(VA) (Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia) Join Extension Master Gardeners for a festival of all things plants, gardening and nature!! We will have: guided walks, a nature/wildlife table, outside vendors (plants, vintage, upcycled wares), the Alexandria City Art Truck, MGNV merchandise tables and demonstration tables. Come celebrate Fall with us!
(DC) (District Department of Energy and Environment) Experience all the amazing activities the islands offer including paddling, nature walks, fishing, scavenger hunts, and so much more!
(DC) (Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens) Join Free Minds staff and formerly incarcerated Poet Ambassadors in a powerful poetry exchange with incarcerated Free Minds members. Participants will hear a conversation and poetry reading with formerly incarcerated Free Minds Poet Ambassadors who will share their stories and discuss the healing powers of reading and writing. Participants will then have the opportunity ...
(MD) (Montgomery Parks) Join us for the Strathmore Local Park re-opening celebration and check out the new improved soccer field, basketball and soccer court, new playground, and loop path. There will be a speaking program, pumpkin decorating, and treats. Costumes are encouraged!
(DC) (Mount Pleasant Village) Join Mount Pleasant Village friends and neighbors to steward the trees on Mount Pleasant Street and a few adjoining blocks. We'll be mulching the tree boxes for the Fall and Winter. The trees are healthier from our previous mulchings and the tree boxes are looking much better. We need you! And your children and grandchildren too! ...
(VA) (Arlington Parks) The whole family is invited to join us at Long Branch Nature Center for lots of old-fashioned fun. This engaging program will be filled with entertaining activities which may include stories, special animal guests, games, songs and of course, S’mores. (We will provide the marshmallows, chocolate & graham crackers).
(VA) (Fairfax County Parks) (4-Adult) Join us for a rare opportunity to explore the boardwalk under a bright full moon on this fall evening. We will look and listen for wildlife as we explore the forest and marsh trails. More Fairfax County nature programs can be found here.
(VA) (Friends of Dyke Marsh) Join FODM for a bird walk every Sunday at 8 a.m. The Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve is a freshwater, tidal marsh on the Virginia side of the Potomac River in Fairfax County. It is a unit of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, U.S. National Park Service.
(VA) (Fairfax County) Join us for a planting event aimed at restoring the Fairfax County Parklands. Native plants will be planted to help support the local ecosystem. Minimum age: 12.
(DC) (DC Bird Alliance) Join us for this very special bird walk as we discover, or rediscover, what is means for us to be a birder. What connects in your mind, body and soul when you hear a tiny soprano in perfect pitch singing to you? Together with the phenomenal, Susan West Montgomery, we will enjoy a practice inviting us ...
(VA) (Nature by Design) Nature By Design, an environmentally responsible full service plant nursery vends every Sunday at Four Mile Run Farmers' Market on Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The market is located at 4109 Mt. Vernon Avenue in Alexandria (Del Ray), just below S. Glebe Rd. Phone: 703-683-GROW (4769)
(MD) (Montgomery Parks) Fall is a rainbow of wildflowers, from goldenrods to asters in every shade of purple. Take a leisurely stroll through the park with our Master Naturalists who will interpret this last spectacular show of color before the changing of the seasons.
