STROLL the TRAIL! Enjoy its summer blooms. Start with breakfast bites sponsored by Charles Schwab. Visit more than 20 FREE activity, information, and demonstration locations. Visit the butterfly hatchery. Participate in the rope challenge, test your hand at plein air painting, and nature crafts. Tap your toes to music Click HERE for more information and […]
Meet at 9 AM. We will share the work plan there. Enjoy the trail’s blooms, butterflies while collecting seeds and removing invasive plants. Wear closed toe shoes. Bring work gloves and pruners if you have some. We will not cancel for sprinkles but will do so for heavy rain or other weather conditions. Bike to […]
The bright colors and extraordinary migration habits of monarch butterflies have made them one of our most beloved insects. Their populations have fallen drastically in recent decades. In July 2022 they were classified as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the world’s most comprehensive scientific authority on the status of […]
Meet at 9 AM. We will share the work plan there. Enjoy the trail’s blooms, butterflies while collecting seeds and removing invasive plants. Wear closed toe shoes. Bring work gloves and pruners if you have some. We will not cancel for sprinkles but will do so for heavy rain or other weather conditions. Bike to […]
PROGRAM CANCELLED We hope to reschedule this program for the spring of 2023. Visit the Friends’ website for program updates and event calendar.
Decorate yourself, family, dogs, strollers or wagons with lights and things that glow. No candles or open flames, please! Meet at Glencoe’s Shelton Park playground to mark the passing of the year’s longest period of darkness. Enjoy the Friends’ presentation of the Abbot’s Bromley Horn Dance, an ancient musical procession historically performed at this time […]
Doug Tallamy returns to the Glencoe Library to share details about his newest initiative, Homegrown National Park. The author of Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants and other acclaimed books on environment, Tallamy is calling on public and private spaces to offset the rapidly rising impacts of climate change by supporting and […]
The Friend’s fourth annual Green Bay Trail Day is a FREE celebration of the Trail’s restoration, made possible with the contributions of hundreds of volunteers, community organizations and generous donors. The Trail is now a multi-community recreational site on which to bike or stroll to enjoy its restored natural setting, Festivities will offer family activities, […]
Buckthorn is a highly invasive shrub that forms dense thickets and crowds out native plants. Join this virtual program and learn how to identify buckthorn, find out why it threatens wildlife habitat and native species, and learn how to control it in your own landscape. Alternative replacement shrubs will be discussed. Presented by Matt Evans, […]
Join the Friends of the Green Bay Trail for this popular event! Decorate yourself, family, dogs, strollers or wagons with lights and things that glow. No candles or open flames, please! Meet at Glencoe’s Shelton Park playground for a festive musical presentation. Stroll the Green Bay trail to sing songs and celebrate the arrival of […]