Events Archive: 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Upcoming Events
August 2025
Midwest Native Plant Society Native Plant & Artisan Sale
Bergamo Center for Lifelong Learning, 5500 Shakertown Rd, Beavercreek, OH, 45430 Map
Volunteers Needed Public Welcome Free Event Public Restroom Free Public Parking Drinking Fountains
Shop the sale featuring many native plant sellars, growers, exhibitors and artists.
Opportunity to assist the chapter to staff a welcome table along with Dayton Wild Ones. You may handout Wild Ones materials, and information about your specific chapter. Volunteers working 2-3 hour shifts have the opportunity to attend breakout sessions. Contact your chapter or email [email protected].
Monarch Butterflies: From Mexico to Your Backyard
Public Welcome Registration Required Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation Wheelchair Accessible Public Restroom Free Public Parking Drinking Fountains
As long time monarch enthusiasts, Mark and Nan recently visited two Monarch Butterfly overwintering sites, Sierra Chincua and El Rosario, in the Oyamel Fir forests located in Central Mexico. They will speak about their experience, using photos from their trip, and will give us an update of the monarch’s status as well as some interesting thoughts on the future (and past) of the monarch butterfly and what actions we as gardeners can take to help them thrive.
Mark and Nan Plunkett are trained Master Gardener Volunteers and members of the horticulture volunteer team at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. Both have completed master’s degrees in Biology with a focus on local conservation from Miami University. As enthusiastic home gardeners, they enjoy not only the plants in the gardens they have created but love how these stationary, rooted plants actually move through the wings of the insects and birds they attract.
September 2025
Free Webinar: "EcoBeneficial Landscape Strategies for the Climate Crisis" with Kim Eierman
Hosted by Wild Ones NationalOnline/Virtual
Public Welcome Recording Available Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation
Discover how ecological landscaping with native plants can make your landscape more resilient and help address the climate crisis. This webinar will highlight practical, evidence-based approaches to designing and maintaining landscapes that build resilience to climate change and support native biodiversity. Join Wild Ones for a free webinar, “EcoBeneficial Landscape Strategies for the Climate Crisis,” featuring environmental horticulturalist and ecological landscape designer Kim Eierman.
October 2025
October Wild Ones National Webinar with Doug Tallamy
Hosted by Wild Ones NationalOnline/Virtual
Public Welcome Recording Available Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation
Details coming soon!
November 2025
November Wild Ones National Webinar with Larry Weaner
Hosted by Wild Ones NationalOnline/Virtual
Public Welcome Recording Available Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation
Details coming soon!