Save the date for our second annual ICT Bee Fest 2024 celebrating native bees, butterflies, and other pollinators hosted by our partners at the Mid-America All-Indian Museum and organized by Grassland Groupies and the Bee City Wichita Committee. Over 500 visitors enjoyed this free event last year, and 2024 is going to be even better. […]
Committee meetings are free and open to the public, hosted at the Advanced Learning Library in the Keeney Stevens Board Room on the fourth Tuesday of every month. 6:30-7:30 PM: Public comment period. Community members are welcome to give ideas or feedback on the initiative. 7:00-7:30 PM: Updates and discussion about the project led by […]
Take a walk in the park with fellow queer, trans, and LGBTQ+ nature lovers to celebrate Pride by getting outside. Meet in the parking lot behind the extension office, where the Riparian Woodland Nature Trail begins.
We're creating Blackout Poetry from published articles about the gender, sex, and sexual diversity that exists in the natural world. 9 am - 3 pm at the Big Gay Market in Riverside Park (while supplies last). Find our booth near the Kansas Wildlife Exhibit, and support the local LGBTQ+ community.
It’s a simple program: you + us + bugs. Grassland Groupies will teach you how to use sweep nets, aerial nets, and other bug-catching tools provided by us. Then we’ll take an informal inventory of whatever arthropods we can find in Pawnee Prairie Park, to gaze in wonder at their little faces and then log […]
Take a walk in the park with fellow queer, trans, and LGBTQ+ nature lovers to celebrate Pride by getting outside. Meet in the parking lot behind the extension office, where the Riparian Woodland Nature Trail begins.
Update 6/17/25, @ 11 AM: Due to flood warnings and predicted continuing rain tonight, we will NOT be meeting. Photographers enjoy nature at a different speed, and this get-together is for you. Bring your photography tool of choice for an instruction-lite meander through Oak Park led by an experienced naturalist. Enhance your observation, your curiosity, […]
Bring a notebook or sketchbook and a portable art tool of your choice. Walk the trail and pause when something catches your eye to sketch, document, and journal your experiences. Optional: consider bringing a folding stool or chair Gather at the end of the trail to share our journal entries with each other.
Committee meetings are free and open to the public, hosted at the Advanced Learning Library in the Keeney Stevens Board Room on the fourth Tuesday of every month. 6:30-7:30 PM: Public comment period. Community members are welcome to give ideas or feedback on the initiative. 7:00-7:30 PM: Updates and discussion about the project led by […]
Take a walk in the park with fellow queer, trans, and LGBTQ+ nature lovers to celebrate Pride by getting outside. Meet in the parking lot behind the extension office, where the Riparian Woodland Nature Trail begins.
