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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Online Chapter Meeting July 8: Annual Chapter Review with Field Trips Update, Beth Erwin’s “Wicked Plants of Central Texas”, and Chapter Election Results

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Join NPSOT-Wilco online on Thursday, July 8, 2021, at 7:00 pm, for our annual chapter meeting.   You must register in advance to attend. See Zoom instructions later in this post.

We have two main events: news from the Field Trip Committee on what they’ve been up to and plans for upcoming field trips; and Wicked Plants of Central Texas, a short program by Beth Erwin about a few of the plants you might meet when out and about in our area that you should socially distance yourself from. We’ll also announce election results* for the new chapter board that takes office on September 1, 2021.

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

* Election Note to Chapter Members: No later than June 23, an online ballot and instructions will be emailed to you at the email address you have on record with the Society’s state office. A blog post will go out the same day to alert you to look for the email. Voting will close on July 6.  [UPDATE: The online ballot was emailed to members on June 21. The blog post is here.]

How to attend:  

Old Man's Beard, Clematis drummondii
Old Man’s Beard, Clematis drummondii. Photo by Bob Kamper.

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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