Bring your friend! Or come on your own and then tell your friends all that you have learned. We will look for signs of early Spring stirring in the tree tops! Learn some tree identification basics and find a few trees worthy of close observation for that much anticipated event: bud break.
In early spring the edible seedlings and young shoots of flavorful invasive plants like garlic mustard, day lilies, ground elder, and mugwort are beginning to show themselves. Come and learn to spot them on a brisk walk in Prospect Park.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s (BBG) Plant Sale returns this year on May 10, 2018, with a Members’ Preview on May 9. New York–area gardeners of all levels flock to the annual sale for its wide selection of locally grown, hand-selected plants.
The incredible floral artists of Ferox Studio will demonstrate how to maximize the season's most beautiful floral offerings and will work one-on-one with each student.
Get outside and learn to identify trees by the details: bark, buds, leaves and tree form.
Get outside and learn to identify trees by the details: bark, buds, leaves and tree form.
From our organizers: Often in New York City, we are among medicine beneath our feet without even knowing it! Dandelions, clover, chickweed and mugwort creep through sidewalk cracks, following disturbed human landscapes and offering powerful energy to nearby living things. Join us to learn about common medicinal plants growing in the city, and discover ways…
From our organizers: Often in New York City, we are among medicine beneath our feet without even knowing it! Dandelions, clover, chickweed and mugwort creep through sidewalk cracks, following disturbed human landscapes and offering powerful energy to nearby living things. Join us to learn about common medicinal plants growing in the city, and discover ways…
BQLT is excited to partner with the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium this summer to bring jazz to six of our gardens!
BQLT is excited to partner with the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium this summer to bring jazz to six of our gardens!
BQLT is excited to partner with the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium this summer to bring jazz to six of our gardens!
BQLT is excited to partner with the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium this summer to bring jazz to six of our gardens!
BQLT is excited to partner with the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium this summer to bring jazz to six of our gardens!
This Saturday, 8 September, I will be leading a local walk in Brooklyn, along the wild edges of Dead Horse Bay.
We will visit some oaks and appreciate these long-lived trees by foraging for and eating acorns (with a bit of preparation, of course).
The walk will encompass botanical thugs, like ground elder, lesser celandine, garlic mustard and mugwort. The tasting picnic will feature, you guessed it: weeds.
Discover how herbs such as cleavers, burdock, dandelion, mugwort, and more have been used by herbalists to dispel the digestive cobwebs of winter.
Green-Wood is teaming with our friends at Kings County Distillery to delve into the past and present of distilling, Brooklyn style.
Join award-winning New York Times writer Melissa Clark as she leads a thought-provoking conversation with oyster expert Julie Qiu, Sea to Table founder & CEO Sean Dimin, and journalist Charity Robey as they unpack the complex issues that impact our seafood supply and discuss possible solutions for the future.
Join ecological artist Mary Mattingly in a talk where she explores the notion of "the commons" as it has informed her artistic practice and her ways of engaging with other citizens through public art projects.
