The Discovery Garden, a project by the community cultivators

06/28/2024

Getting excited for our 9th Annual Urban Farm tour! Please consider visiting some of these 7 amazing backyard gardens or community gardens! Register here for this free self-guided tour! 

Join us for the Urban Farm Tour in the Riverbend! We are also looking for volunteers to help greet tourists at various gardens and farms. Register to attend and/or volunteer at this event!

06/19/2024

n celebration of Pollinator Week, which takes place from June 17 to 23, Sierra Club invites members, volunteers, and partners to a Pollinator Party this Sunday!

Join us for a Pollinator Party at the LaVista Park to celebrate our region's ongoing work to protect pollinators and create a culture of conservation! The party will feature kids crafts and activities and there will be fun for the whole family!

03/18/2024

The first spring outdoor Sierra Club volunteer day is next week: you can register at sc.org/lavistaworkday2. The Three Rivers Project of Sierra Club Illinois, the Village of Godfrey, the Godfrey Sustainability Commission, and MAS Professional Services will host ‘The Spring Edition’ of the Invasive Species Management Training and Work Day to allow community members to learn invasive species management techniques for the spring season. The event, which is set for Wednesday, March 27, will include a 30-minute training session followed by a work session to put new skills and knowledge to use. Municipalities’ public works, parks departments, right-of-way crews, and local community members are invited to register for this event at sc.org/lavistaworkday2. Many thanks in advance for helping keep our local woods healthy!

10/05/2021

One of our great partners has some incredible, free listening sessions coming up! These may be of particular interest to all beginning, urban, diversified, and direct-market farmers!

Calling all beginning, diversified/direct-market, and urban farmers! Have you registered for our virtual farmer listening sessions?

Please join us for a listening session or sessions that best fit your operation. We want to hear your story because your experience - and your farm dreams - matter.

The key of the listening sessions is to identify local needs and opportunities around conservation programs ahead of the 23 Farm Bill.

Register here: https://secure.everyaction.com/juJc_Ahd9EGJn7DyMm8pVA2

04/29/2021

Helping You Plant for Monarchs and Other Pollinators: free milkweed plugs! Your organization may request 5 seedlings for up to 3 separate sites. We are offering Swamp Milkweed and Butterfly W**d plugs. These are live plants that have been grown in a restoration nursery. Simply fill out this form to request your free milkweed plants:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4F9AxLQt9qh7PAw62RHxHNSpcXyl4n3ab7tu8A2YaOgjvAQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

04/13/2021

Please share - only 2 more days to apply!

Final 2 days to submit a concept grant application for the Outdoor Sculpture at the Jamie Hines Prairie at La Vista Park in Godfrey, IL. There is a compensation award of $2000!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQLKC6iMmzzekL7nyirHFqQcaTiRUcR8iwcae91-_e_eje9w/viewform?usp=sf_link

01/26/2021

Call for Art Proposals for permanent placement of an outdoor sculpture exploring native Illinois prairies. “Plight of the Prairie: pollinate, collaborate, create, celebrate” is the theme for the sculpture near the entrance to the new prairie. Please like the page and consider submitting your artwork and/or pass this on to your artist friends and family!
https://www.facebook.com/Call-for-Artists-Native-IL-Prairie-Outdoor-Sculpture-2021-104137111693565

Plight of the Prairie: pollinate, collaborate, re-create, celebrate!
The Sierra Club, in conjunctio

03/25/2020

The news may not of hit all the outlets last summer: the Jaime Hines Discovery Garden has been closed and dismantled. It is now the side of a prairie prep area and a butterfly garden. We will probably take this page down soon. Sorry for any inconvenience!