Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
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Garden Investigators Camp: Pollinators! (Ages 4-6)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Monday, August 1-Friday August 5 Campers will spend the week getting up close and personal with the amazing pollinators making...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
3 events,
Summer Discoveries: The Five Senses (Ages 3-8)
Summer Discoveries: The Five Senses (Ages 3-8)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Discover all that you can see, smell, hear, feel, and even taste as we tour the Lerner Garden of the...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
4 events,
Outdoor Family Fun Days
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Thanks to generous support from L.L.Bean, kids 17 and under are free every Wednesday in July and August, 2022. No...
The Caterpillar Lab
The Caterpillar Lab
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
4 events,
The Caterpillar Lab
The Caterpillar Lab
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
The Caterpillar Walk
The Caterpillar Walk
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
The Caterpillar Lab is moving in, and while the exhibit is filled with munching critters offering lots to explore, the...
6 events,
The Caterpillar Lab
The Caterpillar Lab
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
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Introduction to Native Flora of Maine
Introduction to Native Flora of Maine
Online & Bosarge Family Education Center
Fridays, August 5 and 12 and Saturday, August 13 | The first step to gardening with Maine’s native plants is meeting them in their wild habitats. Over this two-day class, CMBG’s Research Botanist, Melissa Cullina, will help students recognize 50 or more frequent coastal species.
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
4 events,
The Caterpillar Lab
The Caterpillar Lab
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
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Summer Discoveries: Butterflies (Ages 3-8)
Summer Discoveries: Butterflies (Ages 3-8)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Summertime is prime butterfly time! Join us to explore our Native Butterfly and Moth House, as well as other butterfly...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
The Caterpillar Walk
The Caterpillar Walk
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
The Caterpillar Lab is moving in, and while the exhibit is filled with munching critters offering lots to explore, the...
3 events,
The Caterpillar Lab
The Caterpillar Lab
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
The Caterpillar Walk
The Caterpillar Walk
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
The Caterpillar Lab is moving in, and while the exhibit is filled with munching critters offering lots to explore, the...
4 events,
Garden Investigators Camp: Pollinators! (Ages 6-8)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Monday, August 8-Friday August 12 Campers will spend the week getting up close and personal with the amazing pollinators making...
The Caterpillar Lab
The Caterpillar Lab
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
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Beginning Mosaics from A-Z
Beginning Mosaics from A-Z
Bosarge Family Education Center
Monday and Tuesday, August 8 and 9 | Join us to learn a brief history of the intriguing art of mosaic, including information on materials, substrates, and tools. Experience hands-on the different methods of working—direct, indirect, and double reverse—by using these methods to make a tile each day of class. We’ll talk about andamento, or way mosaic tiles are laid, as well as use of color and tile shape.
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
5 events,
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Marine Science: Where the Land Meets the Sea (Ages 9-15)
Marine Science: Where the Land Meets the Sea (Ages 9-15)
Bosarge Family Education Center / Partner Locations
Tuesday, August 9, Wednesday, August 10 and Tuesday, August 16 | During this three-part, shore-based marine science course, participants will investigate how geology, weather, and climate change over time and how these changes impact the organisms and plant life living in local rivers and in the Gulf of Maine. Compare and contrast local rivers, and investigate and identify what lies between the surface and the seafloor.
The Caterpillar Lab
The Caterpillar Lab
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
5 events,
Outdoor Family Fun Days
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Thanks to generous support from L.L.Bean, kids 17 and under are free every Wednesday in July and August, 2022. No...
The Caterpillar Lab
The Caterpillar Lab
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
4 events,
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Plant ID & Ecology: Native Deciduous Shrubs
Plant ID & Ecology: Native Deciduous Shrubs
Bosarge Family Education Center
Interested in learning about the benefits of incorporating native deciduous shrubs into your garden? Or maybe you already have shrubs...
Summer Discoveries: The Garden Habitat (Ages 3-8)
Summer Discoveries: The Garden Habitat (Ages 3-8)
Bosarge Family Education Center
The Gardens is home to many (many!) plants. In turn, those plants become home to lots of interesting creatures! Come...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
3 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Become a Guardian: Trees of the Trolls Tour
Become a Guardian: Trees of the Trolls Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Dive into forest ecology and discover how to become a better steward of our ecosystem, just like the Guardians of...
1 event,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
2 events,
Summer Discoveries: The Five Senses (Ages 3-8)
Summer Discoveries: The Five Senses (Ages 3-8)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Discover all that you can see, smell, hear, feel, and even taste as we tour the Lerner Garden of the...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
3 events,
Garden Explorers Camp (Ages 4-7) (Sold Out)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Monday, August 15-Friday, August 19 Budding gardeners will spend the week digging, planting, watering, and harvesting fruits and veggies in...
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Beautiful Buds and Blossoms in Colored Pencil
Beautiful Buds and Blossoms in Colored Pencil
Bosarge Family Education Center
Monday-Wednesday, August 15-17 | Join instructor Kate MacGillivary for this three-day class focusing on rendering the beautiful details of garden blossoms and buds in colored pencil. Designed for students with some previous drawing experience, this class offers plenty of time to create a beautiful drawing. Kate will give students the time and attention needed to get a wonderful feel for the medium of colored pencil. Plant material for students to study and draw will be provided.
