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Scenic Roots

Seeds of Learning at the Tennessee Valley Chapter of Wild Ones

By Ray Bassett
Published August 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM EDT
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A butterfly sits on a false sunflower (Heliopsis helianthodes).
Jason Hood / Tennessee Valley Chapter of Wild Ones
A butterfly sits on a false sunflower (Heliopsis helianthodes).

Here in the Chattanooga area, the Tennessee Valley Chapter of Wild Ones is a nonprofit resource for landscaping with native plants.

One of the Chapter’s programs - the Chattanooga Area Pollinator Partnership - aims to restore pollinator habitats.

The partnership - or CHAPP - offers Seeds of Education grants to local schools to help build butterfly gardens and other pollinator habitats.

This fall, the Chapter will host its first distinguished lecture - Friday, October 3rd - here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Angela Dittmar of UTC and Holli Ritchie are board members of the Tennessee Valley Chapter of Wild Ones - and Angela co-chairs the pollinator partnership.

Banner for Doug Tallamy lecture from Tennessee Valley Chapter of Wild Ones.
Tennessee Valley Chapter of Wild Ones

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Ray Bassett
Ray is the host and producer of "Scenic Roots" - Mondays through Thursdays at 3 PM - and WUTC's Editorial Director.
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