Nature & Gardening

Upcoming events

Saturday, December 30, 2023 - 2:00pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Lindsay McDermott is a local reptile enthusiast who has recently pursued her passion of sharing reptiles/invertebrates with children and families. Today she will bring several of her various lizards, snakes, arachnids and more to the library to get...

Tweens Kids Families Nature & Gardening

Sunday, January 14, 2024 - 2:00pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Lisa Hinzman Howard or as she’s known in the gardening world, Midwest Garden Gal, will cover GIY (Grow It Yourself): Veggies 101, to encourage gardeners to adopt the worldwide trend to grow your food to know your food. The program covers soil...

Adults Nature & Gardening

Sunday, February 11, 2024 - 2:00pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Author Cornelia “Connie” Mutel assembled a cast of premier Iowa scientists and environmental activists to write Tending Iowa’s Land: Pathways to a Sustainable Future (University of Iowa Press, 2022) to examine our state’s current environmental...

Adults Nature & Gardening

Sunday, March 10, 2024 - 2:00pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Geoff Mouming, from Impact7G Sustainable Environmental Solutions, will join us to speak about Trees. Geoff is an admitted and unapologetic tree hugger and believes tree selection isn’t an art form but it does take purposeful planning to select the...

Adults Nature & Gardening

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 6:30pm

Meeting Room A

Based on decades of observing, thinking, and writing about Iowa's natural history and transformed ecology, human-intensified natural disasters, Connie Mutel will summarize the complex evolution of Iowa's environmental challenges, call...

Adults Current Issues Guest Speaker Nature & Gardening