Wild Ones Madison

04/17/2026

Come join us for our Earth Day Celebration on Saturday April, 18th, 2025. This year we're taking our festivities partially indoors and will be hosting it at the Aldo Leopold Nature Center in Monona. We'll have snacks (including our annual hot waffles!) and socializing in the Tamarack Room from 10:30am-12:30pm. At 11:30am, you're welcome to partake in a short guided hike to observe some of the early spring flora.

04/15/2026

Celebrate!

03/11/2025

Join us tonight! 🦊

As we seek to restore habitat with less lawn and more native plantings, we rejoice in the return of the insects and animals that so desperately need these spaces. Butterflies, bumblebees, and…coyotes?

Join us along with Dr. David Drake, who heads up the UW Urban Canid Project, to learn more about how foxes and coyotes use the urban landscape and how their life histories and behaviors change as a result of their interactions with humans. The UWUCP aims to better understand these urban adapters so that citizens and wildlife managers alike can be more proactive in how they respond to these animals.

When: Tuesday, March 11 5:30 pm - 7:00pm
Where: Lakeview Library, 2845 N. Sherman Avenue

See you there! 🦊

02/24/2025

As we seek to restore habitat with less lawn and more native plantings, we rejoice in the return of the insects and animals that so desperately need these spaces. Butterflies, bumblebees, and…coyotes?

Join us along with Dr. David Drake, who heads up the UW Urban Canid Project, to learn more about how foxes and coyotes use the urban landscape and how their life histories and behaviors change as a result of their interactions with humans. The UWUCP aims to better understand these urban adapters so that citizens and wildlife managers alike can be more proactive in how they respond to these animals.

When: Tuesday, March 11 5:30 pm - 7:00pm
Where: Lakeview Library, 2845 N. Sherman Avenue

See you there! 🦊

02/06/2025

Come visit us at Garden Expo this weekend! 🌷

01/02/2025

Join us for our for first event of the new year!

Botanizing by Bicycle: Exploring Native Plant Communities on Two Wheels by Jeff Steele

Thursday, January 30
6-7:30pm
Harmony Bar & Grill on Atwood Ave.

Jeff will share his many adventures spent exploring along Southern Wisconsin's trail system and how you can start your own exploring!

11/20/2024

Reminder! Our annual seed swap is tomorrow!

11/11/2024

Job Opening! Native Plant Sale and Events Coordinator

We are passing this along from UW-Madison Friends of the Arboretum, who are looking for a Native Plant Sale and Events Coordinator.

Please follow the link below for more information about the position and how to apply!

Friends of the Arboretum Native Plant Sale and Events Coordinator Position Description – 10.16.2024 Friends of the Arboretum Mission Statement Friends of the Arboretum builds positive relationships between people […]

09/09/2024

New date for our re-scheduled ice cream social! Looks like it will be a nice 80 degree day to enjoy some ice cream, art activities, and the beautiful fall blooms. We hope to see you there! ☺️

08/23/2024

Don’t forget! Our native plant sale with SOS Songbirds and Johnson’s Nursery will be ending in two weeks!!

We’re excited to team up with SOS Save Our Songbirds and Johnson's Nursery for a fall native plant sale 🌱

Online ordering only!
August 1st - September 6
Pickup on September 13 from 12-5pm

Pollinators aren’t the only ones benefiting from native plants! Our local songbirds survival depend on the existence of native plant communities and organizations like Madison’s Save Our Songbirds hope to highlight this often overlooked connection and encourage people to make small changes at home to provide habitat and food sources for birds.

We’re quickly approaching the fall planting season and this is a great opportunity to purchase native trees, shrubs, and perennials to support our local songbirds!

15% of all sales will be donated back to Wild Ones-Madison!

✨🔗: https://madison.wildones.org/treeandshrubsale/

^Following this link will take you to our Madison chapter webpage where you’ll find instructions on how to submit your order AND how to select Wild Ones as your pick up option, ensuring your plants go to the right location and that Wild Ones-Madison receives the sale credits. 🤗🌸

08/11/2024

Reminder! Our annual Ice Cream Social is coming up this Thursday!

There will be an art activity, prairies to explore, and plenty of ice cream to treat yourselves to!

Let us know if you’re planning on attending by responding to the event in our Events tab 🤗 See you there!

08/01/2024

We’re excited to team up with SOS Save Our Songbirds and Johnson's Nursery for a fall native plant sale 🌱

Online ordering only!
August 1st - September 6
Pickup on September 13 from 12-5pm

Pollinators aren’t the only ones benefiting from native plants! Our local songbirds survival depend on the existence of native plant communities and organizations like Madison’s Save Our Songbirds hope to highlight this often overlooked connection and encourage people to make small changes at home to provide habitat and food sources for birds.

We’re quickly approaching the fall planting season and this is a great opportunity to purchase native trees, shrubs, and perennials to support our local songbirds!

15% of all sales will be donated back to Wild Ones-Madison!

✨🔗: https://madison.wildones.org/treeandshrubsale/

^Following this link will take you to our Madison chapter webpage where you’ll find instructions on how to submit your order AND how to select Wild Ones as your pick up option, ensuring your plants go to the right location and that Wild Ones-Madison receives the sale credits. 🤗🌸