The club encourages members to garden organically and to strengthen the harmony among plants, earth, animals, and people. The Environmental Group promotes educational programs that center on environmental stewardship and conservation.
Programs for this year - 2022-3
Details available at the meetings and in the newsletter.
October 13: A tour of the Jordan Lake Educational Forest will talk about forest health and sustainability and how important forests are to all of us. Lunch afterwards.
November 10: , 8305 Camp Durant Road, Raleigh. The American Wildlife Refuge will bring four rescued birds to Durant Nature Park and will talk to us about rescuing raptors and how they beneft the environment. More about the AWR.
February 16: Neuse Riverkeeper, Samantha Krop, will meet with us at JCRA for a talk about the Riverkeepers’ mission to preserve the health and beauty of our river basins.
April 20: We will go to the Prairie Ridge Ecostation with a guide who will talk about sustaining birds and wildlife and why we should care.
May 10: Annual Plant Exchange and Tea at JCRA. Bring a sweet or savory snack to share and a plant to exchange. Get to know other RGC members and see what’s growing in each other’s gardens.
May 18: We will meet at the garden of Helen Yoest to learn about natural gardening and bees. Founder of Bee Better Naturally, Helen has spent a lifetime caring for the environment through gardening. Learn more.
Previous Environmental
Group Activities
Previous activities of the Environmental Group have included visits to nature preserves featuring native plants, community gardens, decorating bird houses for the Raulston Blooms! competition, and hearing about Raleigh plans for conservation. We usually finish each year with a plant exchange and tea.
From The Season: Jeff Beane’s Guide to Natural North Carolina
Sept 17: BugFest, NC State Museum of Natural Sciences annual expo, celebrating insects, returns in-person this year. Theme: Millipedes and centipeds. For info, visit www.naturalsciences.org.
Sept 20: Flowering dogwood berries are ripe. Watch trees for migrating scarlet tanagers, rose-breasted grosbeaks, and other birds that relish these berries.
Sept 24: National Public Lands Day! Visit your public lands for a hike. NC is favored with many: federal national wildlife refuges, national forests, national seashores, state public game lands, state parks, state forests, and local parks and greenways.