The Northern Virginia Conservation Trust‘s fifth annual Nearby Nature photo contest is now live and it’s excited to announce this year’s photo categories! The three photo groups will allow both adult and youth submissions and the competition will be open from now until midnight on October 31, 2018. Full details including submission guidelines, prize donors, […]
Saturday, 10 November 2018 8 a.m. – noon Walt Whitman Middle School 2500 Parkers Ln, Alexandria, VA 22306 Mount Vernon District Supervisor Dan Storck will host his first Environment Expo where we will explore how everyone can help save our planet, with the theme “Saving the Earth One Person at a Time”. The morning will […]
Mount Vernon Government Center 2511 Parkers Lane, Alexandria, VA Sunday. 7 October 2018 4-6 pm Join in a fall planting event in the newly established gardens at the Mount Vernon Government Center! The group will be installing native plants in the front planting beds that were established this past spring. They will also continue with […]
Saturday, 13 October 2018 9-11:30am Multiple locations Do your part to clean up our parks and local waterways by registering to participate in a Watershed Clean Up Day event. Volunteers are needed from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at Cub Run RECenter, Hidden Pond Nature Center, Huntley Meadows Park, Lake Accotink Park, Lincolnia Park, Riverbend Park and […]
Ever wonder what’s living in our local streams? Join a stream monitoring team and help gauge local water quality by surveying aquatic organisms living on the stream bottom. Led by certified stream monitors, the teams welcome interested observers and offer an opportunity to explore Northern Virginia’s lovely creeks. NVSWCD Sugarland Run Stream Monitoring Workshop When: […]
Earth Sangha Wild Plant Nursery 6100 Cloud Drive in Franconia Park, Springfield VA Sunday, 30 September 2018 9 am – 12 pm Many folks could not attend last week’s sale so Earth Sangha is having a second sale! Fall is really the best time to visit the nursery. In the Spring, the plants are still […]
Green Spring Gardens 4603 Green Spring Road, Alexandria, VA 22312 Thursday, 4 October 2018 7:30 – 9 pm Meet Megan Whatton and learn about her work with Habitat Network, which is creating a movement to transform yards and urban landscapes to functional diverse habitat to support wildlife and connect people to nature in communities around the world. […]
Why go on a safari when a safari could come to you? Imagine yourself sipping lemonade on your lawn chair while strange and marvelous creatures entertain you. This is what you experience when you turn your yard into a wildlife sanctuary. Fall is the time to put in the plants that will bring this parade […]
Algonkian Park—Woodlands Conference Center 47001 Fairway Drive, Sterling, VA 20165 Thursday, 11 October 2018 5 pm – 9 pm Designed to provide practical help and useful information to move your community toward a healthier landscape. This second HOA forum on sustainable landscape management will provide the “why” and “why not” of native and invasive plants, as […]
Glencarlyn Picnic Pavillion #1, 401 S. Harrison St., Arlington VA Saturday, September 15th 9 am – 4 pm Celebrate Arlington’s biodiversity by helping us conduct a citizen science inventory of plants and wildlife that will help shape the County’s updating of its Natural Resources Management Plan. Participating in the Bioblitz is a great way to […]