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North Carolina Botanical Garden
Native People, Native Plants Symposium
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe Native People, Native Plants Symposium is focused on celebrating cultural relationships between Native American people and native plants. Through workshops led by local Native American plant knowledge keepers, we will explore and celebrate cultural uses, traditions, and relationships among multiple Native plants and the people who have been tending to and using these plants since time immemorial. We aim to bring more visibility to and awareness of Indigenous uses of plants, not just those native to NC, and uplift historic relationships with plants and people. We also plan to exchange native plant seeds in a community seed swap - please bring seeds to share if you have them!
Winter Craft Market
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesFind the perfect holiday gifts at our annual Winter Craft Market! Local artisans will offer a variety of products, including nature-themed notecards and prints, quilted bags and wall art, ceramics, jewelry, and more. The market will be set up in Reeves Auditorium. We hope to see you there! Vendors Anjana Tumuluri Art Prescription Chellie LaPointe...
Natural Ornaments – Family Workshop
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesDecorate 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! All materials included.
Drop-In Discoveries: Thanksgiving for Wildlife
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesBring your family and join us at the Garden during the Thanksgiving week! Drop by to make pinecone bird feeders and learn how we can help our wild neighbors in the colder months. All ages welcome. This free, walk-up activity takes place outdoors. Tuesday, November 26: 1-4 p.m. Wednesday, November 27: 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Drop-In Discoveries: Thanksgiving for Wildlife
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesBring your family and join us at the Garden during the Thanksgiving week! Drop by to make pinecone bird feeders and learn how we can help our wild neighbors in the colder months. All ages welcome. This free, walk-up activity takes place outdoors. Tuesday, November 26: 1-4 p.m. Wednesday, November 27: 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Hybrid Special Presentation – Clover Garden: A Carolinian’s Piedmont Memoir
North Carolina Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesBetween North Carolina’s coastal plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains lies the Piedmont: some 250 linear miles of rolling, long-settled lands covering almost half of the state. Geologically speaking, piedmont regions are found all over the world, but North Carolina's Piedmont is among the largest in the United States, sitting along an environmental crossroads where northern and southern flora and fauna overlap, offering an incredibly rich natural diversity. Inhabited continuously for thousands of years, the state's rural heartland is today home to an increasingly dense population. Yet most who reside in the region's cities, suburbs, and smaller towns still live within reach of red-clay farmland, oak and hickory forests watered by small creeks, and rocky river valleys. These places—as they have been and as they are now—remain essential to the character of life in the South.