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Butterflies Day
Mar 14, 2024 6:00PM—7:00PM
MARCH 14 IS BUTTERFLIES DAY Did you know Ohio is home to about 140 species of butterflies and nearly 500 species of native bees? March is the perfect time to learn how to help them thrive this summer. Discover Ohio’s wild butterflies and bees and how to help them flourish. Enjoy music, art, lawn and garden…
View MoreNative Plant Month Speaker Series: Seed Banking for Restoration – How to get Involved in Northeast Ohio’s Seed Banking Movement.
Apr 04, 2024 6:00PM—7:00PM
The Wilderness Center 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689
RegisterKimberly Lessman: “Seed Banking for Restoration: How to Get Involved in Northeast Ohio’s Seed Banking Movement” Holden Forests & Gardens is teaming up with partners in our region to collect, store, and redistribute native seeds of local ecotype to support restoration projects in Northeast Ohio and beyond. Learn the basics of collecting native seeds and…
View MoreSave Ohio Bees: Make a Difference Day
Oct 28, 2023 4:00PM—5:00PM
Virtual- Save Ohio Bees
Join Save Ohio Bees for their Make a Difference Day on Saturday, October 28th at 4:00 pm! It’s now revamped, virtual, and more inclusive! Discover native bees & bats, music, art, special guests, and a free gift for the first 25 RSVPs! Only $5 / Restores pollinator habitat + creates seed grants! Register with Save…
View MoreEnvironmental Investigators: Buzzing with the Bees
Aug 19, 2023 2:00PM—3:00PM
The Wilderness Center 9877 Alabama Ave Wilmot, OH 44689
Join us on this family-friendly program to learn about those buzzing friends, bees. Come learn about the importance of these busy pollinator friends. You will become familiar with how bees do their job and what goes on in those bee hives. Even see our beehive up close in a safe way. Environmental Investigators is…
View MoreNative Bees
Jun 03, 2023 11:00AM—12:00PM
The Wilderness Center 9877 Alabama Ave Wilmot, OH 44689
Join Save Ohio Bees™ founder, Tracy Teuscher for a family-friendly presentation about native bees and how to help them thrive in your own backyard, school, or urban garden. Tracy is a certified ecotherapist and an Ohio certified volunteer naturalist. Please register for this free program. Visit Save Ohio Bees’ booth at Nature Fest on Saturday,…
View MorePlanting For Pollinators
May 13, 2023 10:30AM
The Wilderness Center 9877 Alabama Ave Wilmot, OH 44689
A part of our free Come Grow with Us Series. Join us for a talk about planting for pollinators. Presentation by Jill Halligan, Portage County OSU Extension. Jill is passionate about native gardening, wildlife and protecting our pollinators. Long before joining the educational team at OSU Extension, she has been serving as a Master Gardener…
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