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March
3/23/2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
3/24/2023
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Among Trees: A Mindfulness WorkshopEvent is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
Although much of the North Carolina Piedmont’s forest habitat has been altered, or eliminated, for housing, commerce, and highways, we remain, in a sense, forest dwellers. This workshop is an opportunity to deepen our awareness of trees and forest ecosystems at a time when the Piedmont forest is waking up from winter. This workshop will take place in a North Carolina Botanical Garden natural area (place TBA). After an introduction to the forest ecosystem, we’ll use techniques derived from forest bathing, mindfulness practice, and prompt writing to explore and share our kinship with the forest.
3/25/2023
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
3/25/2023
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
3/31/2023
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
April
4/1/2023
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Penny's Bend: A Half Day Field TripEvent is Full: Accepting Wait List Registrations
Penny’s Bend Nature Preserve is an 84-acre site that protects numerous rare plant species. It is surrounded on three sides by the Eno River in eastern Durham County, North Carolina. This half day field trip will include a visit to distinct plant communities including a remnant Piedmont prairie, rich mesic and alluvial forests, and dry shortleaf pine-dominated bluffs. Rare species found on the Preserve include the smooth purple coneflower (Echinacea laevigata), eastern prairie blue wild indigo (Baptisia minor var. aberrans), hoary puccoon (Lithospermum canescens), and Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria).
Much of this hike is on primitive trails over uneven terrain, with one short, steep climb up from the river. Wear sturdy hiking footwear and bring insect repellent, water, and a walking stick, if you ever use one.
4/2/2023
5:30 PM - 6:45 PM
Annual Evelyn McNeill Sims Native Plant Lecture - Architects of Abundance: Indigenous Regenerative Land Management and the Excavation of Hidden HistoryDr. Lyla June Johnston is an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her research focuses on the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations gardened large regions of Turtle Island (aka the Americas) to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans. Contrary to popular belief, Indigenous Peoples leveraged immense influence on their surrounding lands, fires, and waters in ways that could heal our planet today. Whether it's periodically burning grassland ecosystems with low severity fires to maintain habitat for deer, buffalo, antelope, etc, or building intertidal rock walls that catch sediment and warmer waters to expand clam habitat, native people have a number of innovative strategies for scaling habitat for edible plants and animals whom they often view as relatives. Her work translates this poorly understood history to the Western world and highlights the connection between Indigenous land ethics, decolonial narratives, carbon sequestration, biodiversity augmentation, anthropogenic habitat expansion, and regional ecosystems connectivity. These success of the systems is believed to be due to their underlying value system of respect, reverence, responsibility and reciprocity.
4/5/2023
1:00 PM - 4/26/2023 3:15 PM
4/6/2023
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
4/6/2023
10:00 AM - 4/27/2023 12:30 PM
4/8/2023
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
4/12/2023
9:15 AM - 5/3/2023 12:45 PM
4/13/2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
4/13/2023
1:15 PM - 5/4/2023 4:15 PM
4/15/2023
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
4/15/2023
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
4/15/2023
1:15 PM - 5/13/2023 4:45 PM
4/18/2023
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
4/20/2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
4/20/2023
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4/22/2023
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
4/22/2023
1:30 PM - 5/13/2023 4:00 PM
4/23/2023
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
4/25/2023
12:30 PM - 5/18/2023 4:00 PM
4/27/2023
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
4/27/2023
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
4/29/2023
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
4/29/2023
10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
4/30/2023
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
May
5/10/2023
1:15 PM - 5/31/2023 4:45 PM
5/13/2023
10:00 AM - 2:30 PM
5/13/2023
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
5/20/2023
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
5/20/2023
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
5/20/2023
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
5/20/2023
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
5/25/2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
June
6/3/2023
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
6/3/2023
1:30 PM - 6/24/2023 4:00 PM
6/8/2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
6/10/2023
9:30 AM - 6/24/2023 12:30 PM
6/14/2023
9:30 AM - 6/16/2023 4:30 PM
Visiting Artist Master Course with Carol Woodin: Nature’s Rarities: Painting Native Orchids in Watercolor Orchids are one of the art world’s most treasured subjects, and we’ll find ours growing in the landscape at NCBG. Students will begin by studying their choice of subject in its natural habitat, learning to collect field information accurately and quickly through drawing, watercolor studies, and photography. Returning to the studio, we’ll finalize and transfer drawings to either paper or vellum. Through lecture, demonstration, and hands-on practice, artists will learn to manage multiple layers of watercolor drybrush, capturing color, shaded form and surface qualities characteristic of orchids, while retaining botanical accuracy of their subject. By the end of the three-day course, artists will have their paintings complete or nearly so.
6/22/2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
August
8/7/2023
8:00 AM - 5/13/2023 5:00 PM
Hybrid Certificate in Therapeutic HorticultureThe Hybrid Certificate in Therapeutic Horticulture (HCTH) provides comprehensive online and in-person instruction to professionals and students in allied health, education, and design fields who wish to incorporate therapeutic horticulture into their practice. This nine-month program allows maximum flexibility for those who need convenient, self-paced, evening, and weekend learning opportunities.
Students will build foundational knowledge and explore how Therapeutic Horticulture supports human health & wellness, including physical, cognitive, emotional, spiritual, vocational, and social needs.
8/10/2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
8/23/2023
1:15 PM - 10/4/2023 4:30 PM