Events

Member review of Plant Sale, and discussion of this year’s projects & other summer activities. Followed by some clean-up at the Butterfly Garden. This is a great summer volunteering opportunity for Wild Ones members, as well as Non-Members. Hours throughout the Summer are available. If interested in summer volunteering, please contact us. Bring your own beverage & snack to the meeting & don’t forget your garden gloves & favorite shovel! Non-members are welcome.

Please use the RSVP on our Chapter Event page if you’d like to attend this meeting in person. 

To attend this meeting via Zoom, please register.

Bring your own drink & snack

We will have a business meeting indoors at Gibson Woods, followed by a native plant & seed swap outdoors. We will also be dedicating the new Kiosks in honor of Joy & Rick Bower.

If you are not a member, and just want to attend the swap, please arrive at 11:00 a.m.

Please go to our Chapter Event page to RSVP if you'd like to attend this meeting in person.

Snacks & drinks will be available.

Contact us for in-person RSVPs

Many of our bats are becoming endangered and people can take simple steps to help!

The Good Bat Neighbor (GBN) Program helps inform about the plight of bats and how to protect and restore their habitat right in your own backyard.

Learn how to create a Bat Garden with native plants, and improve habitat with actions as easy as reducing Artificial Light at Night (ALAN).

Bats have a uphill battle-habitat loss, pesticide use, a deadly infection spread by humans... Yet they help us so much-they eat disease- causing insects, protect crops from agricultural pests, and fertilize everywhere thy go.  Won't you give them a helping hand, too?

Bio: Jen Woronecki-Ellis has been passionate about helping wildlife since her first bird rescue when she was three.  She started on habitat restoration when she founded Juniper 's NatureScaping in 2006, with a focus on birds and pollinators, and began to incorporate bats with her graduate studies while she pursued a Master's in Biology through Project Dragonfly at Miami University Ohio in partnership with the Chicago Zoological Society.

Jen created the Good Bat Neighbor citizen conservation program and has presented at the annual Midwest Bat Working Group conference in Missouri and the Wild Things conference in Illinois, as well as meetings of local non-profit organizations in Northwest Indiana... she has also made a number of nature documentaries, including work for the Ohio Bat Working Group.

When she's not busy producing bat  education and outreach materials, and connecting with bat rehabbers and organizations around the world, she enjoys birding with her spouse in and around the Indiana Dunes.