Thursday, July 3, join Horticulture Educator Margaret Murphy at the Altoona Public Library for an evening program of planting containers for the library. We’ll create flowerpots and discuss best practices for caring for a container garden. Start time is 6:30 p.m. Contact the Altoona Public Library for details. Altoona Public Library

Saturday, July 12, at 10:00 a.m., join Margaret and Master Naturalist/Gardener, Sue Crisp for a walk around a prairie to see if we can find signs of animals who have passed through the area. In particular, we will be keeping an eye out for animal scat – yay – from scat you can tell who has used the area and maybe even what they have recently eaten. We’ll have plastic replicas of scat from common animals found in the park together with other materials that will prepare us for our investigative search for visitors to the prairie. Meet at the Prairie Wildflower Trail. A Wisconsin State Park System vehicle admission sticker is required at Lake Wissota State Park.