Name: Native Garden Learning Hub
Start: 2025-12-07T14:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-12-07T15:30:00-06:00
Location: Lussier Family Heritage Center

Join us for an exciting new community learning and networking opportunity centered on creating, enhancing, and managing native plant gardens! As part of our newly established Native Garden Learning Hub, we invite you to explore valuable resources and receive expert guidance from knowledgeable volunteers. Each month, we’ll feature specialized topics related to native plant gardening, including garden preparation and design, planting for pollinators and other wildlife, native plant propagation, leave the leaves and other maintenance, seed collecting, and much more!
This month’s learning topic will focus on 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀. Learning to grow your own plants can help reduce the cost of adding native plants to your yard and is a fun way to learn more about the plants. Hub attendees will learn how to grow their own plants using an easy milk jug winter sowing method. This month will also feature a 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘄𝗮𝗽. Bring seeds you have extras of and leave with seeds you need! Seeds must be from species native to the Midwest.
Additional learning stations include:
➟ Garden Design with expert help
➟ Winter Critters
➟ Wild Ones Madison Info Table - Leave the Leaves
➟ Resources Library
➟ Swap table
We will start this month’s community gathering with a brief kick-off address from representatives of Dane County’s Land & Water Resources Department and Wild Ones Madison followed by time to visit topic stations and speak to garden design volunteers. Together, we will share knowledge, build connections, and deepen our understanding of native plant gardens, all with the ultimate goal of expanding native habitats across our communities.
𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁: $5 per person (proceeds support environmental education and native plant programming). To request fee assistance, email [email protected].
𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥: https://tinyurl.com/453c776s (must create an account)