Upcoming Events

The Importance of Native Plants – Free Virtual Class 
Native plants play a critical role in supporting pollinators, birds, and other wildlife, while helping to restore healthy soil, improve water quality, and strengthen local ecosystems.

Join us for a free virtual class, The Importance of Native Plants, to explore why these plants matter — and how small choices in our own yards and communities can lead to meaningful change.

You’ll also learn more about Wild Ones Greater Cleveland, a local chapter of the national nonprofit Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes. Our chapter is focused on raising awareness, providing education, and supporting habitat restoration through community programs, public events, and native garden projects across Northeast Ohio.

️ Wednesday, June 25 • 7:00–8:00 PM (ET)
Online – RSVP required
️ Free and open to all

Whether you're just getting started or already growing native plants, this session will leave you informed, inspired, and ready to take the next step.

Wild Ones Greater Cleveland is thrilled to invite you to the 1-Year Anniversary Celebration of the NEO Habitat Corridor — a joyful gathering of members, partners, and community nature-lovers who’ve helped this vision grow! Join us for an afternoon of fun, food, and nature as we celebrate our collective impact and share stories from along the corridor.

Enjoy:
~ Guided tour of the beautiful native wetland garden installed last year
~ Woodland trail strolls under the canopy
~ Family-friendly fun with lawn games, snacks, and sweet treats
~ Free Habitat Corridor merch giveaways
~ Impett Park's  brand new playground for kiddos

Whether you’re part of the corridor or just curious, this event is for everyone who cares about native plants, healthy ecosystems, and building a greener future together.

Registration requested so we can plan our snacks and sweet treats! Bring a picnic blanket and the family along for an outdoor picnic event.

Note that we'll be taking photos at the celebration to document the fun and celebration; as always, if you prefer not to be photographed, please let us know!

Butterfly Puddler Workshop & Social (Portage)

Join Wild Ones Greater Cleveland for a hands-on FREE workshop to learn about an easy and inexpensive way to care for the butterflies in your garden. We will be making butterfly puddlers! Participants will learn what supplies are needed to build a DIY butterfly puddler and what kinds of butterflies their new puddlers will attract.  Each participant will get to take home a completed butterfly puddler.

We will be providing aluminum pie pans for all participants to use, but you are welcome to bring your own shallow vessel. This can be a shallow bowl, the saucer from a plant pot, a frisbee, clam shell, or any other similarly-shaped dish. We will also be providing a number of different items to decorate our butterfly puddlers.  You are welcome to bring your own decorations as well (plastic items are not recommended, as they deteriorate in the sun).

July 5,2025, 4-5:30pm

This workshop will be at the pavilion at Dix Park in Ravenna, OH (7318 SR 44, Ravenna, OH 44266)

Light refreshments provided

Registration required

Wild Ones greater Cleveland is teaming up with Medina County Park District to bring you an excellent opportunity to learn about native bees during this Bee ID field day. Local bee experts will be on hand to demonstrate how native bees are collected and identified for research purposes. You will learn about the diversity of native bee species and the important role they play in providing pollination services. Please be sure to dress to be in tall grass and bring your own bug spray and water.

Monthly Officer/Board Meeting

We invite you to our Wild Ones Greater Cleveland monthly chapter meeting!

Educational Topic: Protecting the Jewels of the Night: How You Can Support Fireflies

The presentation will cover the firefly life cycle, physiology, and diversity, as well as firefly habitat needs and the environmental threats contributing to declines in abundance.  We will also discuss what people can do to support healthy populations of our iconic “jewels of the night!”

Speaker: Cat Miller

Cat is retired and has moved on to a new “career” as an aspiring amateur naturalist and a Master Gardener with a passion for native flora and fauna.  She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and earned undergraduate degrees from Case Western Reserve University in German and History and from Cleveland State University in Vocal Performance.  She moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 2001 where she spent almost two decades following her heart as a singer-songwriter by night and earning her living as an Office Manager by day.  She currently resides in a hundred-year-old house in Cleveland Heights with her husband, two rescue dogs, a cat, and four chickens, and is in the process of converting as much of the property as possible into pollinator and wildlife habitat.  When she is not gardening, she enjoys spending time hiking, biking, birding, and learning about all things Nature!

Discussion Topic: TBD

NEW: Starting in July, we'll ask you to register for the chapter meeting Zoom series using the registration link below in order to receive a link to join the meeting.  Register once and you'll be registered for all the meetings for the rest of the year.  This will help us keep our Zoom meetings secure, but they are still free and open to the public.  Please join us!

Wild Ones Greater Cleveland will be the featured speaker at the Building Healthy Communities Summit Medina Chapter for their monthly Plant Based Potluck and Presentation.

The presentation will cover:

Native plants play a critical role in supporting pollinators, birds, and other wildlife, while helping to restore healthy soil, improve water quality, and strengthen local ecosystems. We'll explore why these plants matter and how small choices in our own yards and communities can lead to meaningful change.

You’ll learn about Wild Ones Greater Cleveland, a local chapter of the national nonprofit Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes. This chapter is focused on raising awareness, providing education, and supporting habitat restoration through community programs, public events, and native garden projects across Northeast Ohio.

For the Potluck:

Bring a low-fat, minimal-oil plant based dish to share as we gather for connection and conversation! PLEASE REGISTER ( event is free)

We aim to be zero waste so your help in making this happen is greatly appreciated. We recommend bringing your own water bottle, plates and flatware.

Chapter Leadership wants to show our appreciation to our volunteers for all their hard work so far this year. Come celebrate with us!

Whether you've volunteered at many events or one, we'd love to see you!

What can you look forward to?

--Socialize with other volunteers and chapter leadership

--Food

--Garden tour 

--Pool (bring your suits and towels!)

Parking details: Driveway fits about 7–8 cars — overflow parking is on Crosby St, just south of the house (a short walk)

Join Wild Ones Greater Cleveland as we will have an information table set up at this event!

About the event:

Discover an exciting mix of new and returning vendors offering fresh produce, baked goods, pantry staples, and more. Enjoy a fun-filled day with family-friendly activities, community resources, live music, interactive art, & cooking demonstrations - and don't forget to grab a delicious dinner from a local food truck! And you don’t want to miss the weekly beer garden.

In 2023, WOGC volunteers supported the Amherst Rotary Club (and volunteers from many other organizations) in installing a native plant garden at Rotary Park, designed by Ray Stewart, owner of Webbedfoot Designs and WOGC Board Member.  In all, volunteers put 600 plants in the ground in one day!

And what do great gardens need after installation?  Maintenance!  

At this event, WOGC will again be partnering with Webbedfoot Designs and Amherst Rotary Club, this time to help with that maintenance. 

What will volunteers be doing?  Weeding and Mulching!  And admiring all the native plants that are now in their 2nd year in the ground. 

How should volunteers prepare? Dress appropriately for gardening and for the expected weather (hats, sunscreen, etc.).  

Please register - we'll ask you a question about which activities you can support, and we'll then also have your contact info in case we need to reschedule due to weather.  

Monthly Officer/Board Meeting

Join Wild Ones Greater Cleveland as we will have an information table set up at this event!

About the event:

Discover an exciting mix of new and returning vendors offering fresh produce, baked goods, pantry staples, and more. Enjoy a fun-filled day with family-friendly activities, community resources, live music, interactive art, & cooking demonstrations - and don't forget to grab a delicious dinner from a local food truck! And you don’t want to miss the weekly beer garden.

We invite you to our Wild Ones Greater Cleveland monthly chapter meeting!

Educational Topic: TBD

Speaker: TBD

Discussion Topic: TBD

NEW: Starting in July, we'll ask you to register for the chapter meeting Zoom series using the registration link below in order to receive a link to join the meeting.  Register once and you'll be registered for all the meetings for the rest of the year.  This will help us keep our Zoom meetings secure, but they are still free and open to the public.  Please join us!

Monthly Officer/Board Meeting

Join Wild Ones Greater Cleveland as we will have an information table set up at this event!

About the event:

Discover an exciting mix of new and returning vendors offering fresh produce, baked goods, pantry staples, and more. Enjoy a fun-filled day with family-friendly activities, community resources, live music, interactive art, & cooking demonstrations - and don't forget to grab a delicious dinner from a local food truck! And you don’t want to miss the weekly beer garden.

We invite you to our Wild Ones Greater Cleveland monthly chapter meeting!

Educational Topic: TBD

Speaker: TBD

Discussion Topic: TBD

NEW: Starting in July, we'll ask you to register for the chapter meeting Zoom series using the registration link below in order to receive a link to join the meeting.  Register once and you'll be registered for all the meetings for the rest of the year.  This will help us keep our Zoom meetings secure, but they are still free and open to the public.  Please join us!

Details coming soon! 

Monthly Officer/Board Meeting

Details coming soon! 

We invite you to our Wild Ones Greater Cleveland monthly chapter meeting!

Educational Topic: TBD

Speaker: TBD

Discussion Topic: TBD

NEW: Starting in July, we'll ask you to register for the chapter meeting Zoom series using the registration link below in order to receive a link to join the meeting.  Register once and you'll be registered for all the meetings for the rest of the year.  This will help us keep our Zoom meetings secure, but they are still free and open to the public.  Please join us!

Monthly Officer/Board Meeting

We invite you to our Wild Ones Greater Cleveland monthly chapter meeting!

Educational Topic: TBD

Speaker: TBD

Discussion Topic: TBD

NEW: Starting in July, we'll ask you to register for the chapter meeting Zoom series using the registration link below in order to receive a link to join the meeting.  Register once and you'll be registered for all the meetings for the rest of the year.  This will help us keep our Zoom meetings secure, but they are still free and open to the public.  Please join us!

Details coming soon!