(ages 0-3 with an adult) Infants, toddlers and caregivers join our educators to learn about gardening and plant seeds of your own. Engage in active nature play designed to stimulate your child’s curiosity and sense of wonder. Stories, music, and sensorimotor activities add to the experience by deepening our connections to each other and the…
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(ages 3-5 with an adult) Wonder, respect, and love for the natural world will be a great start in these engaging weekly adult and child classes. Take nature hikes, read stories, and create a one-of-a-kind project every week. These are wonderful experiences where children can spend time outdoors with an Environmental Educator. The cost is… |
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(for adults) Join us in celebrating May’s full “Flower Moon” with an evening designed to honor spring in all its blooming beauty. Craft a floral-forward mocktail, raise a toast to the season, and wander on a guided moonlit walk through the Arboretum. Hosted by Friluftsliving Family’s Tacy Quinn, this enchanting gathering welcomes the season of… |
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(ages 0-3 with an adult) Infants, toddlers and caregivers join our educators to learn about the amazing trees living at the arboretum. Hike woodland trails and engage in active nature play designed to stimulate your child’s curiosity and sense of wonder. Stories, music, and sensorimotor activities add to the experience by deepening our connections to… |
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(adults) Celebrate Mother’s Day with two (2) heartfelt floral arrangements made with love! This workshop is perfect for creating a thoughtful, personalized gift for a special person or for bonding with your child over floral design. In this workshop, you will learn tips about seasonal blooms and various techniques for arranging them. All experience levels…
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(adults) Guest Speaker: Vincent Simeone, Horticulturist, Lecturer, and Garden Writer Selecting the right tree for the right location in urban and suburban settings can be surprisingly challenging. These environments place unique demands on plants, and only certain species and cultivars truly thrive in parks, traffic medians, streetscapes, and naturalized areas. In this lecture, Vincent Simeone… |
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(adults and teens 13 yrs+) Migration season is in full swing, and colorful migrants are flitting through the Arboretum’s forest and gardens, singing to attract mates. Many of them are small and speedy, so it helps to go out with a seasoned guide like ours who can teach you the tricks to identifying birds by… |
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(for adults) Forest Bathing, also known as Nature and Forest Therapy, is a slow meditative walk in nature that takes a holistic view of the physiological, mental, emotional, and psycho-spiritual benefits to be derived from an embodied contact with nature and aims to engage humans through their senses, not their intellects. Forest Bathing can be… |
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(ages 3-5 with an adult) Wonder, respect, and love for the natural world will be a great start in these engaging weekly adult and child classes. Take nature hikes, read stories, and create a one-of-a-kind project every week. These are wonderful experiences where children can spend time outdoors with an Environmental Educator. The cost is… |
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(adults and teens 16 yrs+) This engaging terrarium workshop blends science and creativity through hands-on learning. Participants will explore the fundamentals of small-scale ecosystems, gaining insight into how light, moisture, and plant interactions support a balanced environment. Using live mosses and plants, participants will design and build a self-sustaining terrarium while learning about plant selection,… |
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(ages 0-3 with an adult) Infants, toddlers and caregivers join our educators as we picnic under the trees. We’ll play cooperative games, visit the flowers, sing, dance, and laugh the day away. All the while exploring the many wonders of nature in Springtime …… like how the grass feels beneath our bare feet. The cost…
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Garden to Table Mondays, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM May 18 – Fruit & Veggie Critters We will be preparing some adorable and delicious Fruit & Veggie Critters, and learn about the insects living in our gardens. Enjoy quality time in the garden with your child/children as we explore the Edible Garden and all that… |
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(ages 3-5 with an adult) Wonder, respect, and love for the natural world will be a great start in these engaging weekly adult and child classes. Take nature hikes, read stories, and create a one-of-a-kind project every week. These are wonderful experiences where children can spend time outdoors with an Environmental Educator. The cost is… |
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(adults and teens 13 yrs+) Migration season is in full swing, and colorful migrants are flitting through the Arboretum’s forest and gardens, singing to attract mates. Many of them are small and speedy, so it helps to go out with a seasoned guide like ours who can teach you the tricks to identifying birds by… |
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(adults) Let your creativity flow with amazing tropical blooms. Expect to work with birds of paradise, ginger, parrots, orchids, heloconian, and monstera leaves. In this workshop, you will learn tips about seasonal blooms and various techniques for arranging them. All experience levels are welcome. Classes run approximately 2 hours. Prices include all florals and vases.… |
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