Participants in this basket-weaving workshop, taught by artist Karen Milnes, will craft a small hip basket  perfect for mushroom forays in the dense woods of our surrounding forests. Karen has […]
Field trip.
Emma Stephens of the Center for Urban Habitats will be here to help volunteers with spring clean-up of the QGs. The work will include cutting back winter thatch around the […]
Join Tree Steward and Master Naturalist Emily Ferguson as she uses winter characteristics to identify trees and large shrubs along the main trail around the quarries. Owing to variations in […]
Wildflower walk with Dorothy Carney.
Volunteers learn about and help maintain the Quarry Gardens' galleries of native plant communities with guidance from Emma Stephens most Friday mornings from February through November. Hours this week will […]
FrogWatch USA is a citizen science program established in 1998 to provide individuals, groups and families with opportunities to learn about wetlands in their communities by reporting on the calls […]
With engaging visuals—and, she promises, only one fancy geological word—Kate Humphrey Chambers will present the deep history of our region and how it came to be as we know it. […]
Volunteers learn about and help maintain the Quarry Gardens' galleries of native plant communities with guidance from Emma Stephens most Friday mornings from February through November. Hours this week will […]
Volunteers learn about and help to maintain the Quarry Gardens' galleries of native plant communities with guidance from Emma Stephens most Friday mornings from February through November. Hours this week […]
Volunteers learn about and help to maintain the Quarry Gardens' galleries of native plant communities with guidance from Emma Stephens most Friday mornings from February through November. Hours this week […]
In this presentation, Tracey Hopper and Joanna Vondracek, of the Piedmont Virginia Bird Club, will discuss why, how, and where to go binding. Their presentation will show birds that may […]
Training class for new Master Naturalists
Volunteers learn about and help to maintain the Quarry Gardens' galleries of native plant communities with guidance from Emma Stephens most Friday mornings from February through November. Hours this week […]
Geology department field trip and picnic.
Field trip
Genial botanist and noted wildflower blogger Cynthia Wood will lead a walk along the QGs main trial around the two quarry pools through galleries of native plant communities. Plants we […]
Membership meeting with presentation by Pat Mitchell, founder and president of the Blue Ridge Mycological Society.