Events

In this special collaboration, Robin Wall Kimmerer, author, botanist, and founder of Plant Baby Plant, joins youth leader and Nurture Natives founder Esther Bonney for an intergenerational conversation about belonging, reciprocity, and native plant action. 

Together, they will explore questions such as:

How do we create opportunities for young people to have a voice and feel empowered, even when they are not homeowners or decision makers?What kinds of relationships and mentorships help people stay engaged in native plant work over decades?Why do stories, shared practices, and community invitations matter just as much as plant lists?

Robin and Esther will reflect on what invites people into this work, what keeps them here, and what elders and youth have to teach each other.

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.

Come hang out with fun people and help us help clean seeds that were collected in late 2025! These seeds are part of the Denver Metro / Aurora Region's propagation efforts and will (hopefully!) become plants we give away in June. No experience necessary! We'll show you what to do, how to do it, and provide the supplies. 

We'll also be giving away seeds!

We'll meet at a member's house in East Denver and the number of spaces available is limited to 10, so please sign up in advance. The address will be sent with the registration confirmation.

The Boulder County Region will host three  winter sowing events for our members.  We will be doing the “sow bag” method, but if you are collecting milk jugs, please bring them, and the “milk jug” method can also be demonstrated.  Participants will plant seeds to be cared for until the spring when the member will keep  the plants grown and donate any leftovers to  our  Plant Swap 2026. 

Please bring your seeds from the seed swap, any milk jugs you want to use, and bags or boxes for carrying home your sow bags (and any jugs you make).  This is a messy activity. 

Registration is required, and space is limited.  If you can't make it, please cancel your spot as soon as possible.  

Come and learn about winter sowing our native forbs, using milkjugs.  All seeds and supplies are provided.  Take home several species in jugs to place outside in the winter and allow cold stratification to work it's magic.  RSVP [email protected]

Please join us for a  2-hour workshop on starting native plants from seed with Allisa Zurbuchen, , CSU Extension Horticulture Specialist in El Paso County. This is a hands-on workshop and you will be leaving with samples of native seeds to get you started!   

Allisa is currently working on her Ph.D. researching container production of Colorado Native Plants. 

She  will be covering a host of topics relative to starting native plants from seeds including what is a native, seed science basics, propagation methods adapted for home growers, and expose you to new native plant species.

Registration is limited to 15 participants.

Questions:  [email protected]

This event is free for members.  There is a $5.00 fee for nonmembers.

Not a member?  Please consider joining the Wild Ones Front Range Chapter.  Click on the “Read More” button for more information on how to join!

The Boulder County region will continue with planning our plant swap and regional propagation activities.  We will be meeting at the home of a member in Superior; please register in order to receive the address.

While this meeting is focused on members who have chosen to be on the plant swap planning committee, that committee and all related efforts are open to everyone!  Feel free to register if you are curious and/or just want to help out.

 Member Ron Martin will be giving a talk on Planning and Seeding a Pollinator Garden—an expansion of his portion of the Propagation 101 talk earlier in December.  If you are interested in seeding a pollinator garden, come on out!

This talk is part of the Carbon Valley Regional Library's Bee Love festival from 10 am to 2 pm.  There will be informational tables and other events.  Please plan extra time so you can check out the entire event!

Are you interested in learning more about native plants and landscaping? Or looking for a way to contribute to the mission and help us spread the word about the benefits and joys of native plants? Do you have ideas about what activities our region could offer in 2026? If any of those ring true for you, we'd love to have you join us at our planning session! 

We'll talk about what leadership roles and committees could help our region succeed. 

The Denver Metro/Aurora Region includes residents of Denver and Aurora, as well as Highlands Ranch, Centennial, and other Arapahoe County addresses.

Anyone who is a member of Wild Ones can attend! There will be a Zoom option for those who can't attend in person, and we'll send the Zoom link out in the reminder a few days before the meeting. Be sure to register to be on the list who get the Zoom link.

Once again, in partnership with the Louisville Public Library and Louisville's Bee City USA, we are pleased to offer a seed swap open to members and the public.

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. Email [email protected] to coordinate. If you plan to bring seed the day of the event, please email the species name(s) to [email protected] ahead of time so that we can prepare information for attendees about your seed.

If you would like to volunteer to plan the Boulder County Plant Swap (Spring 2026!), also use that email.

