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Drop in year-round for free, fun, hands-on family activities designed for your family to do together at your own pace. Celebrate the changing seasons with a different activity each month such as tasting maple syrup, planting a mini-garden, cooking a fresh treat from the garden, glimpsing the inside of a flower through a microscope, decorating pumpkins, and discovering the secrets of fall color. Enjoy the fascinating world of plants and how they affect our daily lives. FREE with arboretum admission.
Saturdays and Sundays in May, Noon- 4 p.m.
$free member/$free with arboretum admisson non-member, Limit 200 per weekend expected, Learning Center
May brings an ever-changing array of colorful spring flowers to the arboretum and marks the return of migrant birds and butterflies. Experience the season's delights, plant your own spring flower to take home, and create a journal to record what's in bloom.
Saturdays and Sundays in June, Noon- 4 p.m.
$free member/$free with arboretum admisson non-member, Limit 200 per weekend expected, Learning Center
Taste and prepare adventurous salad recipes using all the plant parts from root to fruit. Venture into the Children's Garden to hunt for unusual salad plants. Plant and take home a pot of micro salad greens.
Saturdays and Sundays in July, Noon- 4 p.m.
$free member/$free with arboretum admisson non-member, Limit 200 per weekend expected, Learning Center
Follow your nose to the Harvest Kitchen where you can prepare and eat an herb-flavored snack. Hunt in our kitchen herb garden for your favorites. Take home herbs you have potted and recipes you have learned.
Saturdays and Sundays in August, Noon- 4 p.m.
$free member/$free with arboretum admisson non-member, Limit 200 per weekend expected, Learning Center
What attracts pollinators to flowers? Zoom inside a flower like a bee, using our microscope to find out! Explore our make believe pantry to see foods produced by insect pollinated plants. Find out how you can help the pollinators in your own back yard.
Saturdays and Sundays in September, Noon- 4 p.m.
$free member/$free with arboretum admisson non-member, Limit 200 per weekend expected, Learning Center
Tease magic out of seeds, twigs, and leaves to turn them into fairies, gnomes, and elves. Then take them outside into the Green Play Yard and help build them an elfin kingdom under the trees.
Saturdays and Sundays in October, Noon-4 p.m.
$free member/$free with arboretum admission non-member, Limit 200 per weekend expected, Learning Center
Help prepare a garden fresh bite of colorful vegetables and fresh herbs. Discover how putting a rainbow of plants on your plate fuels your body. Mix paints to match the exact pigment of heirloom tomatoes, squash, pumpkins, and many more colorful edibles fresh from the garden.
Saturdays and Sundays in November, Noon-4 p.m.
$free member/$free with arboretum admission non-member, Limit 200 per weekend expected, Learning Center
What kind of foliage did plant eating dinosaurs munch on? Stop by the Learning Center to meet some living fossils, prehistoric plants from the days of the Diplodocus. Look at spores and cones up close with a microscope. Create your own fern print on cotton cloth, hunt for prehistoric plants in the greenhouse, and plant a prehistoric plant to take home with you.
Saturdays and Sundays in December, Noon- 4 p.m.
$free member/$free with arboretum admission non-member, Limit 200 per weekend expected, Learning Center
Have you heard the buzz about bees? Discover who lives in a hive, and what jobs they do. Take a look at pollen up close and buzz through the greenhouse in search of flowers. Sample a taste of sweet comb honey and sooth winter's chapped lips by making your own beeswax lip balm to take home.
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