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.

Membership meeting and foray.

Dorothy Carney will lead members of the Jefferson Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society and  the Rivanna Master Naturalists on a walk along the main trail around the quarries.

Field trip for Master Naturalists training class led by Bernice Thieblot.

Field trip for Master Naturalists training class led by Bernice Thieblot.