"If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you imagine, plant a garden."
- Robert Breault
2020 Wild Gardening Festival Schedule April 18-21, 2020
| Saturday, April 18 | ||
| 9 AM – 2 PM | Annual Earth Day Celebration: “Meet the Creatures” Community Day & Native Plant Sale | |
| 6 PM – 8 PM | Welcome Reception & Orientation Opening Keynote by Jane Hurwitz: The ABCs of Butterfly Gardening |
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| Sunday, April 19 | ||
| TRACK A | TRACK B | |
| 9 – 10:30 AM | Anne Trumble: Migration Station Pollinator Prairie | Max Munoz: Gardening by Color & Other Games |
| 10: 45 AM – 12:15 PM | Kate Stone: Can’t Afford to Sprawl | Mike Quinn: The Belittled Beetles |
| 1: 15 – 5:00 PM | Weslaco Awaits (Field Trip) | Mission: Gardens! (Field Trip) |
| 5:30 – 7:30 PM | Sip & Stroll: Method & Madness in the National Butterfly Center Gardens | |
| Monday, April 20 | ||
| TRACK A | TRACK B | |
| 9 – 10:30 AM | Lauren Simpson: Wildscaping: What, Why & How | Mild & Wild: Adventures at the Arroyo (All Day) |
| 10: 45 AM – 12:15 PM | Auntie D: Fight the Powers that Bee | |
| 1: 15 – 4:30 PM | Luciano Guerra: Lens on Discovery | |
| 5:30 – 7: 30 | Keynote Speakers Banquet: Better for the Bees | |
| Tuesday, April 21 | ||
| TRACK A | TRACK B | |
| 9 – 10:30 AM | Lauren Simpson: Wildscaping: What, Why & How | Stephanie Lopez: Sharing & Spreading with the Masters |
| 1: 15 – 3:00 PM | Auntie D: Fight the Powers that Bee | Stephanie Lopez: Getting to Know You with iNaturalist |
| 3:30 – 5: 00 PM | Mike Quinn: The Belittled Beetles | Raziel Flores Burquez: Plant Apropos |
| Tuesday, April 21 | ||
| TRACK C | ||
| 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM | Protect & Enhance: Native Habitat How-to (Field Trip) | |