Saturday, July 26, 2025

FREE ADMISSION

Event and Activity Schedule

9:00am – Noon: Self-guided tours at local prairies (see site details below)

12:30pm -1:30pm Keynote Speaker Mariette Nowak at Maywood (indoors)

11am-12:30pm and 1:30-3pm Live Music by Eric (Guitar/Vocals) & Cory (Upright Bass) from The Belle Weather. Music located on the front lawn – bring your lawn chairs or use park benches

11am-3pm at Maywood:

• Community Partner Booths: Friends of the Gottfried Prairie and Arboretum, Sheboygan River Basin Partnership, Friends of North Point, Wisconsin Garden Club Federation Environmental School
• Food Trucks onsite: No Pork on your Fork and Frost-Bite!
• Maywood Prairie Tours
• Yard Games and Activities for all ages
• Make a Prairie Wand
• Free seed samples and info (while supplies last)
• Enter Door Prize Drawings
• Purchase Maywood Prairie Benefit Raffle Tickets: $10 each or 3 for $20 (cash only). Chances to win a Native Plant Package from Johnson’s Nursery ($900 value), a Char-Broil 4 Burner Gas Grill from Trilling True Value Hardware ($400 value), or a Garden Tool and Decor Package ($200 value) from DRAMM and La Valley Home and Habitat. Drawing for the raffle takes place at our Fall Plant Sale Pick-up on September 18, 2025 at 6:30 pm.

Keynote Speaker

Mariette Nowak
Author of “Birdscaping for Wisconsin and the Great Lakes Region“

Mariette will be presenting on creating a pocket prairie in your yard. She will discuss the best plants to provide a feast of insects and seed for prairie birds. 

Presentation will begin at 12:30pm in the Pavilion at Maywood.

Featured Prairies
View 9am-Noon day of the event

Ralph’s Prairie
W3143 Cty Rd FF, Howard Grove
Owner: Ralph Grunewald
This well-established, 2-acre prairie was seeded by hand in 1995 by Randy Powers, founder of Prairie Future Seed Co.

Sheboygan Water Utility Site
4015 Erie Ave, Sheboygan
This 1-acre prairie was developed to reduce maintenance needs around the water reservoirs. It was seeded in 2009. This site along with the nearby Sheboygan County Planning and Conservation beds are examples of how our local municipalities are incorporating native plantings for practical purposes.