Friends of Lake Wingra has provided funding through our Rain Garden Grant program for a rain garden to be installed at Blessed Sacrament Church. The project is being organized as an Eagle Scout project by Tom O'Shea. The rain garden will be installed over 2 days, Saturday May 21 and Sunday May 22. Please stop […]
Help us to combat the Garlic Mustard Invasion of the Odana Rain Garden and surrounding Odana Woods. Friends and neighbors have been working in this area over the last few years to remove garlic mustard and other invasive plants. Progress has been made and native plants are re-emerging! Please help us continue our work to […]
Friends of Lake Wingra holds monthly board meetings, usually on the first Thursday of the month, from 630-830pm. The meetings are usually held in one of the meeting rooms at the Sequoya Public Library, stop at the desk for directions to the correct room. Board meetings are open to the public, if you wish to […]
Friends of Lake Wingra holds monthly board meetings, usually on the first Thursday of the month, from 630-830pm. The meetings are usually held in one of the meeting rooms at the Sequoya Public Library, stop at the desk for directions to the correct room. Board meetings are open to the public, if you wish to […]
Purchase monarchs and monarch-rearing supplies (instructions included). All Saturdays and Sundays through the end of August, 9-11 am, at 536 Gately Terrace, Madison. Drop in for an informal look at our breeding operation, purchase supplies, and see monarchs at all stages. Learn how to find eggs. Before coming, check FoLW's facebook page, in case we decide […]
Monarchs for Kids at Sequoya Branch. Tuesdays 2-4 pm; Fridays 10:00 am-12:00. See monarchs in all the stages of their life cycle. You can feed butterflies, and watch butterflies emerge from their chrysalis.
Monarch Action Day at Olbrich Gardens (plus Blooming Butterflies in the dome). Monarchs for Kids will be there. You can purchase milkweed plants, monarch eggs, caterpillars, or chrysalids--plus equipment you need to raise them.
The Catholic Multicultural Center Community Environment Program invites you to join a fun neighborhood creek clean-up event. Volunteers will get the chance to paddle down the creek in a canoe, or for those who prefer solid ground, walk alongside the creek, picking up litter both in and around the creek. Afterwards we will go back […]
Monarchs for Kids will be there. You can purchase milkweed plants, monarch eggs, caterpillars, or chrysalids--plus equipment you need to raise them.
Science Thursday at Wingra Park Boat House. Discover how helping monarchs can improve the health of both the lake and your neighborhood. Learn how to raise monarchs. See monarchs at all stages of their life cycle, and take some home.
