Events

Upcoming Events, Field Trips, and Webinars

WEBINAR – Natural Heritage Know-How: An Intro to FNAI

Hanna Rosner-Katz of The Florida Natural Areas Inventory presents "Natural Heritage Know-How: An Intro to FNAI." This talk will give a brief overview on FNAI’s history and role in Florida as well as review some of their more botanically/ecologically-themed projects currently underway.

PRESENTATION: Edible Natives for Your Landscape

Join us at the Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens in Winter Park. Florida Wildflower Foundation Executive Director Stacey Matrazzo will introduce you to the edible, medicinal and nutritional properties of some native plants commonly found in our yards and landscapes.

WEBINAR – Tree Huggers: Florida’s Exceptional Epiphytes

Dr. Jeannine Richards of Florida Gulf Coast University presents "Tree Huggers: Florida's Exceptional Epiphytes." Learn more about these charismatic plants and their unusual way of life, including some that you might be able to spot right in your own backyard.

FIELD TRIP – Tiger Creek Preserve

Join us for a hike with The Nature Conservancy and the Florida Native Plant Society to explore the Creek Bluffs Loop trail, a 2.6-mile loop that follows bluffs along Tiger Creek and traverses high quality longleaf pine turkey oak sandhill habitat.

EVENT – Fall Horticulture Expo

Stop by our table at the Fall Horticulture Expo in Newberry to learn about Bee City Gainesville and how YOU can invite wildlife into your own landscape!

EVENT – Forests Worked by Women, Work!

Join us during Working Forest Week on Monday, October 21st, 2024 from 8:45am - 1:00pm CT in McDavid, Florida! Presentation topics include: Herbicide, Chainsaws, Financial planning and Available Landowner resources.

VOLUNTEER – Bee City Garden Planting

Join Alachua Conservation Trust and the Florida Wildflower Foundation to help install a Bee City native pollinator garden in Gainesville.

WEBINAR – Tales of Plants that Thrive Where Fire and Water Collide

Dr. Rae Crandall of the University of Florida presents "Tales of Plants that Thrive Where Fire and Water Collide." In this talk, she will discuss several case studies from the southeastern U.S., where fire and flooding interactively affect the population dynamics of species of management concern.