Events Archive: 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Upcoming Events
April 2025
INVASIVE VEGETATION ID CLASS
Mambourg Nature Center, 5531 Cincinnati Zanesville Rd NE, Lancaster, OH, 43130 Map
Public Welcome Family-Friendly Free Event Chapter Meeting Program/Speaker Presentation Hands-On/How-To Workshop Nature Walk/Hike Wheelchair Accessible Public Restroom Free Public Parking Lots of Physical Activity Drinking Fountains
Located at Mamborg Nature Center in Lancaster, Ohio- OSU Extension educator Carrie Brown and Fairfield Parks District join forces to help us learn about Invasive Vegetation- how to identify and effectively remove.
In-person indoors education on invasive vegetation in our landcapes with guidance on how to positively identify and remove. This class will have both an indoor and outdoor component. Dress for possible inclement weather. Optional mile long hike to identity and remove invasives after indoor instruction.
Class intended for individuals 13+. Please bring good walking/hiking shoes/boots as well as gardening gloves.
Pickerington Earth Day
Combustion Brewery and Taproom Pickerington, Ohio, 80 W Church St, Pickerington, OH, 43147 Map
Public Welcome Family-Friendly Free Event Hands-On/How-To Workshop Seed/Plant Share Public Restroom Free Public Parking Lots of Physical Activity Drinking Fountains
PICKERINGTON EARTH DAY
Receive up to FIVE FREE trees/shrubs from Wild Ones:
Choose from the following:
Viburnum prunifolium - Blackhaw Viburnum (50)Platanus occidentalis - Sycamore
(50)
Lindera benzoin - Spicebush
(100)
Diospyros virginiana - Persimmon
(50)
Cornus stolonifera - Redoiser Dogwood
(50)
Carya illinoinensis - Native Pecan
(50)
Aronia melanocarpa - Black Chokeberry
(50)
*
(Registration for free offerings to be announced closer to the date of the event.)
Wild Ones will also be giving out free Pollinator Pocket Seed Packets from our booth at Combustion.
Headquartered at Combustion Brewery in Pickerington.
Trash pickup throughout the city of Pickerington.
Native plantings at variety of sites (more information TBD)
See Pickerington Online for more information.
*Tree/Shrub quanity/selection is subject to change. A more exact quanity/selection to be determined closer to event date.
June 2025
Homegrown National Park- Take Action- Join the Movement
Public Welcome Family-Friendly Free Event Chapter Social Program/Speaker Presentation Hands-On/How-To Workshop Seed/Plant Sale Wheelchair Accessible Public Restroom Free Public Parking Drinking Fountains
Learn about the HNP's actionable steps.
The Homegrown National Park offers explicit steps each of us can take within our own spaces. Let's learn the steps and put them into action today.
Attendees will have the chance to recieve:
Wild Ones literature
Free Seeds
Free plants (varieties based on availability)
Activity portion-
We take the Mosquito Dunk Bucket challenge.
Five luck attendees- will receive their Mosquito Dunk Buckets for FREE.
August 2025
COVER CROPS & THE MODERN HOME GARDEN
Brandt Family Farm/Walnut Creek Seeds
Public Welcome Family-Friendly Free Event Chapter Meeting Program/Speaker Presentation Hands-On/How-To Workshop Group Tour Seed/Plant Share Free Public Parking Lots of Physical Activity
COVER CROPS & THE MODERN HOME GARDEN-Brandt Farm- Carroll
Local NO-Till legends, the Brandt family, share why cover crops are the way
to go to preserve life, improve soil quality, and reduce eroision.
September 2025
September Wild Ones National Webinar
Hosted by Wild Ones NationalOnline/Virtual
Public Welcome Recording Available Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation
Details coming soon!
October 2025
October Wild Ones National Webinar
Hosted by Wild Ones NationalOnline/Virtual
Public Welcome Recording Available Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation
Details coming soon!
November 2025
November Wild Ones National Webinar
Hosted by Wild Ones NationalOnline/Virtual
Public Welcome Recording Available Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation
Details coming soon!