Mai Mai Margules, lead at the Tarrytown Pollinator Pathway and designer of the public pollinator pathway gardens and containers in Tarrytown, will show you how easy it is to get started with a fool-proof pollinator garden. Tips and tricks, carefree and easy plants, how to source plants, and easy design tips will be offered.

Join Sheldrake’s Director of Education, Jocelyn Kleinman, to learn about the special qualities of trees in autumn as we explore the trails around the Larchmont Reservoir at Sheldrake Environmental Center. Trees protect against flooding and soil erosion; they excel at soaking up and storing excess greenhouse gases; and they remove air pollution and provide essential oxygen. On this fall walk, we will discover the many ways that trees prepare for winter and provide for animal life. This program is offered in partnership with the Town of Mamaroneck.

Seed Swap & Free Native Plant Seeds

Support Birds and Pollinators with Native Plants

Bedford Hills Community House

74 Main Street Bedford Hills

Native Plant and Pollinator Conference

Information and Registration at s.uconn.edu/nppc2023info

Early Registration $65.00, by Thursday, October 6, 2023
$75.00, after October 6, 2023
Matriculated Students, $25.00 with valid school ID

Please join us at the TEAC booth where we will be distributing native seedlings, free native plant seeds and lots of great info to help you get a head start on the fall planting season ahead! Lots of milkweed plants will be available along with other locally grown natives.

Please join us for Earth Day! Free Spring Pollinator Seeds.

Presentations: Easy Jump Start Pollinator Garden Attracting Birds Common Invasive Plants How YOU can save the Monarch Butterfly in your yard

Free Seeds | Free Seedlings | Kids Activities| Native Plant Orders | Marbleizing Pots

Free Consultations | Houseplant Urgent Care | Garden Design Help

We are thrilled to have nationally renowned landscape designer and native plant expert Carolyn Summers present easy native trees and shrubs for your yard. There is a native tree and shrub for every situation, height requirement, and use. Fall in love with our gorgeous native trees and shrubs and help pollinators, birds, and wildlife by including natives on your property. These webinars will not be recorded.  

We are thrilled to have nationally renowned landscape designer and native plant expert Carolyn Summers present easy native trees and shrubs for your yard. There is a native tree and shrub for every situation, height requirement, and use. Fall in love with our gorgeous native trees and shrubs and help pollinators, birds, and wildlife by including natives on your property. These webinars will not be recorded.  

Master Gardener and native plant enthusiast Deb Ellis will share which flowers and shrubs are well-suited to sustain wildlife through fall and winter. She will also discuss modernizing fall cleanup, how “leaving the leaves” can nurture your garden, and how native plants can serve as a home and winter food source for pollinators and birds.

Get some free seeds! Native plants are crucial for a healthy environment, and that includes our yards. The volunteers at this event will be happy to teach you how to include more native plants in your landscape. If you already have plenty of native plants; harvest some seeds and bring them with you. Free and welcome to all.

Join Lindsey Feinberg, our Native Plants Curator, in this hands-on workshop!

You will learn to sustainably collect seeds from native plants without harming wild populations. We will cover techniques researched by scientists and implemented by the Bureau of Land Management’s National Seed Strategy.

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The Tarrytown Environmental Advisory Council (TEAC) is hosting its annual Eco Fair on October 14, 2023 at Patriots Park from 10am to 2pm in collaboration with Tarrytown Village and TASH. Please visit the TEAC table for free native plant seeds and seedlings. We’ll have lots of info to help you get a head start on your native garden with fall planting tips. Hundreds of free native seeds from our local pollinator gardens!

Welcome to the Westchester Pollinator Garden Tour Series.

Visit eight local home gardens and a community garden during the New Rochelle Pollinator Garden Tour.

Enroll in our Butterfly Workshop with Naturalist Tait Johansson to learn all about butterflies!

Join Mathew McDowell, Teatown Reservation's Wildflower Island Curator, for an in-depth walk and talk discussing the insect world. Pollination services, predators, prey: insects are the cornerstones of terrestrial ecosystems.

Join us for our annual Firefly Festival!

Trailside Nature Museum at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation

Routes 35 and 121 South, Cross River 10518

Our garden adds natural beauty with native plants that nurture and shelter threatened pollinators — bees, butterflies, beneficial insects and birds. You can do the same at home, no planting is too small to help. Any garden or planting that is pesticide free and provides food and shelter for wildlife will make a difference. If you don’t have garden space you can plant a planter or install a native shrub or tree!