Events

NOTE: Jan McWethy's address will be mailed to members a week or so before the event.

Please mark your calendars and plan to attend our last Member-to-Member Yard Visit of the year.

Jan's Story

We bought our house three years ago. Two things happened almost simultaneously last spring to radically change our front yard.  I read Doug Tallamy’s Nature’s Best Hope, and we needed foundation work done on our basement’s front wall. Once the basement wall was shored up and the yard was all mud, I informed our contractor that I wanted to more than double the size of the former front bed and have all native plants installed. He scratched his head but came through. Eighty-eight one-gallon plants arrived, most of them native. A few months ago he returned to run a sump pump line to near the street and created a small pond/bog. I’ve edged that with natives too. My other main project has been working to eliminate the many beds of ditch lilies on the side and back of the house and replace them with native plantings. 

PARKING: Free street parking.