Online Chapter Meeting September 9: The NEST Empowerment Center’s Butterfly Garden with Bebe Johnson

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Join NPSOT-Wilco online on Thursday, September 9, 2021, at 7:00 pm,  when Bebe Johnson will present The NEST Empowerment Center’s Butterfly Garden. You must register in advance to attend.  Register at https://npsot-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvd-uoqzsoEtQv39dZMl_g5ZuVNRSRHMmM.

The NEST Empowerment Center is part of The Georgetown Project, a local nonprofit providing services that support their mission:  “A community where no child is hungry, hurt, alone, or rejected, and where all children and youth believe they are loved, respected and treated with dignity.”  The NEST Empowerment Center helps GISD high school students who are homeless, at-risk, or living in transition.

At this month’s meeting, The Georgetown Project’s Bebe Johnson will share information about their collaboration with NPSOT-Williamson County to create The NEST Chrysalis Dreamscape, located at The NEST Empowerment Center as part of its SPARKS patio.  The collaboration began in 2019.  (Some background from our chapter can be found here.)

Bebe has been The NEST Empowerment Coordinator since 2014. Previously, she worked at WilCo Juvenile Services as the Coordinator of a county-based Truancy Diversion program serving 9 school districts. Prior to that position she worked for LifeSteps, Williamson Council On Drugs, as a Prevention Director, Coalition Director and Interim Executive Director.

Bebe is a native of Eastern Williamson County and lives on the small ranch where she grew up. She is the proud owner of 2 mules, cows, chickens and dogs.

Gregg's mistflower, Conoclinium greggii
Gregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii

At every meeting, we give away a book about native plants or the meeting topic to one randomly chosen meeting attendee!


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.

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Online Chapter Meeting August 12, Edible Wild Plants of Central Texas: Summer, with Eric Knight

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Don’t miss NPSOT-Wilco’s VIRTUAL chapter meeting on Thursday, August 12, 2021, at 7:00 pm,  when Eric Knight will present Edible Wild Plants of Central Texas: Summer. You must register in advance to attend.  Register at  https://npsot-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMod-iqpzsuGtWujRcLvH_EJnKFyimHT73h.

Please note, this presentation will not be recorded for YouTube.

Eric Knight is a native Austinite and co-author of Foraging Texas: Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants in Texas. He and his wife (and co-author), Stacy Coplin, are also co-founders of Local Leaf which locally wild-harvests yaupon to make a local, sustainable, yaupon matcha powder sold at all Austin-area Whole Foods locations and on the Local Leaf website.  Eric also leads edible plant walks through Local Leaf as well as through the LBJ Wildflower Center and Earth Native Wilderness School. He is a licensed environmental engineer by day with a passion for travel, botany, rare plants, and of course, wild edible plants.

For the August 12 chapter meeting, Eric will discuss common native and non-native wild edible plants found during Central Texas summers.

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Foraging. Photo by Sam Moser.

At every meeting, we give away a book about native plants or the meeting topic to one randomly chosen meeting attendee!

Yaupon Holly, Ilex vomitoria
Yaupon Holly, Ilex vomitoria


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.

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Save the Date: Sep 25, 2021 NPSOT-Wilco Fall Native Plant Sale!

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[9/24 plant list update; 9/18 plant list update; 9/16 plant list update; 9/7 added first list, walk and speaker info]

— by Beth Erwin

The NPSOT-Williamson County Chapter is excited to be holding our Fall Native Plant Sale on Saturday, September 25, 10am-3pm, at beautiful Berry Springs Park & Preserve in Georgetown, TX.

We will have a great selection of locally grown Texas native plants just right for your yard. As always, our knowledgeable sales assistants will help you find just what you need.

We’ll also have special guest Ricky Linex with us at the sale. Ricky will lead two plant walks and share his expertise in a talk. See details at this link.

To inquire about a special order, or for other questions, contact Randy Pensabene using this form.

  • What:   NPSOT-Wilco Fall Plant Sale
  • When:  Saturday, September 25, 2021, 10:00am-3pm (We’ll stay a bit later if we haven’t sold out yet.) (Note that Ricky’s first plant walk is at 9am.)
  • Where: Tonkawa Pavilion (main group pavilion) at Berry Springs Park & Preserve, 1801 Co Rd 152, Georgetown, TX 78626
  • Who:  Open to the public and park entry is free!
  • How: Cash, checks, and major credit cards accepted.
  • We prefer that all customers wear masks and maintain social distance.

Plants to be offered as of September 24, 2021

  • The newest list is at this link=> September 24 PDF. The date is in the upper left corner on page 1.
  • If we update the list, we’ll update this blog post to link to the new file and we’ll send blog subscribers an alert so you know about the update. (Subscribe to the blog in the menu on the right-hand side of this page, “Sign me up!”)
  • Previous lists for this sale were:
    • September 7 PDF
    • September 16 PDF
    • September 18 PDF

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