Chapter Events

Jennifer Ehlert, co-director of design at Metro Blooms, offers tips for creating a bee lawn, and the Lawns to Legumes grant process.

Jessica Savage, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at UMD, will talk about how deciduous plants deal with our seasonal climate and why timing (phenology) matters, along with the work that volunteers are doing to document seasonal changes in the Twin Ports through her citizen science program.

Planning meeting for Spring - Fall.

Wild Ones tabling event.

Kurt Mead, the Interpretive Naturalist at Tettegouche State Park, will talk about dragonflies in Minnesota and elsewhere, touching on the basic life histories of dragonflies (and their cousin, the damselflies). He is the author of “Dragonflies of the North Woods”.

St. Louis County Extension Service and Master Gardeners Spring event.

Wild Ones tabling event.

Julia Vanatta, Twin Cities MN Wild Ones member, will offer tips and techniques for managing our gardens and best practices for sharing plants to guard against unwanted guests. 

Community education class (two evening sessions, one each week), presented in partnership with Wild Ones - Arrowhead Chapter, Duluth Monarch Buddies, and Duluth Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area.

Planning meeting for plant sale, planting at demonstration garden, summer yard tours and Fall meetings.

Spring clean up at our native plant demonstration garden, help spread compost.

Join other members to learn to identify plants.

Arrowhead chapter's fundraiser selling our own native plants; dig, pot & label your plants, and help sell them at our Wild Ones table.  Native plant information will be available.

Event sponsored by Duluth Monarch Buddies, of which several Arrowhead Chapter members are also members.

Plant sale with milkweed and other native pollinator plants
• Resources on plants and gardening for monarch butterflies 
• Children’s activities • Monarch-themed merchandise for sale • Tour the butterfly garden

Private yard, plus a new community garden.

Plant new native plants in our Leif Erickson native demonstration garden.

Tours of two residential yards, plus Rusty Patch Natives local plant vendor.

Shoreview Natives is a local grower/vendor of native plants.

An end of the season plant sale will also be available for those who attend.

 Finalize plans for Fall meetings.

Panel discussing garden maintenance, cover crops, bee lawn, seed saving, & journaling. 

Bring empty envelopes & your dry seeds in containers labeled with name, color, soil type, sunlight needs, etc.

Film: Urban & Suburban Meadows. (DVD)
Michael Nadeau, Larry Weaner and Neil Diboll, highly regarded experts in meadow/prairie establishment discuss site preparation, design, planting and maintenance. Doug Tallamy talks about the native plant, native insect connection.

Chapter election before program.

Join Xerces Society pollinator conservation biologist Sarah Foltz Jordan for an engaging exploration of insect behavior, with an emphasis on the many similarities between insects and ourselves. From leaf-cutter bees to lacewings, insects are parents, siblings, homemakers, lovers, community members, and innovators. Like us, they can be resourceful, insightful, playful, discouraged, determined, and prone to copy their peers. As we continue to energize more people to act on behalf of insects, these similarities matter. The stories and struggles of insects can help inspire more interest, admiration, concern, and ultimately action for these essential animals.