Calendar of Events and Programs

Join Grange Insurance Audubon Center to kick off the 2025 Native Plant Backyard Challenge. Local environmental, gardening, and native plant focused organizations will be tabling this event, including Wild Ones Columbus.

The mission of the Native Plant Backyard Challenge (NPBYC) is to promote native plants in central Ohio by recruiting households to transform a portion of their yards into native habitat. The challenge works to ensure that participants become ambassadors for native plants in their community.

Registration and fee required. Please click the Read More button for more information.

Come for a guided walk at Sawmill Wetlands Educational Area on April 12, 10am to 12noon. You will hear the amazing story about how this 17 acre place was almost lost to a developer and was saved by the work of neighbors and local environmental organizations. Walk the boardwalk to see the wetlands with their fairy shrimp and other macroinvertebrates. We can’t promise flying squirrels but Tim Bischoff who monitors the 17 birdhouses on the property knows which houses they inhabit. This should be the perfect time to see spring ephemerals in the wooded wetlands and along the footpath. We will meet in the parking lot at 2654 Sawmill Place Boulevard 43235

Click here for more information about the Sawmill Wetlands.

A wide variety of native flowering plants, grasses, shrubs, and trees will be available from Wild Ones Columbus and local vendors Natives in Harmony, Leaves for Wildlife, and Scioto Gardens.

We plan to publish a list of plants that will be available at this year's sale closer to the event date. In the meantime, click here to view a list of plants that were offered at our 2024 sale.

Be sure to stop by!

Volunteers are needed to staff this event. Please click here to sign up. Thank you!

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon!