Volunteer Workday @ Meadowbrook
Our volunteer restoration project continues. We’re managing unwelcome plants that crowd our ADA Accessible Trail and the area within the loop. We could use your help!!
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Volunteer Workday @ Bourbon Woods
While not officially open to the public, volunteers can get a glimpse of what Bourbon Woods has to offer the hiker and leisure ecologist while helping to restore the woodland habitat. In the course of our workday, we’ll remove unwelcome invasive plants, freeing stretches of rich soil for more native species to grow. We hope you’ll join us for what will be only the second volunteer workday at this captivating preserve.
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Earth Day 2023: Garlic Mustard Pull @ Lydick Bog
Get rid of garlic mustard, a highly invasive plant, and lend a hand to Mother Nature on Earth Day.
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Meadowbrook Monday: Bittersweet Berries
Bittersweet Berries Removal Join us as we remove bittersweet berries on the first and third Monday of every month as we work on a variety of projects at Meadowbrook Nature Preserve to improve and beautify the preserve. December 5th between 9am-12pm we will be focusing on removing invasive species, which crowd out our native
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Autumn Olive, Buckthorn and Privet, Oh My!
By Audra Ebling Once you see them, you can’t un-see them. Invasive plant species, that is. They are everywhere. My first personal experience with invasive species occurred when we bought a house on the north side of Chicago in the mid 90s that had a morning glory-type vine crawling its way up the garage. Charming,
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Saying Goodbye to Garlic Mustard
By Audra Ebling Growing up as a city kid, I regarded any plant that bloomed as beautiful and “good,” a worthy specimen, a garden treasure. I knew better than to pick the flowers my mom cultivated in our backyard borders but the yellow dandelions in the grass were fair game and she kindly received many
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