Events

FRWO Jeffco Region is in the process of installing a Colorado native demonstration garden for the City of Lakewood. We'll be planting and adding rock mulch..

Please join us to celebrate YOU at our annual member appreciation social! We will have food, drinks, prizes, and a chance to tour the Rocky Mountain Botanic Gardens.  This is a great opportunity to socialize with fellow members, volunteers, and learn more about the Front Range chapter, but most of all, let us say thank you for being a member!

If you are able and willing, please bring a dish to share during the event. Sign-up to contribute for the potluck here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F44ABAC2CA5FFC16-60472080-annual 

Want to carpool? Please use this sign-up sheet to coordinate with other members and carpool to the event together: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/162V7qPvjVYBbi-qyR1fjMHwWSR-q8wGB-CgxndvNSRg/edit?usp=sharing 

FRWO Jeffco Region is in the process of installing a Colorado native demonstration garden for the City of Lakewood. We'll be adding rock mulch and adding the final touches to the garden.

Save-the-date for a fall seed collection/cleaning event! Check back soon for details about location and registration. 

FRWO Jeffco Region is in the process of installing a Colorado native demonstration garden for the City of Lakewood. We'll be watering the garden and adding the final touches to the garden.

Monthly meeting of Wild Ones Front Range regional coordinators.

Save-the-date for a fall seed collection/cleaning event! Check back soon for details about location and registration. 

Bring your seed heads and kitchen equipment like funnels, colanders, mixing bowls, sieves, cookie sheets and anything else you find useful.  (Not sure? Get in touch!  We will also have extra!) This is a good time to bring seeds to clean, although there will be extra. We will demonstrate “how to”--prior experience is not necessary--please join us. We are also collecting nursery pots and trays for reuse and clean, empty, wide-mouth plastic containers of various sizes for seeds.   This is a social event, a friendly event, a kid-friendly event (with supervision), and a mostly seated event.  If you have questions, please get in touch with one of the Boulder/Broomfield Counties regional coordinators.

Join for a guided nature walk and seed collection event at Aurora Reservoir, led by Aurora Parks & Recreation. We will be going off trail, so please wear closed-toed shoes and long pants and bring along whatever supplies they might need to stay comfortable while outside. We will provide seed collection supplies and tools for everyone, but you're welcome to bring your own supplies too.

Bats are among the most important and misunderstood wildlife in our communities. Join experts from Bat Conservation International to explore how native plants, healthy insect populations, and thoughtful landscape design can help support bats. Learn about the ecological role of bats and discover practical ways to create habitat for North America's night flyers right in your own backyard.

Monthly meeting of the Front Range Chapter's Board of Directors. All members are welcome to attend. Email us at [email protected] if you're interested in joining the call.

Join us for a seed cleaning event at the Sam Gary Denver Public Library Branch as we clean and prepare our collected seeds for the Seed Swap. 

We'll provide to tools and seeds and guidance. No experience needed and you don't need to bring seeds to contribute! 

Bring your seed heads and kitchen equipment like funnels, colanders, mixing bowls, sieves, cookie sheets and anything else you find useful.  (Not sure? Get in touch!  We will also have extra!) This is a good time to bring seeds to clean, although there will be extra. We will demonstrate “how to”--prior experience is not necessary--please join us. We are also collecting nursery pots and trays for reuse and clean, empty, wide-mouth plastic containers of various sizes for seeds.   This is a social event, a friendly event, a kid-friendly event (with supervision), and a mostly seated event.  If you have questions, please get in touch with one of the Boulder/Broomfield Counties regional coordinators.

Join for a guided nature walk and seed collection event at Aurora Reservoir, led by Aurora Parks & Recreation. We will be going off trail, so please wear closed-toed shoes and long pants and bring along whatever supplies they might need to stay comfortable while outside. We will provide seed collection supplies and tools for everyone, but you're welcome to bring your own supplies too.

Bring your seed heads and kitchen equipment like funnels, colanders, mixing bowls, sieves, cookie sheets and anything else you find useful.  (Not sure? Get in touch!  We will also have extra!) This is a good time to bring seeds to clean, although there will be extra. We will demonstrate “how to”--prior experience is not necessary--please join us. We are also collecting nursery pots and trays for reuse and clean, empty, wide-mouth plastic containers of various sizes for seeds.   This is a social event, a friendly event, a kid-friendly event (with supervision), and a mostly seated event.  If you have questions, please get in touch with one of the Boulder/Broomfield Counties regional coordinators.

The Pikes Peak Region will be adding a modern twist to  the centuries old tradition of community gatherings such as quilting bees, threshings, and barn raising!

Members will build relationships, make friends, and have fun while collaboratively completing the worthwhile task of cleaning “the seed from the chaff!”

