Your backyard can be a lively place with a few wild additions to your yard and garden! Learn how to improve your backyard habitat for wildlife while enjoying family-friendly learning stations, wagon rides, musical entertainment & food trucks. Shop for native plants at local nurseries, expand your gardening knowledge.
Join us on Saturday, August 27, 2016 from Noon to 4 p.m. for all of the above and more!
Indoor Activities (All activities ongoing unless noted)
- 12:30 – 1:30 Shrink Your Lawn, Barb Holtz (Confluence Room)
- 1:30 – 2:30 Virtual Native Garden Walk (Confluence Room)
- 2 – 2:30 Musical Mark’s Nature Songs (Restoration Room)
- 2:30 – 3:50 Disney Nature Film: “Wings of Life” (Confluence Room)
- Noon – 4 Rain Garden Interactive (Map Room)
- Ultra BEE Vision Maze (Upland Classroom)
- Flower Academy (Wetland Classroom)
- LEAP for Biodiversity & NEORSD (Exhibit Area)
Outdoor Activities (See map on reverse for more ongoing activities)
- 1:45 Monarch Waystation Ribbon Cutting Ceremony (Monarch Bluff Picnic Area)
- 3:00 Tree Steward Walk (meet at Quarry Work Yard)
- Noon – 4 Restoration Wagon Tours every half hour (Traffic Circle and Bluebird Point parking lots)
- Stream Sampling (meet at Wetland Bioblitz)
- Ask a Bug Expert (Meadow Bioblitz)
- Musical Mark (on the trail)
- Native Plant Vendors: Perennials Preferred, Genius Loci, Native Roots, Ohio Prairie Nursery, and more
This event is supported by a partnership between Cleveland Metroparks, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, and West Creek Conservancy.