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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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Report from Hidden Springs Preserve

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— by Kathy Galloway

Saturday early morning on July 10…    It started with lots of rain, but 16 intrepid plant people braved the elements and it did not dampen their enthusiasm.  Everyone headed to Hidden Springs Preserve for this month’s field trip.

We divided into two groups and surveyed about one half-mile along the driveway of the first 300 acres of this total 900-acre property.  We found a diverse group of plants to identify on the limestone cut plains soil.  Due to the July rains lots of plants were still in bloom, including Mountain Pinks in abundance and Wooly Iron Weed. We found many new plants and some that still need to be identified.  We saw White Rosinweed and we had not found this particular plant in any of the other Williamson County Parks.

This was our second of twelve field trips to this preserve. We will visit this property every calendar month of the year.   It may take 2-3 years to complete the entire plant list.  When we have a date for the next trip to Hidden Springs, we’ll announce it in a blog post and on Facebook, and we’ll put the information on our Field Trip web page.  (And remember, people with all levels of experience and inexperience are welcome!)

You’ll find photos from the July 10, 2021 field trip to Hidden Springs at this link in our Field Trip Album on Google Photos.

You can download the current version of the plant list at this link (or navigate to it via Photos-> Plant Surveys-> Hidden Springs Plant List).

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