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NatureFest – for families!
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin us for a family-friendly celebration of our native plants and animals! From carnivorous plants to live animal encounters, native bees to potting a seed, birdwatching to nature crafts and games, explore the wonders of nature through a variety of engaging outdoor activity stations. Locopops available for purchase. This event is designed for families with children up to age 10. Children must be accompanied by adult.
Virtual Lunchbox Talk: Planting for Pollinators and Hummingbirds
VirtualLearn the basics for encouraging wildlife in your own backyard and contributing to scientific data right from your garden. Questions answered include ‘what is a habitat’, and what makes a ‘wildlife-friendly garden’. We will explore the concept of citizen science and how the public, even the novice gardener, can contribute to scientific research. Our course will culminate with the opportunity to contribute to a citizen science project monitoring birds that visit our green spaces.
Exhibit Reception: No Thought of Time | Susan Fecho
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesMeet the artist and enjoy light refreshments at the reception celebrating No Thought of Time, an exhibit of artwork by Susan Fecho. In No Thought of Time, Susan has worked from collected specimens – fragments of nature and found objects – to produce landscapes that simultaneously celebrate nature and reference civilization. Progressing from realism to...
Annual Jenny Elder Fitch Memorial Lecture: What We Sow in Cultivating Our Places – How a Garden Culture of Care Grows Places and Their People
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesIn her presentation, Jennifer Jewell will explore the philosophy of Cultivating Place, her national, award winning-public radio program and international podcast, based on the belief that gardens/gardeners are powerful agents and spaces for potentially positive change in our world, helping to address challenges as wide ranging as climate change, habitat loss, cultural polarization, and individual and communal health and being.
She will walk audiences through how this power of gardens and gardeners is exemplified in not only her weekly program, but very specifically in her the subjects of her three books: the horticultural women in leadership roles in the award-wining The Earth in Her Hands (2020); the beautiful and innovative place-based gardens that celebrate western landscapes in?Under Western Skies; Visionary Gardens from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast (2021) - with amazing photography by Caitlin Atkinson; and, finally in What We Sow, On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds (2023).
All together, these stories, garden and gardener inspirations tending to a culture of care are blue-prints guiding us in ways we can all grow our world better: more beautiful and brave.
Drop-In Discoveries: Leave Your Leaves
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesWho needs leaves? We all do! Drop by and discover why fallen leaves are so important for a healthy environment – for wildlife, like fireflies and Luna moths, and people. Enjoy a hands-on activity, meet some leaf litter critters, and learn how you can help! All ages welcome. This free, walk-up activity takes place outdoors....
Heart of Wonder: An Art and Yoga Retreat
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesEmbody the meaning of WONDER in your mind, body, and heart at our semi-annual art and yoga retreat. The lush summer background invites you to marvel at nature in new ways. Through the integration of playful and contemplative practices of gentle yoga, meditation, and creative art journaling, you will have the opportunity to awaken to the awe of each moment.