Learn the “how to”  of cleaning native seeds in preparation for our Native Seed Share on November 14, 2026.  

Registration required

Bring your seed heads and kitchen equipment like funnels, colanders, mixing bowls, sieves, cookie sheets and anything else you find useful.  (Not sure? Get in touch!  We will also have extra!) This is a good time to bring seeds to clean, although there will be extra. We will demonstrate “how to”--prior experience is not necessary--please join us. We are also collecting nursery pots and trays for reuse and clean, empty, wide-mouth plastic containers of various sizes for seeds.   This is a social event, a friendly event, a kid-friendly event (with supervision), and a mostly seated event.  If you have questions, please get in touch with one of the Boulder/Broomfield Counties regional coordinators.

Monthly meeting of Wild Ones Front Range regional coordinators.

Please join Ayn Schmit, as we … 

Jump In the Deep End of Native Plant Gardening!  WOFR’s Beginner’s Guide for Growing Native Plants

We’ll cover everything you need to know to get started with native plant gardening, including design, site prep, plant selection, planting and maintaining your new landscape.

We’ll explore these topics as they are covered in WOFR’s brand new Beginner’s Guide. We’ll highlight some of the specific plants we recommend for those new to native plant gardening.

And finally, we’ll talk about the big picture of creating and maintaining an ecologically beneficial garden using all the principles of sustainable gardening. We’ll have plenty of time for Q & A during and following the presentation.

PRESENTER: Ayn Schmit, WOFR Board Member and career environmental scientist. Ayn almost completed a degree in horticulture decades ago before falling in love with environmental science and policy and pursuing a 40-year career with EPA, mostly in water quality and watershed management. After retiring, she was lucky enough to fall in with the native plant enthusiasts and experts at Wild Ones Front Range Chapter and has been growing and learning about Colorado (and now California!) native plants ever since.

She led the development of WOFR’s new Beginner’s Guide and is working with an amazing group of volunteers to bring to life a WOFR native plant demonstration in northwest Denver.

Once registered, we will send registrants the Zoom link in the program reminder email a few days before the webinar. All registrants will receive the recording about a week after the webinar, even if you can't make it live!

Member - $5 Nonmember - $25

Please consider joining the Wild Ones Front Range Chapter if you are not a member (only $40/year), so you can access member benefits!

Registration will close on Tuesday, Nov.10th at midnight -please register before then!

Free Seed Swap! No matter your gardening experience, you’ll find something of interest at the WOFR Pikes Peak Region 2026 Native Plant Seed Share. This is a free event. There will be a variety of Pikes Peak regional native seeds including annuals, perennials, shrubs, and grasses ranging from easy-to-difficult to propagate.  Find seeds of native plants to add to your garden—for free!  You do not need to bring seeds to participate.

Want to contribute?  Donate your seeds prior to the event by contacting  [email protected]  OR bring your seeds to the share and volunteers will catalogue and stock them for future seed shares.

Remember… please collect your native seeds responsibly!  For more information on collecting seeds responsibly go to https://nanps.org/seed-collecting/

Participating Organizations:

Front Range Wild Ones: https://frontrange.wildones.org/pikes-peak-seed-swap/

Manitou Seed Library: https://www.facebook.com/ManitouSeedLibrary/

Questions?  Contact [email protected] 

Free Seed Swap! No matter your gardening experience, you’ll find something of interest at the WOFR Pikes Peak Region 2026 Native Plant Seed Share. This is a free event. There will be a variety of Pikes Peak regional native seeds including annuals, perennials, shrubs, and grasses ranging from easy-to-difficult to propagate.  Find seeds of native plants to add to your garden—for free!  You do not need to bring seeds to participate.

Want to contribute?  Donate your seeds prior to the event by contacting  [email protected]  OR bring your seeds to the share and volunteers will catalogue and stock them for future seed shares.

Remember… please collect your native seeds responsibly!  For more information on collecting seeds responsibly go to https://nanps.org/seed-collecting/

Participating Organizations:

Front Range Wild Ones: https://frontrange.wildones.org/pikes-peak-seed-swap/

Manitou Seed Library: https://www.facebook.com/ManitouSeedLibrary/

Questions?  Contact [email protected] 

We hope you can join us! We’ll have a variety of seed including annuals, perennials,  grasses, shrubs, and trees. We will also have information about how to grow native seed. You don't need to bring seed to attend the event or bring home seed.

If you do have native seed to share, please label each species with this information:
* Botanical Name
* Common Name
* Collection City or County, Elevation, and Year 
* Your First Initial and Last Name
* If your seed is from a wild population rather than a garden site, add “WILD”

We happily accept seed from species native to Colorado and adjacent states. Please avoid cultivars, which might not support native pollinators and wildlife. We do NOT accept seeds from plants designated as noxious weeds.

