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Apply for Monarch Garden Grants!

Forward to/share this post with your local school district, educational community and nature centers! For details, read the Society’s full announcement and click on the grant application.

If needed, the NPSOT-Williamson County Chapter has resources to help with the application (examples include plant lists and sources). Contact the chapter at wilco-chapter@npsot.org for help.

Native Plant Society of Texas News:

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Bring Back the Monarchs to Texas Grant Applications Now Open

Deadline to Apply: February 10, 2025

You can help save the Monarchs!

As their number declines and the species approaches threatened status, you can help save our iconic Monarch Butterfly. Plant pollinator gardens with native plants to provide the essential nectar that will fuel their up to 3,000 mile fall migration. Include native milkweeds to support the multi-generational spring migration.

Our Bring Back the Monarch to Texas (BBMT) garden grants can help with your efforts. Applications are now open for 2025 garden grants. 

The BBMT program awards grants up to $600 to nature centers, schools, educational groups and others to help fund development of Monarch demonstration gardens or Monarch Waystations using native plants on public sites in Texas. The purpose of this program is to educate members, applicants, and the public about Monarch conservation and native plants, and to encourage restoration of Monarch habitats throughout the Texas migration flyway.

The application process must be completed by February 10th, 2025, and awardees will be announced at the beginning of March. 

Apply Today

Grants are funded by Native Plant Society of Texas, Monarch Watch and by individual and corporate donations to the BBMT program. In 2025, additional funds through the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation will be used to underwrite some of the garden grants. The Native Plant Society of Texas is grateful for everyone helping provide the funds to maintain our program.

In 2024, BBMT awarded 51 grants for a total of $29,700, delivered educational talks, helped tag Monarch butterflies with Monarch Watch, and distributed milkweed plants!

Questions – bbmt@npsot.org

Carol Clark, BBMT Committee Chair
Native Plant Society of Texas

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News Bulletin! January 9’s Chapter Meeting now Zoom only. Not in-person.

Due to the weather forecast for Central Texas on Thursday evening, our January 9, 2025 meeting will now be held by Zoom only.

We will NOT meet in-person at the Georgetown Public Library.

We hope you join us on Thursday, January 9, 2025, when our featured topic will be “Creating a Native Seed Library in your Community” with Craig Bruska.  Free and open to the public. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM.  The guest presentation begins after a short business meeting.

==> To attend via Zoom register at https://npsot-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAocu6hqDwuGd3UhMwoJnbOlAAIzd0hm42C#/registration

Read about this month’s topic and speaker in this meeting announcement.

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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.

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Updated Jan 6! Meeting Reminder January 9: “Creating a Native Seed Library in your Community” with Craig Bruska

Jan 6 News! Due to the weather forecast for Thursday evening, this meeting will now be held by Zoom only and not in-person. See below to register for the Zoom link.

Join NPSOT-Williamson County on Thursday, January 9, 2025, when our featured topic will be “Creating a Native Seed Library in your Community” with Craig Bruska.  Free and open to the public. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM.  The guest presentation begins after a short business meeting.

==> This month, we meet 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. Due to the weather forecast for Thursday evening, this meeting will now be held by Zoom only and not in-person. See below to register for the Zoom link.

==> To attend via Zoom register at https://npsot-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAocu6hqDwuGd3UhMwoJnbOlAAIzd0hm42C#/registration

Read about this month’s topic and speaker in this meeting announcement.

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.