Volunteer sign up is live!  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B44AEAD2EABF5CE9-61429767-wild 

While most in-person propagation activity is happening at the regional level, we'll host three zoom meetings about propagation this winter with our expert, Jan Midgley. This free, virtual event is open chapter-wide, and we invite you to RSVP. Jan will update us on specific species she is working on figuring out germination protocols for, and she will cover some really timely propagation topics. A final agenda will be sent to registrants the week of the event. 

For over 30 years Jan operated a one wheelbarrow native plant nursery in MD and AL. She kept detailed notes on every step of the propagation process for each species. The notes supported the writing of articles, lectures, and books. She continues to self-publish Native Plant Propagation, 5th edition.

After a move to Colorado seven years ago, Jan embarked on a crash course on the flora of the Southern Rockies. She now volunteers arranging specimens two days a week at Denver Botanic Gardens Herbarium. The rest of the time she “plays” with seeds and maintains a Germination Guide for Colorado native plant seeds on the Wild Ones Front Range Chapter website.

This will be a free, members-only event.  If you are not a member, please consider joining so you can access member benefits!

What is rainwater harvesting? Let's join presenter, Theodore Mencimer, as he dives into what it is, why it's important, and how it can both conserve water and help us grow more diverse, more successful native plant landscapes. You'll leave this webinar with the tools to start harvesting rainwater in your landscape and a library of resources to reference down the road.

This webinar draws much of its information from Brad Lancaster's book, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (vol. 1 & 2), but applies those principles to the climate of Colorado's Front Range. We'll focus on assessing your site for rainwater harvesting potential, understanding the importance of earthworks, knowing what steps we can legally take in Colorado, and covering easy first steps to get you harvesting rainwater in a day. Lastly, we'll look at a few case studies from both Tucson and Boulder.

Theodore Johnson Mencimer is a Native Plant Designer working at Meadow Pro, a native plant landscaping company in the Denver/Boulder Metro area. He graduated with a Bachelor's in Environmental Design with an emphasis in Landscape Architecture from CU Boulder, is a  Colorado Native Plant Master, and received his Water Harvesting Design Practitioner Certificate from the Watershed Management Group in Tucson in 2024. He is quite fond of penstemons and bumblebees.

Members $5,  Nonmembers $25

All registrants will receive the webinar recording within a week after the webinar. 

Registration will close on Monday, February 9, at midnight.

Join us for a hands-on Winter Sowing workshop where we will germinate native seeds using plastic jugs. Check out this post on frontrange.wildones.org to learn more about this simple approach to propagating native plants that yields a high success rate.

We will provide a variety of native seed species for you to take home and grow, whether using the milk jug method or sowing directly into the soil to plant in situ.

Registration opens soon!

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.

Join us for a hands-on workshop to build muliple winter sowing bags for native seeds. This is a simple approach to propagating native plants that yields a high success rate. We will provide a variety of native seed species for you to try, but please also feel free to bring extra seeds you have to share with workshop participants.

Registration opens soon.

Join us for a hands-on Winter Sowing workshop where we will germinate native seeds using plastic jugs. Check out this post on frontrange.wildones.org to learn more about this simple approach to propagating native plants that yields a high success rate.

We will provide a variety of native seed species for you to take home and grow, whether using the milk jug method or sowing directly into the soil to plant in situ.

Registration opens soon!

Join us for a hands-on Winter Sowing workshop where we will germinate native seeds using plastic jugs. Check out this post on frontrange.wildones.org to learn more about this simple approach to propagating native plants that yields a high success rate.

We will provide a variety of native seed species for you to grow, whether using the milk jug method, or sowing directly into the soil to grow the plants in situ.

Registration opens soon!

While most in-person propagation activity is happening at the regional level, we'll host three zoom meetings about propagation this winter with our expert, Jan Midgley. This free, virtual event is open chapter-wide, and we invite you to RSVP. Jan will update us on specific species she is working on figuring out germination protocols for, and she will cover some really timely propagation topics. A final agenda will be sent to registrants the week of the event. 

For over 30 years Jan operated a one wheelbarrow native plant nursery in MD and AL. She kept detailed notes on every step of the propagation process for each species. The notes supported the writing of articles, lectures, and books. She continues to self-publish Native Plant Propagation, 5th edition.

After a move to Colorado seven years ago, Jan embarked on a crash course on the flora of the Southern Rockies. She now volunteers arranging specimens two days a week at Denver Botanic Gardens Herbarium. The rest of the time she “plays” with seeds and maintains a Germination Guide for Colorado native plant seeds on the Wild Ones Front Range Chapter website.

This will be a free, members-only event.  If you are not a member, please consider joining so you can access member benefits!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.