You can drop off seed before the event in Fort Collins or Longmont. Email [email protected] to coordinate. If you plan to bring seed the day of the event, email the species name(s) to [email protected] ahead of time so that we can prepare information for attendees about your seed.

Zoe Evans, rewilding coach and VP of Partnerships & Programs at Wildr shares a practical, science-informed framework for evaluating a home landscape, identifying its greatest habitat opportunities, and choosing actions that support more plants, insects, birds, and other wildlife.

Registration link coming soon.

Monthly meeting of the Front Range Chapter's Board of Directors. All members are welcome to attend. Email us at [email protected] if you're interested in joining the call.

SAVE-THE-DATE! Aurora City Seed Swap this fall on Saturday, November 21 at Tallyn's Reach Library from 10:30am-12:30pm.

Stay Tuned! Details Coming Soon!

Fall seed swap for the Boulder and Broomfield Counties Region.  We will be adding information to this listing!  The timing may change!

First Access for Members (and their guests) expected at noon
Open to the Public at 1 pm

Online registration will be created at some point--watch this listing.   This is a free event. 

We hope you can join us! We’ll have a variety of seed including annuals, perennials,  grasses, shrubs, and trees.  We will also have information about how to grow native seed, as well as info about plants which support pollinators and birds.  You don't need to bring seed to attend the event or bring home seed.

If you do have native seed to share, please label each species with this information:
* Botanical Name
* Common Name
* Collection City or County, Elevation, and Year 
* Your First Initial and Last Name
* If your seed is from a wild population rather than a garden site, add “WILD”

We happily accept seed from species native to Colorado and adjacent states. Please avoid cultivars, which might not support native pollinators and wildlife. We do NOT accept seeds from plants designated as noxious weeds.

You can drop off seed before the event--contact a regional coordinator to find out where. If you plan to bring seed the day of the event, please email the species name(s) ahead of time so that we can prepare information for attendees about your seed.

We will have volunteer opportunities-watch this listing. 

This is the first of three Propagation methods workshops led by Jan Midgely.

Stay Tuned - Details Coming Soon!

Monthly meeting of the Front Range Chapter's Board of Directors. All members are welcome to attend. Email us at [email protected] if you're interested in joining the call.

This is the second of three Propagation methods workshops led by Jan Midgely.

Stay Tuned - Details Coming Soon!

No yard required. Learn how native plants can turn patios, balconies, containers, and other small spaces into meaningful habitat for pollinators and other wildlife. This practical panel will cover plant selection, container design, seasonal care, and realistic ways to support biodiversity in limited spaces.

Registration link coming soon.

Winter seed swap for the Boulder and Broomfield Counties Region.  We will be adding information to this listing!  The timing may change!

First Access for Members (and their guests) expected at noon
Open to the Public at 1 pm

Online registration will be created at some point--watch this listing.   This is a free event. 

We hope you can join us! We’ll have a variety of seed including annuals, perennials,  grasses, shrubs, and trees.  We will also have information about how to grow native seed, as well as info about plants which support pollinators and birds.  You don't need to bring seed to attend the event or bring home seed.

If you do have native seed to share, please label each species with this information:
* Botanical Name
* Common Name
* Collection City or County, Elevation, and Year 
* Your First Initial and Last Name
* If your seed is from a wild population rather than a garden site, add “WILD”

We happily accept seed from species native to Colorado and adjacent states. Please avoid cultivars, which might not support native pollinators and wildlife. We do NOT accept seeds from plants designated as noxious weeds.

You can drop off seed before the event--contact a regional coordinator to find out where. If you plan to bring seed the day of the event, please email the species name(s) ahead of time so that we can prepare information for attendees about your seed.

We will have volunteer opportunities-watch this listing. 

This is the third of three Propagation methods workshops led by Jan Midgely.

Stay Tuned - Details Coming Soon!

Birds depend on healthy, connected habitats for food, shelter, nesting, and migration support. Join experts from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to explore how native plants and thoughtful landscape choices can support birdlife at home. Learn how gardens, yards, and community spaces can provide the insects, seeds, berries, cover, and habitat structure birds need throughout the year.

Registration link coming soon. 

Stay Tuned - Details Coming Soon!

Stay Tuned - Details Coming Soon!

Monarch butterflies depend on a network of habitats stretching across North America, and home landscapes can play an important role in their survival. Join experts from Monarch Joint Venture to explore the science behind monarch conservation, including the importance of milkweed, nectar resources, and regionally appropriate habitat. Learn practical ways to support monarchs through native landscaping and help sustain one of the world's most remarkable migrations.
 

Registration link coming soon.