October marks Oak Awareness Month, affectionately known as OAKtober, in Illinois. It’s a special time to appreciate oak trees and the vital role they play in supporting wildlife and enriching
Spring wildflower season is a special time of year. For a short window from about mid-April to mid-May, native wildflowers bloom across the woodlands and delight our local nature lovers.
Join our webinar for planning your native garden so you have things blooming as long as possible and also have some winter interest!
When you clean up leaves, you clean out habitat for overwintering bees, butterflies, and many other critters. On the flipside, leaving leaves in place will give them the shelter they
Join Addison Public Library’s April Showers! Rain Barrels, Rain Gardens, & Native Plants presentation on Monday, April 17th!
Jim Kleinwachter of The Conservation Foundation will suggest impactful choices for home landscapes such as planting trees, using native plants, installing rain barrels and reducing chemical use.
Join us in September for our Garden Refresh Revisited webinar! After updating the Clow House native gardens this season, join us to see pictures of the plants in the ground and hear about the challenges we encountered as well as some general do’s and don’ts of planting a native garden.
In this workshop Jim Kleinwachter will present the many ways our Conservation@Home program can help you with your garden and landscape.
There are two ways of thinking when it comes to preparing your native perennial garden beds for winter: tidy things up or do nothing at all. Cleaning up gardens and
In a project we’re calling “Garden Refresh,” we transformed the native garden beds outside one of our office buildings at the McDonald Farm in Naperville. As the new plants grow
There is no more iconic butterfly than the monarch. But this symbol of delicate beauty and grace hides a truly amazing story. Learn about the life cycle of this amazing
The McDonald Farm Plant Sale will have online kits for preorder, and items at our in-person sale on Saturday, May 11th.
The big news in the conservation world this summer is that the monarch butterfly is now an endangered species. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed monarchs
Find out which edible native plants and other edible perennials flourish in the greater Chicagoland area and how these plants benefit wildlife and the ecosystem too.
McDonald Farm
10S404 Knoch Knolls Road
Naperville, IL 60565
Phone: (630) 428-4500
Fax: (630) 428-4599
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: 9:00am to 5:00pm
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