Chapters in Maryland

Join President Nan Wray and Board Member Katie Garvey to explore the Spring Ephemeral Garden at the Irvine Nature Center.

This will be a slow, casual walk through an area they have planted with many spring ephemerals, which are typically low growing as they provide nectar for newly emerging native bees!

Bring your close-up camera lens if you are a shutter bug, and stay on should you wish to explore more of this vast nature preserve. Admission is free.

This event has sold out. Email [email protected] to be added to the waitlist. 

Help us share native plants!

Bring your bare root or potted plant in commercially bought soil and go home with new plants. 

You do not need to contribute in order to participate. 

Please see this form to register and for more details on safely sharing plants!

https://forms.gle/1HL2m4Q7Sd8KzVmQA

Email us with any questions at [email protected]

Come all tall and small Good Earthlings to celebrate A "Good Earth" Day! Join us in our side parking lot for vendors and hands-on fun. We will have tons of activities for kids and adults:

Global Wines- Organic Wine Tasting (inside)
Back Porch Coffee Co.- Fresh roasted coffee pour overs
Wild Ones Chesapeake Bay Chapter - Dedicating the new front garden
Anchored Roots Farm- Regenerative Flower Farm
Make Your Own Pinch Pot for Kids- with artist Sarah Houde
Butterfly Walk Mascot- Molly the Monarch
Sunward CSA- Regenerative Agriculture
Start Your Own Seeds for Kids- with Valerie Deptula
King's Rest Farm- Regenerative Agriculture
Plein Air will be painting live!
Deez L'town Bees- Pollination & Beekeeping Demo
And More!!!

To become an Earth Day vendor please message [email protected]

To volunteer during our workdays in early April to renovate and plant the new native pollinator garden, contact [email protected]

April weather can be fickle, so if it rains, we will be cancelling with no rain date.

Greater Frederick Maryland Wild Ones is part of Team Frederick and will be planning for and participating in the annual City Nature Challenge over this four day period. 

Learn how to use iNaturalist and document the wildlife in our county. 

Check back to find out details about our specific events. 

Information and resources can be found at the Mobilize Frederick website at:

https://www.mobilizefrederick.org/city-nature-challenge

This is the first of 3 tours of this property in 2026 giving us an opportunity to see the garden change throughout the seasons. Be on the lookout for additional tours on July 11th and October 3rd.

This woodland residential garden is in the busier area of Howard county, but the property is adjacent to a county recognized green space/wildlife corridor featuring many naturally occurring native spring ephemerals like Mayapples, Jack in the Pulpits and Spring Beauties. This garden, which has been certified as a Demonstration Garden under Howard County’s BayWise program and is also Bee City Certified by the County, features a 100+ years old specimen white oak, a professionally installed raingarden, a permeable parking pad, a native “lawn” with no turf grass anywhere on the property, a pond for the aquatic wildlife, and flagstone walkways snaking through the entire yard. It is also recognized by National Wildlife Federation as a Wildlife Habitat and serves as a Monarch Waystation with its diversity of native plants that sustain the bees, butterflies, moths, etc. Among the prized natives, there also are plenty of non-natives that the owners continue to eradicate.

**Members receive advanced access to register for events with limited space. If space is available, registration will open to the public 4-5 weeks prior to the event.

This event has sold out. Email [email protected] to be added to the waitlist.