Lake Geneva Area Conservancy Comes Alive: Plants, Bees, and the Fight for the Watershed
Spring has broken over Geneva Lake like a fever, and the Lake Geneva Area Conservancy isn’t wasting a minute of it. The annual Native Plant Sale is open for orders — deadline May 1, pickup May 22 at the Mill House — and if you’ve been meaning to do something useful with that scraggly patch of lawn that’s been mocking you since October, this is your moment. Order here.
These aren’t your big-box nursery ornamentals pumped full of fertilizer and destined to die the moment you stop babysitting them. These are natives — plants that evolved here, that know the soil and the cold and the particular cruelty of a Wisconsin spring. Once established, they need almost no water, zero fertilizer, and they’ll feed every pollinator in the county while holding your topsoil in place when the rains come hard off the lake. The ecosystem, in other words, actually wants them there.
If you don’t know where to start, the Conservancy’s Conservation@Home program will send someone to your property and tell you exactly what to plant and where. They run the same service for HOAs, workplaces, schools, and nonprofits — the whole apparatus, pointed at the watershed.
Meanwhile, the Bees Need You
On Tuesday, April 21 at 4 p.m., the Conservancy descends on Big Foot High School for Buzzing Back: Identify & Support our Local Bumblebees — free admission, registration required. Create an account, find “Buzzing Back” in the left column, and get yourself signed up before the seats fill. Register here.
Keep It Blue
And if you want something for the refrigerator door, sign up for the Keep It Blue program — a pledge to take better care of the lakes and waterways that make this place worth living in. Mail or drop off the form at the Conservancy office. They’ll send you a sign. Small gesture, real stakes.
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