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**All meetings begin at 6:30PM at Adams Wildlife Sanctuary unless otherwise noted**
February
9 – Monthly Meeting: Layne Knoche
March
9 – Monthly Meeting: Vern Kleen
18 – Field Trip: 3Bs Native Plants
April
13 – Monthly Meeting: Plant Sale Preparations (no guest speaker)
15 – Field Trip: Merwin Nature Preserve, Lexington, IL, @ 9:00 AM (sign up)
20 – Jens Jensen film, “The Living Green,” at the Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL (Details coming soon!)
22 – Field Trip: Auburn Township Park, Auburn, IL (sign up)
29 – Field Trip: tour with Kevin Veara, Edinburg, IL, @ 10:00 AM (sign up)
May
**No meeting!
12 – Plant sale set-up @ Fairgrounds
13 – Plant sale @ Fairgrounds
June
2-4 – THE GREAT GARDENS CONFERENCE “Natives, Meadows & Prairies”, Hannibal, MO
8 – Monthly Meeting: Janet Schroeder, Creating a Wildflower Inventory
16– Field Trip: Red Oak Rain Garden (sign-up)
24– Field Trip: Patty Morton’s garden (sign-up)
July
13 – Monthly Meeting: Joel Horwedel, Potluck, 5:30PM @ Lincoln Memorial Garden
August
10 – Monthly Meeting: Chris Benda
September
14 – Monthly Meeting: Annual Meeting Preparations
29-1 – Annual Statewide Gathering
October
12 – Monthly Meeting: TBA
November
9 – Monthly Meeting: Sarah Lindholm
December
14 – Holiday Gathering: details TBA
Central Chapter Field Trips
Do you know of a great place in central Illinois for a field trip? Have you worked hard restoring your own prairie or woodland and would love to show it off? Please contact Lois Fox with suggestions for field trips –
Even if it’s a place we’ve visited before, we love to return to our favorite spots to see what’s new!
Here are some of the types of places that make great INPS field trips:
- Hidden gems – places off the beaten path that aren’t well known
- Private properties that are member-owned or that we could be granted access to
- Restored prairies, wetlands, and woodlands
- State parks, nature centers, and wildlife sanctuaries
- Research and collection centers
- Arboretums and botanical gardens
- Places of historical interest to botanists
Old favorites that you missed visiting before or would love to see again! Please email me any and all suggestions. No place is too big or too small. If you would love to see it, someone else would too!
Contact Trish Quintenz at TrishQuintenz@gmail.com or call (217) 971-1615 for more information.
