Events

Michaela Rogers, Environmental Scientist with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, presents an overview of Kentucky bat species and their varying life habits. Attendees to this presentation will learn about the places bats inhabit in the state, and how threatened and endangered bat species are monitored by biologists. This presentation will identify the needs of bats that gardeners can address and provide ideas for creating bat habitat in your own backyard.

Native peoples living in Kentucky turned to a farming way of life around A.D. 1000. Their ancestors had domesticated several native Kentucky plants long before then, and the farmers emerging 1000 years ago drew on their plant food growing techniques. Gwynn Henderson is an archaeologist and education director with WKU’s Kentucky Archaeological Survey. She will discuss this long tradition of Native farming, drawing on archaeological research conducted in Kentucky.

Insects are crucial to the plant world, which is the world in which we live. Every insect feeds on plants or is the predator of an insect that feeds on plants. It is the largest animal group in the world, but probably the one about which we know the least. Dan Patrick, a retired biology teacher, provides this introduction to the different kinds of insects we may encounter in our ramblings through nature.

Garden visit

We will walk along one of the most beautiful creeks in the Bluegrass and admire the spectacular rock faces that form its banks.

Garden tour

A wild nature discovery walk to participate in the City Nature Challenge.

Participants can bring their surplus plants in pots or, if dug up on or near the day of the exchange, wrapped in moist newspaper and plastic. All participants get to choose multiple plants to take home.

Garden visit

Beth Kelly is a wellness coach and will guide interested participants in learning strengthening exercises and stretches helpful for gardeners. 

Excursion to Fields-to-Forest Nursery and a recently reforested rural property in Fayette County.

Garden tour

Many different species of fireflies live in Kentucky. This talk will discuss some of these and explain how to distinguish between them.  It will also explain their lifecycle and make suggestions on how to manage a garden that attracts them and encourages them to make their home in it.

Garden tour

his workshop will focus on some of the lesser known invasives and those that have recently become a threat.

Garden Tour

Few things are more certain in our gardens than the seasons and the changes they bring.  As Autumn wanes and Winter beckons, many gardeners take advantage of the last warm days to cut back “dead” and dying foliage; and to do what they can to make their garden more aesthetically pleasing.  But is your garden really dead in the Winter? What life lurks there waiting until Spring?   Can that life be left undisturbed while appearances are considered?  The answer to these question can guide you toward a more life-sustaining approach to the winter garden.

Garden tour

Tree Week Lexington event

Part of Tree Week Lexington

Officials from the LFUCG Department of Parks and Recreation will present their program to take sections of Lexington parks out of mowing and to renaturalize them.