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Most NYCWW events are free and open to the public. Space is limited for certain events, so advance registration is encouraged.
FAMILY FLORA WALK
Time: Sunday, May 20, 10:00 - 11:00am
Location: Meet at 9th Street entrance along Prospect Park West by the statue in Prospect Park
Guide: Grace Markman, Naturalist
Register for this event FREE
Description: Enjoy a walk in the woods! Explore Prospect Park and learn about how trees, shrubs and even grasses are all wildflowers. Participants will receive free NYC Wildflower Week goodies. For ages 4 and up and their caregivers.
OUR WILDLIFE NEIGHBORS
Time: Thursday, May 17, 4:30 – 5:30 pm
Location: Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11213
Guide: Eliza Russell, National Wildlife Federation
Register for this event FREE after 4pm
Description: Learn about the nature in your neighborhood and what they do to help make your community a fun place to live. Be a scavenger hunter for bugs, birds, mammals, soil, trees, and other plants. Create your own Wild City kit of resources to take with you on an urban hike – including a mini field guide, magnifying glass, and "bug box". Free admission to the museum begins at 4:00 pm so plan to come early or stay late to enjoy the other exhibits at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.
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EXPERIENCE LIFE AS A PLANT
Time: Sunday, May 20, 2:00 – 4:00pm
Location: Meet at the Native Plant Garden in Union Square Park, inside the park at the15th Street transverse and Union Square West
Contact: Nina Wheeler Roberts, educator and urban gardener
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Description: How does it feel to be a plant? Join us as we explore the lives of plants, pollinators, and soil organisms in the Native Plant Garden, a wonderful ecosystem at the heart of the world's busiest city. We will commune with our living, breathing, flowering friends through movement, drawing and poetry. Also, your artistic expressions will be recorded and published, inspiring other growing minds. All ages welcome!
Interactive Plant Fair
Time: Saturday, May 12, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Location: Dina Elkin, Events Coordinator and Daisy Hoyt, Park Manager of Stuyvesant Cove Park,
Solar One
Register for this event FREE
Description: Come and get your hands dirty! Children can pot up and take home a free native plant, make seed balls, learn about insects and wildflowers, tour our native flora garden, and get creative with face painting and paper crafts.
The How Do You Grow Show (all ages)
Time: Saturday, May 12, 11am-12:30pm
Location: Meet in Union Square Park; outside the Native Plant Display Garden East 15th Street and Union Square West
Guide: Music by Lloyd Miler, the Deedle Deedle Dees
Register for this event FREE
Description: We’ll be singing songs about birds, bugs, trees, naturalists and scientists, and, of course, flowers. Expect tunes about Prospect Park’s most famous tree, the Camperdown Elm, Audubon’s birds of America, nature activists like John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt, the Hudson River, ducks, bats, bees and more. Afterwards, every child will get to pot up a wildflower to bring home.
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CHILDREN’S WILDFLOWER WALK
Time: Saturday, May 19, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Location: 228-06 Northern Boulevard, Alley Pond Environmental Center
Guide: Aline Euler, Director of Education
Register for this event FREE
Description: Walk on trails to find wildflowers that grow in the park’s marshes and forests. Participants will each receive a packet of native wildflower seeds to plant in the park. Kids will also get to create a wildflower coloring book and field guide to take home. A snack is included.
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URBAN BIODIVERSITY BINGO IN SI GREENBELT
Time: Saturday, May 12, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Location: Meet at the Nevada Avenue parking lot of High Rock Park
Guide: Jessica Kratz, Nature Center Coordinator, SI Greenbelt Conservancy
Register for this event FREE
Event Description: Join us for a leisurely paced stroll through High Rock Park in search of the sights, sounds, and scents of spring. Play a little game of “biodiversity bingo” as we walk. When you find a wildflower or wildlife, be sure to mark it on your bingo card. This program is suitable for ages 5 and up with adult chaperone. The search begins at the Nevada Ave parking lot of High Rock Park. This program is part of the 5th annual NYC Wildflower Week, which is sponsored locally by Con Ed. Registration required. Free program. Call (718)351-3450 or e-mail naturecenter@sigreenbelt.org
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