Welcome!

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Habitat Gardening in Central New York is a local chapter of the national organization Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes.

Wild Ones promotes environmentally friendly, sound landscaping to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration, and establishment of native plant communities.

Become a Wild Ones HGCNY member and you’ll not only get the Wild Ones Journal and other member benefits, but you’ll be supporting Wild Ones in its mission to preserve biodiversity.

Here are our current programs and other Wild Ones chapters’ programs. Some chapters have Zoom meetings open to all as well as some recorded past presentations.

Free e-newsletter

Stay up-to-date by subscribing to our FREE newsletter which includes not only HGCNY events, but also habitat tips.

Send a subscribe request to info@hgcny.org

Monthly programs and events

Program meeting

Find out more about HGCNY meetings and events. Although we encourage people to become members of Wild Ones, we welcome everyone to our meetings and events.

Recorded presentations on YouTube

HGCNY YouTube channel

Wild Ones has hosted prominent speakers, such as a presentation by Doug Tallamy in July 2020: Nature’s Best Hope. Anyone can register for live webinars or view the recorded webinars from the Wild Ones website.

Check out HGCNY’s YouTube channel to view some of our previous meeting presentations.

Other HGCNY resources

Fact sheets

We have a variety of free factsheets about habitat gardening.

2023 Native Plant Shopping Guide

Where can you find native plants?

We generally have Spring and Fall native plant sales.

Download our free Central New York Native Plant Shopping Guide, updated each year.

Our discussion course

Learn about Caring for Our Piece of the Earth by downloading our free discussion course. Great for small groups, but individuals can use it, too.

Habitat Gardening for Life Presentation

We have presentations available on a variety of topics.

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