December Monmouth Member’s Meeting

Unitarian Universalist Congregation Building 1475 West Front Street, Lincroft, New Jersey, United States

Holiday Celebration: Seed Swap, Garden Gift Raffle, Year-In-Review, 2023 Plans, and Garden Wisdom Exchange Let's get together and get to know each other better! Come join us to celebrate our Monmouth Chapter's first holiday season with snacks, drinks, and finger-foods. We'll have native plant seeds to share for winter sowing, and we'll raffle off fun ... Read more

Bergen-Passaic Year in Review

The Year in Review Wednesday, December 14, 7:30 p.m. We return to Zoom meetings for the winter months with a participatory program led by chapter co-leaders Tom, Vicky, and Elaine. Come prepared with photos to share (take them now!), successes to boast about, and questions to ask. Sign up at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81333280725?pwd=NHhkd2VkWGxOcHJubzE2MUFqekQwZz09

Native Plants and Water Management – Starting in Our Own Backyards

Learn how to beautify your property with colorful, native plants that attract butterflies and birds while also doing your part to mitigate local flooding and waterway pollution. Randi will talk about the importance of stormwater management starting in your own backyards and elaborate on the benefits of using native plants to aid in water management.

Spring Into Native Plants: A Seed-Planting Workshop

Monmouth County Library - Eastern Branch 1001 Rte. 35, Shrewsbury, New Jersey, United States

**Update - A second class has been added: February 4th @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Randi Eckel, Ph.D, Toadshade Wildflower Farm, President NPSNJ Learn techniques and tricks for growing native perennial plants from seed. Randi will discuss seed dormancy, scarification, stratification, and other special seed treatments sometimes needed to coax seeds to grow. Each ... Read more

Sussex Chapter February Meeting

The first Sussex Chapter Meeting of 2023 will be a 7 pm Zoom meeting before resuming in-person meetings again. Sharon Wander's program "Barking up the Right Tree" will include information on planting for wildlife.

Jersey-Friendly Yards Resident Certification Program

Speakers: Karen Walzer works as the Public Outreach Coordinator for the Barnegat Bay Partnership, a National Estuary Program working to protect and restore clean water and healthy wildlife habitat in the Barnegat Bay watershed. Karen helped to create and now manages the content for Jersey-Friendly Yards, a website with resources and tools that New Jersey property owners can ... Read more

In-Person 2023 Annual Meeting Tickets

Gateway Building Ocean County College 1 College Drive, Toms River, NJ, United States

Make sure to hit the + sign to add a ticket! Until then, registration may appear blocked. Visit the college website for a campus map; Gateway is building #101 on the map. When you arrive on campus, follow the blue directional signs to parking lots 3 or 4. 

$75.00

Pruning Workshop

Cape May Court House

Join us for a special Pruning Workshop with Duncan Welch, co-owner of Goshen Gardens, a permaculture farm and nursery in Cape May Court House, on Saturday, March 25 at 11:00am. Paid members of the Jersey Shore Chapter and Southeast Chapter are welcome to join us. Bring gloves, pruning shears (not hedge shears) and folding saw if you have one. Space is limited, first (paid member) responders confirm ... Read more

Native Plants and Their Cultivars: Don’t Get Lost in the Weeds

Middletown Township Public Library 55 New Monmouth Rd., middletown, New Jersey, United States

Many of us who garden with native plants feel a sense of urgency to create spaces that fully support wildlife. At the same time, deciding what is truly native to our yards and sourcing those plants can be overwhelming. Moreover, catalogs and garden centers offer a dizzying array of cultivars of native species and far ... Read more