The video recording from our chapter meeting on April 11, 2024 featuring “Drought-Tolerant Native Plants: Nothing Works Like Natives” with Randy Pensabene is now available on our YouTube channel. Randy’s presentation starts after a short chapter business meeting and NPSOT state update.
Note on 4/18: Though the meeting title page below says “March”, it’s really our April 11, 2024 meeting. We’ll correct that video frame soon but, meanwhile, we wanted you to have access to the recording right away.
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Business slides for recent chapter meetings are here, listed by date. (If this particular meeting’s business slides were not added yet, they will be soon. Please check back later.)
NPSOT-Williamson County meetings are free and open to the public. We hope you attend! Meetings may be in person, virtual, or both, so be sure to check details in the meeting announcement. Meetings are announced on our website, our calendar and Facebook.
Join NPSOT-Williamson County on Thursday, May 9, 2024, when our featured topic will be “Archeology in Texas Botanical Gardens / Ethnobotany in Texas Botanical Gardens” with Susan Reynolds, ED, Texas Botanical Gardens & Native American Interpretive Center.
Free and open to the public. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM. Our guest speaker’s presentation begins after a short business meeting.
==> This month, if you attend in person, we’re at the Georgetown Public Library, 2nd floor, 402 West 8th St, Georgetown, TX 78626. Come early (6:30 PM) for expert advice, to check out the seed swap board, or just to visit.
About our topic: There will be two separate, but short presentations. 1. Archeology – Topics covered will include Texas prehistoric peoples, the Texas Archeological Society, artifacts in the gardens, active sites in Mills County. 2. Ethnobotany – Definition, role in the creation of the Texas Botanical Gardens, interesting plants growing there.
Texas Botanical Gardens video link. Provided by speaker.
About our speaker: Susan Reynolds retired from a 30 year career as an award winning band director in California and Texas in 2022. She has always loved plants, gardening, and digging things up from the side of the road and now serves her community as the Executive Director of the Texas Botanical Gardens and Native American Interpretive Center (TBG) in Goldthwaite, TX. She is the organizer, grant writer, fundraiser, and “general flunkie” for the Board of Directors. On March 28, 2024, Susan spearheaded the Grand Opening of the new Demonstration Gardens at the TBG’s office, a ground up, grassroots project that netted nearly $52,000 in grants and just over $18,000 in gifts.
Susan and her husband of 40 years enjoy her retirement and the “Mimi and Pop Pop” time they get with their two grandsons, Asher and Shiloh.
At every meeting, we give away a book — about native plants or the meeting topic — to one randomly chosen in-person attendee!
Have an idea for a speaker? Let Program Leader Susie Hickman know via email to wilco-chapter@npsot.org.
NPSOT-Williamson County meetings are free and open to the public. We hope you attend! Meetings may be in person, virtual, or both, so be sure to check details in the meeting announcement. Meetings are announced on our website, our calendar and Facebook. See upcoming topics on our page Wilco Home or on our Calendar.
Volunteer with us Saturday, April 20th from 8:30am-Noon in west Liberty Hill as we rescue plants such as Prairie Beardtongue (Penstemon cobaea) from a 9 acre site prior to construction. There is street parking available next to the site. Find the details and register on our SignUpGenius page.
You must be a current NPSOT member (any chapter) and at least 18 to attend the plant rescue. (Join NPSOT or renew here.)
Learn more about the Native Plant Rescue Project at this link.
Prairie Beardtongue, Penstemon cobaea, at the rescue site
