Events

Our upcoming webinar with Basil Camu explores practical, evidence based ways to heal suburban and urban landscapes by working with trees, soil, and natural systems, drawing on real world practices from Leaf & Limb and community centered models for restoring life where we live, work, and play.!  

The Winter Gardening Fair is the signature educational event of the Master Gardeners of Linn County. The day-long event offers more than 75 gardening classes over 6 sessions taught by local Master Gardeners and experts from organizations including Xerces Society, Monarch Watch, and Seed Savers.

Wild Ones Cedar Rapids Iowa City Chapter will have a display table, and Secretary Eric Miller will teach Spring Ephemerals for the Shade Garden at 2:30. 

While Eric is our “official”  Wild Ones-affiliated speaker, the following classes are also led by Chapter members:

8:30 - 9:45
 • Beaded Chicken Wire Suncatcher, Speaker: Wanda Ohrt
 • Gardening with Bambi, Speaker: Karla McGrail 
 • Micro-Prairie Gardening, Speaker: Lisa Hinzman Howard

10:00 - 11:00
 • Vegetable Gardening for All Seasons, Speaker: Lisa Hinzman Howard

11:15 - 12:15 
 • Native Bees, Speaker: Karla McGrail 
 • Native Plants - Every Square Foot Counts, Speaker: Wanda Ohrt

12:00 - 1:00
 • Invasive Species and Their Native Replacements, Speaker: Nick McGrath

3:45 - 4:45
 • Native Plants - Top Ten Things I Have Learned, Speaker: Wanda Ohrt
 • Our Bumblebees, Speaker: Karla McGrail (LCMG)

Join Joey Santore, creator of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t, for a candid Wild Ones National Webinar examining how inherited garden aesthetics shape native plant landscapes. Drawing on field experience and real ecology, Joey challenges tidy design norms and explores why dense, irregular plant communities are often the most resilient and ecologically sound.

This free event for all ages will feature information and activities from various environmental organizations in Iowa about addressing climate change and how individuals can take action. Wild Ones, Cedar Rapids Iowa City will have a table at this event for community outreach.

Join us for a hike to appreciate some of our region's most elusive native wildflowers, spring ephemerals.

Location: Meet in the "Old Hwy 218 S Parking" lot on the eastern side of the preserve, here https://maps.app.goo.gl/VqyTNPfxL36HemuQ9

Early-blooming wildflowers such as Spring Beauty, Dutchman’s Breeches, Blue Phlox, Bloodroot, White Trout Lily, Toothwort, Hepatica, and Bellwort appear fleetingly at Ryerson's Woods before the before the Oak-Hickory woodland canopy closes.

Master Naturalist Eric Miller will be on hand to highlight the unique life cycle and ecological role of these fleeting blooms, and the crucial support they provide to early pollinators.

This event is for members-only, however a few spots may be opened up to non-members the week of the event.

RSVP at the link below. 

EcoFest is the Corridor’s annual Earth Day celebration. This family-friendly festival includes interactive educational activities, eco-products, eco-practice demonstrations in how to reduce our consumption of resources, fun ways to reduce and reuse household items, local foods, arts and free live music. 

Wild Ones, Cedar Rapids Iowa City will have a table at this event for community outreach.

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon!