Warm Your Hands, Share Your Heart

Glencoe South School 266 Linden Ave, Glencoe, IL, United States

In honor of Martin Luther King Day School District #35 invites families and the community to learn more about local service organizations and opportunities to volunteer or contribute. The event will take place in the South School Cafeteria. Each organization will showcase their organization’s mission, services, and volunteer opportunities. The Friends of the Green Bay […]

Water in a Time of Rapidly Changing Climate

Virtual

Reliable supplies of water are threatened by scarcity, excess, wild fluctuations between these extremes, and pollution. In the Great Lakes region, some communities enjoy ample supplies and others do not, but they all face the "threat multiplier" of a rapidly changing climate. Kimberly Gray, chair of the civil and environmental engineering department at Northwestern University, […]

2022 Green Bay Trail Photo Contest Artist reception

Glencoe Youth Services 680 Greenwood Ave, Glencoe, United States

It's been said that the two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. Come see the Green Bay Trail in a new light as GYS proudly presents winning photographs of the 2022 Friends of the Green Bay Trail Photo Contest. Join us for the opening reception as the photographers discuss […]

Not Your Mother’s Garden

Virtual

Landscape designer Deborah Chud returns to take the audience on a photo tour of her highly unusual New Perennialist-inspired garden and describes the design principles underlying it. Many of the plants are unfamiliar—even to experienced and knowledgeable gardeners. These “new perennials” were all taken from a distinctive canon of plants, and they exhibit the naturalistic […]

Earth Day

Celebrate Earth Day. Join us to clean up Glencoe parks and lakefront. We will meet at various locations. This is a rain or shine event, please dress for the weather.   Bring your own boots, gloves and buckets to collect debris in.  Refuse and recycling cans will be placed at each cleanup location to empty […]

Spring Bird Walk – NEW DATE

Glencoe Golf Club 621 Westly Rd., Glencoe, IL, United States

RESCHEDULED due to weather New date is 8:30 - 10AM, Thursday, May 11 Join area expert birder, Tim Joyce, of Wild Birds Unlimited, for a bird walk along the Glencoe Golf Club’s forested borders adjacent to the Chicago Botanic Garden. Dress for the weather and ground conditions. Bring binoculars and a small note pad. Tim […]

Trail Restoration Day – Volunteer Celebration

Green Bay Trail & Mary St. 278 Mary Street, Winnetka, IL, United States

Meet Trail Day stewards at the Mary St, entrance to the Green Bay Trail, south of  Glencoe’s Harbor Ave. The day’s agenda will be discussed at that time. Work will vary by season and may include installing fencing around new shrubs, planting native plants, removing invasive plants, collecting native plant seeds and seasonal trail maintenance. […]

Event Series Trail Restoration Day – Scott Ave.

Trail Restoration Day – Scott Ave.

Hubbard Woods Train Station 1065 Gage St, Winnetka, IL, United States

Chainsaw?  If you are looking for an opportunity to use your electric chainsaw, join us to clean up the Trail slope through Winnetka. If you don’t have a chainsaw we will still need help dragging cut debris to the side of the Trail to be chipped and hauled away. Meet Trail Restoration stewards at the […]

Restoring the Nachusa Grasslands

Virtual

The Nachusa Grasslands is a 3,800-acre restored tallgrass prairie near Franklin Grove, about a two-hour drive west of Glencoe. Managed by The Nature Conservancy and volunteers, it is Illinois’s largest and most biologically diverse grasslands restoration project. Naturalist and longtime Nachusa volunteer, Susan Kleiman will describe the restoration process and the introduction of the large […]

Doug Tallamy: Homegrown National Park

Virtual

Doug Tallamy returns to share his Homegrown National Park Initiative. Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home,  call for action is to use public and private spaces to support and expand biodiversity. 83% of US. land is privately owned. He challenges property owners to select ecologically effective plants, shrink lawn size and remove invasives in order […]

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