Thank you to all the participants of our Spring 2025 Training Class. This has definitely been the most fun I have had in a LONG time! I’m actually sad that the classes are ending. The presenters are fabulous people that I would love to get to hang around with. My only regret is that I…
🏠 Our New Storage Facility
By: Bill Hopkins We now have a solution to our storage needs. Since our beginning our members have had to store our chapter supplies and equipment in their garages and spare bedrooms. You can’t imagine how much space it took. Plus, it was inconvenient to have to arrange meetings to transfer equipment from one person…
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📖 Book Review: Lab Girl
by Bill Hopkins People are like plants: they grow toward the light. I chose science because science gave me what I needed–a home as defined in the most literal sense: a safe place to be. Lab Girl by Hope Jahren is actually two books in one. Every other chapter is a little treatise on plants or…
🤝 Annual Meeting 2024
By: Peggy Tolboom When it is time for the annual meeting, I am at my computer when registration begins so I can sign up for the field trips. For this event, I drove through early morning darkness and Austin traffic to arrive at Travis Audubon Chaetura Canyon Sanctuary. I ended up in a neighborhood and…
🦆Chapter Field Trip to Corpus Christi, Rockport Beach, and Port Aransas
Chapter members visited Corpus Christi and surrounding areas in March 2025 for the annual chapter field trip. They visited the Port Aransas Nature Preserve, Leonbelle Turnbull Birding Center, Joan and Scott Holt Paradise Pond, Charlie’s Pasture, Rockport Beach, Mustang Island State Park, International Crane Foundation Center, Powderhorn Ranch Wildlife Management Area, Texas State Aquarium, and…
🌻 Prairie Oaks Chapter Receives a Grant of $500 from the Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT)
By: Gordon Lee The chapter applied for and received a grant from the Native Plant Society of Texas for $500 to help purchase butterfly host and nectar plants for the prairie portion of the Bosque River Nature Center (BRNC). The purpose of the grant is connected to the Bring Back the Monarchs (BBTM) program, so,…
🏆 2025 Awards Ceremony: Celebrating Our Achievements
🎉Milestones: Dayna Inbody: 4250 Linda Wood: 1250 Marsha Stephens: 1250 Bill Hopkins: 1000/ Pin collected Lynn Wood: 1000/ Pin collected Katie Moses: 750 Karen Aho: 500/ Pin collected Janet Dawson: 250/ Pin collected Lee Gordon: 250/ Pin collected Judy Warner: 250/ Pin Collected 👏Initial Certification: Pam Chamberlain 🤝Recertifications: Karen Aho Bruce Bradshaw Gail Bradshaw Layne…
🌱 Three Steps to a Native Plant Garden
Have you been hesitating to start a native plant garden because you don’t know which plants to use? Then this post is for you. In just three easy steps you can find the native plants that will work best for your site. Step One: Learn what ecoregion you are in Texas is a big state…
🤝 2024 Texas Master Naturalist State Meeting
(Things to do When I Retire, Again) By: Marsha Stephens Having been bitten by the state meeting bug in 2023, I eagerly got lined up to sign up as soon as the portal opened for registration for the 2024 meetings. And the adventure began immediately, when I (along with hundreds of others) was unable to…