Wild Ones, Gibson Woods Chapter Business Meetings are held via Zoom
on the first or second Wednesday evening of each month (unless otherwise noted).
Educational Presentations are at 10:00 a.m. the first Saturday of the Month
(unless otherwise noted).
Typically held at Gibson Woods Environmental Awareness Center
6201 Parrish Avenue, Hammond, IN 46323.
Phone 219-844-3188
PLEASE NOTE – Zoom registrations and In-Person R.S.V.Ps are required for all events
- Please check the calendar prior to an event for any changes/updates.
- All Presentations are FREE OF CHARGE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
- Memberships are encouraged as they are vital to furthering Wild One’s Mission
April Member Meeting
Members & Plant Sale Volunteers – In-Person & via Zoom
Saturday, April 5th, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Gibson Woods
6201 Parrish Ave, Hammond IN 46323
All Hands On Deck! We will have Plant Sale & Earth Day prep-work & will go over our strategies that lead up to & include or Plant Sale. Volunteer Sign-ups will also be available.
Please RSVP to come in-person, or Register below to join us via Zoom.
Soil Health Principles
With Tanvi Lad
Open to the Public – via Zoom
Wednesday, April 9th, 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Dirt is dead, Soil is alive. Let’s explore the ecosystem below ground, meet microbes that facilitate the nutrient cycle and food web, and talk about what makes soil healthy versus starved of life. We’ll cover topics of soil stewardship practices which keep the above-ground living community healthy.
Tanvi Lad is the IN NW regional Urban Soil Health Specialist, a practicing ecologist, soil microbiologist, and advocate for regenerative living. Her academic background is a B.S. in Ecology at Purdue University, and currently a trainee under Dr. Elaine Ingham’s Soil Food Web and Zach Weiss’s Water Stories. She learned about permaculture and regenerative principles while serving in the Peace Corps, 2015-2017 in Malawi, East Africa. Over the past 5 years, she lived in Colorado, as a local nonprofit’s compost manager, experimenting and sharing knowledge about biologically-active soil, in order to empower community members to steward their soil’s fertility.