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Chapter Join | My Membership Join My Membership Wild Ones Home Garden for Nature Grants Invasive Tree & Shrub Trade-in Native Plant Sale Wildlife Corridor Volunteers Welcome! Learning & Resources Where to Get Native Plants and Landscapers Spring and Fall Clean-up Winter Sowing Resources from West Cook Wild Ones Local Guide to Butterfly Gardening in the Chicago Region Native Pollinator Garden Basics for the Chicago Region Pretty Up Your Parkway Monarch Garden and Other Kits Care Getting Started with a Native Garden Monarch Garden Support Top 10 Native Plants for Full Sun Top 10 Native Plants for Part Sun Top 10 Native Plants for Shade Top 10 Native Plants for Shade Five Reasons Why Edible Gardens Need Native Plants List of Deer-resistant PlantsContact Us Board Join Newsletters Welcome to Wild Ones of West Cook Who are we? Since 2013, Wild Ones West Cook has been sharing information with our community about how important their landscaping choices are. We are a membership-based non-profit organization. Membership makes sure our chapter stays strong. Please consider becoming a member . We share our ideas, skills, and knowledge with others so that their yards can be hospitable to other animals. Working together, we all can ensure the continuation of ecosystem benefits we receive from healthy, beneficial animal and plant populations. We stand with science and enact what we learn in our landscapes. We accomplish these goals by: providing educational monthly programs about our native ecosystems, native gardening, and other related topics to the public; offering grants to non-profits and governmental organizations in Cook County ; these grants ensure a wider education, distribution, and connection to nature for all people; offering an Invasive Tree or Shrub Trade-in to help people learn about invasive plants and take action to remove these destructive plants and plant beneficial ones instead; providing our expertise to local policy makers; hosting a native plant sale , which helps people get ethically sourced and sustainably grown plants from local growers at a great price; creating a social media community where we share what’s happening in local gardens as well as scientific articles that connect to native plants and biodiversity; collaborating with and supporting other local environmental organizations; developing online and print resources; sponsoring conferences where we have nationally recognized speakers present; creating a wildlife corridor (stepping stone model) that offers refuge to all kinds of beneficial urban wildlife. If you’d like to help us accomplish all of these goals (and more!), please consider volunteering. Click here to sign up: Volunteer. If you’d like to receive our latest news, sign up for our newsletter. Click here to sign-up: Get Newsletter If you would like to view any of our past recorded programs, you can click here to go to our YouTube channel . Search for: Upcoming Events Parkway Plantings: Native Gardens in Urban Zones May 19th, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Native Plant Sale Pick-Up Jun 6th, 12:00 pm to Jun 8th, 1:30 pm Edibles & Natives: Incorporating Native Plants into Vegetable Gardens Jun 23rd, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm View All Events Recent Posts Invasive Tree and Shrub Trade-in 2024 Photo Contest: Native Plants in Winter 2023 Accomplishment Wild Ones West Cook Bylaws Identifications for Targeted Invasive Plants for Trade-in Program Girl Scout Chimney Swift Project in Oak Park Announcing 2023 Garden for Nature Grantees Winter Sowing Resources from West Cook Wild Ones 2022 Photo Contest Results Wild Ones West Cook Accomplishments 2022 Home Garden for Nature Grants Invasive Tree & Shrub Trade-in Native Plant Sale Wildlife Corridor Volunteers Welcome! Learning & ResourcesChapter Bylaws Join Renew Connect with Wild Ones West Cook Chapter Copyright© 2024 Wild Ones Natural Landscapers, Ltd. This website, logo, images, and content are the proprietary property of Wild Ones ®. Any use of these items, without prior written approval, is strictly prohibited. Disclaimer: Wild Ones Natural Landscapers, Ltd., including its chapters and the, directors, officers, members, volunteers, and employees of each of them, make no express or implied guarantee or warranty about concerning any plant or garden recommendation or advice given by any of them. Landowners should consult with their own native landscape professional or other expert for all such advice...