Our mission
Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities.
Here are our Wild Ones Habitat Gardening in Central New York chapter bylaws.
What HGCNY does
We have monthly programs, which are free and open to the public. We also have an annual field trip in the spring and Show Me, Help Me tours in the summer.
Our plant sales help get native plants planted out there in CNY and, equally important, support local native plant nurseries, helping make native plants easier to obtain and the common sense default choice for home landscapes.
YOU can become a Wild One!
To support our Wild Ones mission, we encourage you to become an official member of Wild Ones. And when you’re a member of Wild Ones, you’re automatically a member of HGCNY! Wild Ones members receive the Wild Ones Journal.
HGCNY Election for Board of Directors Nov. 1 through Nov. 15, 2023
As always, we’ll be holding our HGCNY election but this time with a difference.
HGCNY will be adopting the Wild Ones bylaws before the end of the year, as all chapters are required to do. [You can read the bylaws on the Wild Ones website.]
In the past, we’ve elected a slate of officers directly, but in accordance with our new bylaws, Wild Ones HGCNY members will be voting on a slate of three people for the Board of Directors, who will then elect the three Principal Officers (President, Secretary, and Treasurer) and appoint other officers (Membership and others). And as the bylaws allow, the terms will be for four years.
“Polls” will open for voting from Nov. 1 through Nov. 15. Details will be available here on Nov. 1 and in the Nov. 1 newsletter. [If you don’t receive our free newsletter, send a subscribe request to info@hgcny.org.]
ONLY official dues-paying Wild Ones members can vote in this election. In other words, receiving this newsletter and/or attending meetings does not constitute membership. If you aren’t yet a member or haven’t renewed your membership, join the Wild Ones HGCNY chapter or renew your membership by clicking on the button below. Your membership supports the Wild Ones mission of preserving biodiversity with native plants and natural landscaping. Thank you!
Wild Ones receives an award!
We’re pleased to share the news that our national organization, Wild Ones, received “The Tom Dodd, Jr. Award of Excellence” which was presented at the 2022 Cullowhee Conference on Native Plants in the Landscape in Cullowhee, North Carolina on Friday, July 22, 2022.
This prestigious award has been given annually since 1987 to individuals or organizations for excellence in one or more of: conservation of native flora in situ; studying and promoting the understanding of our native flora; building expertise in the propagation/cultivation of native plants; or the use of native plants in a diversity of natural and designed landscapes. Wild Ones was recognized for our efforts in the area of native plant education. Prior recipients have included Lady Bird Johnson, Larry Mellichamp, Wild Ones Lifetime Honorary Director Doug Tallamy, Wild Ones Front Range (Colorado) Chapter member Jan Midgley and Wild Ones Middle Tennessee Chapter members Mike Berkley and Terri Barnes.