Celebrate Earth Day with your neighbors and friends by volunteering to clean up your local park! Join this community-wide volunteer effort to make a difference. Earth Day Challenge Projects are held throughout the city. Volunteers may assist with trash pickup, … Continued
The Open House at the Neighborhood Butterfly Garden Saturday morning was a great success, despite the chilly weather! We had a couple dozen attendees, including several of our Garden Volunteers, Arboretum Volunteers, Neighbors, Board members, Neighborhood Leaders from “over the … Continued
There has been lots of activity at the Neighborhood Butterfly Garden and great progress is being made! In late May and early June several of us, including some neighborhood children, planted the 96 donated plants from Dane County’s Plant Dane … Continued
Dane County Parks is teaming up with United Madison to host a one of a kind Parks & Trails Unite Festival. This FREE community event will encourage unity, give us the opportunity to lift each other up to better understand and learn … Continued
Spring is finally here at last! It’s time to be thinking about what’s happening with our Neighborhood Butterfly/Pollinator Garden. I’ve been poking around and have found some early season plants coming up! Prairie Smoke, Golden Alexanders, and Wild Strawberry are … Continued
Monday, April 30 Westminster Presbyterian Church – 4100 Nakoma Road Doors open at 6:45, meeting starts at 7:00. Join Phil Pellitteri, Distinguished Faculty Associate Emeritus with the UW Entomology Department at a forum on insects that can be dangerous … Continued
There is an easy way to contribute plants for our Butterfly Garden! The Neighborhood Association applied and was approved to receive plant donations this spring through Plant Dane, a Dane County program. As you’ve seen in our last Garden post, … Continued
October and November were very busy and productive for the Gardening Volunteers. We held six sessions in October with anywhere from two to ten volunteers, planting approximately 200 small seedling plants grown by myself and by one of our Arboretum … Continued
Wednesday, Oct 18, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Westminster Presbyterian Church 4100 Nakoma Road, Madison, WI The Crawford Marlborough Nakoma Neighborhood Association is sponsoring a forum with Madison City Forester Marla Eddy. Topics discussed will be Emerald Ash Borer, replacement … Continued
Fall is here, and it’s time to get going again on the Butterfly Garden! It seems that our efforts to smother the grass and weeds have paid off. On Monday September 18 Susan Carpenter from the Arboretum checked under … Continued