come prepared.