🌼🐝 Buzz & Bloom: Hoverflies & Goldenrod 🐝🌼
When you see tiny insects hovering effortlessly over late-summer flowers, don’t be so quick to call them bees. Chances are you’ve spotted a hoverfly—one of nature’s unsung pollinators! With their […]
Biodiversity
🌿 Why Habitats Matter 🌿
Every bird, bee, butterfly, frog, and fox needs a place to call home. Habitats provide the food, water, shelter, and space wildlife needs to survive and thrive. When native habitats
Creature Feature Tuesday
🐝 Pollinator Spotlight: Common Eastern Bumble Bee 🐝 Don’t let its fuzzy appearance fool you—the Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens) is one of North America’s hardest-working native pollinators. Unlike
Native Plant Heroes
🌸 Native Plant Spotlight: Wild Columbine 🌸 One of spring’s most enchanting native wildflowers is Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis). Its graceful red-and-yellow, nodding blooms seem to float above delicate blue-green
Neighbors for Nature
Students at Benjamin Franklin Middle School transformed a section of their school courtyard into a thriving native pollinator garden through hands-on learning, teamwork, and environmental stewardship. Sixth and seventh graders
🌼 Explore Outdoors Challenge: Find 5 Native Flowers! 🌼
How many native wildflowers can you discover on your next walk? Your challenge is simple:🌿 Find 5 native flowering plants in your yard, neighborhood, local park, or nature preserve.📸 Take
Buzz & Bloom
🌾 Southeastern Grasslands Feature: America’s Most Overlooked Ecosystem Grasslands of the Southeast are some of the most diverse—and most threatened—ecosystems in North America. Once stretching across vast portions of the
Small Ripple Effects, Lasting Impacts: Habitat Fragmentation
🌿 Habitat Fragmentation: Why It Matters & What You Can Do As cities grow and roads expand, natural habitats are often broken into smaller, isolated patches—a process called habitat fragmentation.
Creature Feature Tuesday
🐝 Georgia Native Bee Spotlight Meet one of Georgia’s most important pollinators: the southeastern blueberry bee (Habropoda laboriosa). This fuzzy, fast-flying native bee is a spring specialist—and it has a
Week of June 22nd – 28th
Unearth A Story – Up in the Garden, Down in the Dirt Unearth A Story invites preschoolers to dig into the wonders beneath their feet through stories, sensory play, and
Week of June 15th – 20th
Little Chicks, Big Stories is a fun and engaging preschool program that introduces young children to the wonderful world of chickens through stories, songs, movement, and hands-on learning. Children will
Week of May 11th-15th
I don’t have any events this week. I am prepping for next week’s events and starting prep for June’s events. I am working up at Cherokee Veteran’s Park this week