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Twilight Thursdays
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NCEvery Thursday evening between Memorial Day and Labor Day, we’re staying open until 8 p.m. so you can enjoy our display gardens after work and in cooler temperatures. Our exhibit...
Twilight Thursdays
Every Thursday evening between Memorial Day and Labor Day, we’re staying open until 8 p.m. so you can enjoy our display gardens after work and in cooler temperatures. Our exhibit...
Twilight Thursdays
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NCEvery Thursday evening between Memorial Day and Labor Day, we’re staying open until 8 p.m. so you can enjoy our display gardens after work and in cooler temperatures. Our exhibit...
Annual Jenny Elder Fitch Memorial Lecture: Moveable Gardens and Commensal Tables: Rooting in an Age of Displacement
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NCHumans have been moving with plants as their traveling companions since the beginning of time. Currently, in a period of impactful and reinforcing industrialization, globalization, and strife known as the Anthropocene, this movement has dramatically escalated in tempo and scale. In this presentation, I will address how remembrance embedded in seeds counters destruction of homelands, fragmentation of habitats, and cultural alienation, and how sanctuary is sought in gardening, cooking, and community building.
Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Leave Your Leaves!
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NCFall is here and this year why not leave your leaves! Leaving your leaves is one way to change some of the forces at work behind the twin problems of the climate crisis and the loss of biodiversity. Leaving your leaves will make your yard a better habitat for birds, fireflies and butterflies. It will enrich your soil, create less stormwater runoff and lessen air and noise pollution. Learn how preserving the leaf litter in your yard is a great thing you can do for your local ecosystems and to increase the enjoyment of nature in your own backyard.
Outdoor Story Time with Chapel Hill Public Library
Thursday, November 17, 2022 4:00 - 4:30 p.m. Celebrate fall with an outdoor story time at the Garden with the Chapel Hill Public Library! Meet us in the Children's Wonder...
Little Sprouts: Terrific Turkeys
For ages 3-5 with participating caregiver. Gobble, gobble... it’s turkey time! Learn about the big, spectacular wild turkey with fun stories, craft, play, and hands-on walk through the fall forest.
Little Sprouts: Terrific Turkeys
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NCFor ages 3-5 with participating caregiver. Gobble, gobble... it’s turkey time! Learn about the big, spectacular wild turkey with fun stories, craft, play, and hands-on walk through the fall forest.
Winter Craft Market
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NCFind the perfect holiday gift during our Winter Craft Market on Sunday, December 4 from 1 to 4 p.m. Local artists will offer a variety of products, including ceramics, cards, macramé, folk art, and jewelry. Rain or shine: Vendors will be set up indoors in Reeves Auditorium. Vendors All Strings Detatched The Botanical Bear Rebecca...
Natural Ornaments – Family Workshop
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NCFor ages 5 and up. Decorate for the holidays naturally with acorns, pine cones, milkweed pods, and more! Use your imagination to craft your own unique ornament with materials that nature supplies. Celebrate your creative work with cider or hot cocoa, then visit the holiday craft market after! All materials included.
Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Protect Our Pollinators! Become a Community Scientist with Budburst
Join staff from the North Carolina Botanical Garden to learn about Budburst, a national community science project that brings together researchers and the public to answer critical questions about how plants and pollinators are responding to a changing climate. Learn how you can contribute to the effort by making simple plant observations, as well as how the Garden is partnering with local community organizations to expand the reach of this project locally. With Budburst, you can experience the magic of nature, while contributing to the fight to save it.
Exhibit Reception: Threatened Botanicals of the Carolinas
Pictured: Oconee Bells by Ellen Fishburne. Join us for a reception to celebrate the opening of Threatened Botanicals of the Carolinas, an exhibit of illustrations by the Guild of Natural...