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
2 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
3 events,
Outdoor Family Fun Days
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Thanks to generous support from L.L.Bean, kids 17 and under are free every Wednesday in July and August, 2022. No...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
2 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
4 events,
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10 Medicinal Plants: Morphology and Uses
10 Medicinal Plants: Morphology and Uses
Bosarge Family Education Center
In this workshop and field-study class, herbalism practitioner and staff horticulturalist Lesley Paxson will review 10 specific plants used for...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Become a Guardian: Trees of the Trolls Tour
Become a Guardian: Trees of the Trolls Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Dive into forest ecology and discover how to become a better steward of our ecosystem, just like the Guardians of...
3 events,
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Gardening With Nature (Sold Out)
Gardening With Nature (Sold Out)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Our gardens and gardening practices are intrinsically tied to nature. This class will guide students through the best design and management strategies that work in unison with nature, encouraging and embracing biodiversity and sustaining healthy, low-maintenance gardens. Anna Fialkoff, Program Manager at Wild Seed Project, offers an overview of plant selection and processes for achieving beautiful gardens requiring minimal manual labor.
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
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Wildlife in the Backyard: Insects (Ages 14+) (Cancelled)
Wildlife in the Backyard: Insects (Ages 14+) (Cancelled)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Want to enter the world of beetles, butterflies, bees, grasshoppers, wasps, and flies? Ages 14-adult are invited to join us...
1 event,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
2 events,
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Plant ID & Ecology: Grassland Plants
Plant ID & Ecology: Grassland Plants
Bosarge Family Education Center
Whether called fields, meadows, or pastures, these wide-open, full-sun terrains all feature a dominant grass population mixed with wildflowers and smaller woody species. In partnership with the Boothbay Region Land Trust, this class will guide students on walks at the Gardens, Oak Point, and Zak Preserve. Led by Ted Elliman, participants will learn how to identify and better understand meadow culture—perfect for those interested in starting or sustaining an open grassland!
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
2 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Native Plant Tour
Native Plant Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Our Native Plant Tour begins with a stroll down the Haney Hillside, moving from cultivated native plantings to the natural...
6 events,
Outdoor Family Fun Days
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Thanks to generous support from L.L.Bean, kids 17 and under are free every Wednesday in July and August, 2022. No...
Summer Discoveries: Life of a Plant (Ages 3-8)
Summer Discoveries: Life of a Plant (Ages 3-8)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Learn about what happens as a seed becomes a full-grown plant, then starts the entire cycle all over again! We’ll...
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Creating Meaningful Photographs with Ron Rosenstock
Creating Meaningful Photographs with Ron Rosenstock
Online
Join world-renowned photographer Ron Rosenstock for this Zoom lecture. Ron will elaborate on the three main ingredients needed to create...
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Chewonki at the Gardens: Mammals of Maine
Chewonki at the Gardens: Mammals of Maine
Alfond Children’s Garden
This exciting and interactive program introduces audiences to our native warm-blooded vertebrates: Maine mammals. Each participant can study a mounted...
2 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
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12th Annual Ina & Lewis Heafitz Endowed Lecture: Centering Indigenous Peoples & Nations in Land Protection & Conservation
12th Annual Ina & Lewis Heafitz Endowed Lecture: Centering Indigenous Peoples & Nations in Land Protection & Conservation
Bosarge Family Education Center
Explore the opportunities for Wabanaki-led conservation in what is now Maine in this year’s Ina and Lewis Heafitz Endowed Lecture with Dr. Darren Ranco. In this free, endowed lecture, he will share contemporary scholarship about Indigenous conservation practices, define the terminology used by Indigenous people for conservation work, and identify best practices for partnerships with environmental organizations and Indigenous peoples.
3 events,
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Designing with Specimen Trees
Designing with Specimen Trees
Bosarge Family Education Center
What exactly is a specimen tree? Good question! Specimen trees are trees that fulfill specific garden design goals, such as...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Become a Guardian: Trees of the Trolls Tour
Become a Guardian: Trees of the Trolls Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Dive into forest ecology and discover how to become a better steward of our ecosystem, just like the Guardians of...
1 event,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
1 event,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
2 events,
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Chewonki at the Gardens: Owls of Maine
Chewonki at the Gardens: Owls of Maine
Alfond Children’s Garden
Two live owls are the highlights of this program introducing participants to the owls native to Maine and New England....
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
1 event,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
3 events,
Outdoor Family Fun Days
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Thanks to generous support from L.L.Bean, kids 17 and under are free every Wednesday in July and August, 2022. No...
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Chewonki at the Gardens: Tide Pools
Chewonki at the Gardens: Tide Pools
Alfond Children’s Garden
The tide pool is home to a variety of species whose unique adaptations allow them to maintain stability in a...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
1 event,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
1 event,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
2 events,
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Forest Therapy and Tea (Sold Out)
Forest Therapy and Tea (Sold Out)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Deepening your connection to nature through moving meditation offers enormous benefits for personal well-being. In this gentle class, experience how the simple practice of walking mindfully through a forest can provide deep serenity. By engaging with all five senses, we can enhance awareness and presence. Follow Susan Bickford, certified guide in the ancient Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku, or forest therapy/forest bathing, and gain the tools needed to begin your own meditation practice. The walk ends with a tea ceremony.
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
