Chapter Events

Chapter Members are welcome to attend any of our Board Meetings.  Have an idea you would like to pitch, just want to say hi and see some behind the scenes action. We would love to have you! Just send an email to [email protected] to ask for the details.  

Stop by to see our table and say hello at the North and South River Watershed Association's Gardening Green Expo 2024!  We will be in the greenhouse with the other organizations and vendors on March 16 from 10am-2pm.  

Check out the "Read More" link below for tons of other info, like Zoom presentations during the week before, in person presentations, links to resources and giveaways!  So much good stuff!!

Chapter Members:  Would you like to sign up to help staff the table for a short time to answer questions and tell everyone how awesome we are?  Just email [email protected] and let us know the approximate time you will be there.

Join us for a Zoom meeting to learn about Ground Nesting Bees.

Members, please join us for a casual Earth Day social.  We will have light refreshments, some Earth Day/Native plant related games and plenty of time to chat about what you have going on in your yard!  

Guided walk with our chapter VP Chris Jacobs.  Can be muddy especially in the spring.  Boots or waterproof shoes recommended.  Space limited to 12.  Please sign up using link below.  Please reach out if your plans change and you can not attend.

We will have our display set up at Blue Stem Natives for their opening weekend!  Come by and say hi.

Chapter Members - Please sign up to stand by the table to chat about native plants and Wild Ones.  We have slots for 2 people per hour.  Registration link below is for the Sign Up Genius.

We will have our display set up at Blue Stem Natives for their opening weekend!  Come by and say hi.

Chapter Members - Please sign up to stand by the table to chat about native plants and Wild Ones.  We have slots for 2 people per hour.  Registration link below is for the Sign Up Genius.

Chapter Members are welcome to attend any of our Board Meetings.  Have an idea you would like to pitch, just want to say hi and see some behind the scenes action. We would love to have you! Just send an email to [email protected] to ask for the Zoom link.

We will begin this meeting by taking a look at the Rain Garden that the NSRWA and the First Parish Youth Group installed at the church. Amanda, the Director of Community Engagement will join us to talk about the garden. 

After that, we will go inside for our "Show and Tell and Ask".  Do you want to show off some native plants in your yard?  Do you have an area that you need some advice on?  Chapter Members - check your email for instructions on how to submit some photos.  We will go through as many photos as we have time for.  

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 Join us for a guided Walk with Plymouth’s Department of Natural Resources. We’ll hear about the restoration project of this 126-acre parcel including a 1 mile brook that flows into Beaver Dam Brook located across the street in the Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary.  Following the walk, we will spend time keying down and IDing some of the diverse species found at the preserve. Bring your favorite ID guides and apps.  

Limit: 15 participants

Cost: $5 Chapter Members/$10 Non-members

George Stanchfield, South Shore gardening guru, will take us on an enchanted walk at Burrage Pond Wildlife Management area in search of the elusive rose pogonia (Pogonia ophioglossoides) and grass pink orchid (Calopogon tuberosus). In addition, we will see other beautiful natives in their natural habitat. Suggested attire: sturdy shoes, sun hat, sunscreen, and bug spray. Bring plenty of water and binoculars and a camera are encouraged. 

Limit 15 participants

Sign up link will be emailed to chapter members.  If there are still opening for non members, the link will be posted here on June 15th.

Chapter Member, Ed, is an avid native plant gardener and frequents Blue Stem Natives.  Come check out his property in Hanson to see how things are going!  The address will be emailed a couple days in advance to those who sign up.

Parking is limited so carpooling is recommended.  Some of us could meet at the Hanson Library and carpool from there.

If you happen to be going to the Marshfield Fair, stop by to check out our display!  Post a selfie of you in front of the display in our FB group so we know you were there!

Chapter Secretary, Brian, is a landscape designer by trade.  Come check out how he incorporates native plants into his own landscape!  The address will be emailed a couple days in advance to those who sign up.

Parking is limited so carpooling is recommended.  Some of us could meet at the Pembroke Lowe's and carpool from there.

Chapter VP, Chris, is the Director at Pinewoods Camp. She gets to live right there at camp!  She will show us the native plants she has added to her yard as well as some of the native plantings around the camp.  The address will be emailed a couple days in advance to those who sign up.

Chris was excited to begin gardening in her new abode until she realized the entire yard was filled with English ivy, gooseneck loosestrife, lily of the valley, and vinca. At a snail's pace, she has been removing the aggressive non-natives and replacing them with fast growing natives. See the progress she has made, learn some of the surprises she has found, and if you're up to it, yank a vine of ivy out. In addition, Chris will show you some of the native gardens that have been installed at Pinewoods Camp, the camp she runs on Long Pond.. 

Chapter Members are welcome to attend any of our Board Meetings.  Have an idea you would like to pitch, just want to say hi and see some behind the scenes action. We would love to have you! Just send an email to [email protected] to let us know you plan to attend.

Some casual discussions about Native Plants and some socializing.

Chris Jacobs, Wild Ones - South Shore MA Chapter VP, will lead an informal walk at Tidmarsh where native plants abound. Once a working cranberry farm, this landscape underwent the largest freshwater ecological restoration ever completed in the Northeast. Now Tidmarsh is a 481-acre property that's home to a vast expanse of cold-water streams, ponds, forest, and woodlands - all permanently protected and open for everyone to enjoy. 

Amy Meltzer will give us a presentation entitled, "Gardening For Biodiversity With Native Plants: Providing habitat for pollinators, birds and other essential wildlife".

In this talk, Amy will focus on the current biodiversity crisis; the evolutionary history among native plants, insects, birds and fungi, and how these interdependent relationships among diverse species are necessary for their survival. She will show how growing native plants and using ecological landscape practices can simultaneously reverse biodiversity loss, increase resilience in our landscapes, and slow climate change - all while creating a beautiful garden!

Amy Meltzer is on the steering committee of the Mass Pollinator Network, is an active member of Grow Native Massachusetts, and is on both the Research Team and the Natural Solutions Working Group of Elders Climate Action. She has been researching and growing native plants for over ten years. 

This FREE presentation is brought to you in partnership with the Mattakeesett Gardening Club in Pembroke.  All are welcome.  Bring your friends and family!

Wild Ones, South Shore, MA board members will demonstrate and share tips and tricks to native seed collecting including best practices, ethics, and materials needed. Members will be encouraged to share their seed collecting stories including successes and failures. This workshop is the first of a three-part series.

Join us for our annual seed swap. In November, you will learn to collect seeds in preparation for this event. Swapping seeds with fellow gardeners is a great opportunity to expand the diversity in your garden. Bring your labeled native seeds to share. This event is the second of a three-part series. Beverages and light snacks will be provided.  Please register below, so we know how many refreshments to bring.