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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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...
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,
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...
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...
Wetlands Tour
Wetlands Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for a staff-led walk through our many wetlands down to the Back River. On this tour, learn how...
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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Selecting Native Woody Plants
Selecting Native Woody Plants
Online & Bosarge Family Education Center
Friday, September 9 and Saturday, September 17 | Learn how native woody plants enhance both our landscapes and local biodiversity. Over two days, study these plants, from identification to habitat to their role as host plants for the insects and pollinators critical for plant management and reproduction.
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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Landscaping for Wildlife (Sold Out)
Landscaping for Wildlife (Sold Out)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Habitat loss is the primary cause of declining wildlife populations. This interactive course teaches students how to incorporate select native plants and mechanical practices into their own landscapes to create a welcoming habitat that attracts wildlife, conserves natural resources, and encourages biodiversity.
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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Botanical Research at the Gardens
Botanical Research at the Gardens
Bosarge Family Education Center
Join Spencer O’Bryan, CMBG’s Science and Collections Information Coordinator, as he takes us through our Herbarium and plant collection to...
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,
Fall Explorers: Monarchs (Ages 3-7)
Fall Explorers: Monarchs (Ages 3-7)
Bosarge Family Education Center
The famous and well-loved monarch is the inspiration for this program! Participants will learn all about this beautiful butterfly, from...
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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Budding Naturalist: Monarch Investigations (Ages 8-14)
Budding Naturalist: Monarch Investigations (Ages 8-14)
Bosarge Family Education Center
The famous and well-loved monarch is the inspiration for this program! Participants will learn all about this beautiful butterfly, from...
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,
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Edible Natives to Grow at Home
Edible Natives to Grow at Home
Bosarge Family Education Center
Join Andy Brand, the Gardens’ Director of Horticulture, on a walk to identify native edible plants living in their desired natural habitats, then learn how to incorporate these edibles into your home garden. Rather than foraging, this class focuses on the opportunity to grow these native edibles sustainably at home, leaving the foraging to the wildlife who need these plants for survival.
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...
4 events,
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Native Plants: Collecting & Sowing Seed (Ages 14+)
Native Plants: Collecting & Sowing Seed (Ages 14+)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Join Heather McCargo, for a hands-on experience in native seed propagation, from ecologically responsible seed collection and storing procedures to germination techniques. Participants will go seed collecting in CMBG’s native plant gardens and learn about setting up an outdoor propagation area at home. Come learn the best techniques for sowing natives, and take home several pots sown with seeds.
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Owls, Butterflies and Other Flying Friends: Working in Encaustic Paint
Owls, Butterflies and Other Flying Friends: Working in Encaustic Paint
Bosarge Family Education Center
Monday and Tuesday, September 19 and 20 Enjoy two days exploring the ancient medium of encaustic, a fluid, hot beeswax...
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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Invasive Plants: Issues, Identification and Ecology
Invasive Plants: Issues, Identification and Ecology
Online & Maine Coast Heritage Trust
Mondays, September 19, 26, and October 3 | Invasive species are considered highly undesirable by botany, ecology, horticulture, and conservation professionals—and for good reason. In this two-day course, Amanda Devine, Regional Land Steward for Maine Coast Heritage Land Trust, will identify the basic ecological problems surrounding these aggressive, tenacious plants; the complicated (and sometimes political) issues surrounding them; and how a plant becomes labeled “invasive.”
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...
3 events,
Fall Explorers: Decomposers (Ages 3-7)
Fall Explorers: Decomposers (Ages 3-7)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Come and search for underground life with us! Participants will learn about the important role decomposers play in helping our...
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...
Wetlands Tour
Wetlands Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for a staff-led walk through our many wetlands down to the Back River. On this tour, learn how...
2 events,
Fall Explorers: Monarchs (Ages 3-7)
Fall Explorers: Monarchs (Ages 3-7)
Bosarge Family Education Center
The famous and well-loved monarch is the inspiration for this program! Participants will learn all about this beautiful butterfly, from...
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...
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...
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...
Cider Saturdays
Cider Saturdays
Alfond Children’s Garden
Enjoy and learn about one of our country’s greatest and tastiest seasonal traditions, apple cider pressing! Learn the basics 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,
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Watercolor for Botanical & Nature Enthusiasts (Sold Out)
Watercolor for Botanical & Nature Enthusiasts (Sold Out)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Monday-Wednesday, September 26-28 Spend three full days exploring the wonderful world of watercolor, in-person with artist Mindy Lighthipe. Learn valuable...
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...
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Nature of Oaks
Nature of Oaks
Online
Oaks sustain a complex and fascinating web of wildlife. Come learn what happens in their branches, month by month, a tangible cycle of life, death, and renewal. From woodpeckers harvesting hundreds of acorns to the jewel caterpillars grazing greenery, Tallamy describes and celebrates these backyard wonders. Learn practical advice about planting and caring for oaks and the best oak species for your area. Leave inspired to treasure, nurture, and protect these remarkable trees.
2 events,
Fall Explorers: Trees (Ages 3-7)
Fall Explorers: Trees (Ages 3-7)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Join us for a scavenger hunt through the woods as we learn how to identify some of Maine’s native trees...
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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Budding Naturalist: Maine Wildlife Walk (Ages 8-14)
Budding Naturalist: Maine Wildlife Walk (Ages 8-14)
Bosarge Family Education Center
In this active field study class, students will explore the Gardens’ many habitats, learning how to identify signs of animals...
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,
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Plant ID & Ecology: Asters
Plant ID & Ecology: Asters
Bosarge Family Education Center
This class will focus on the identification of 20 - 25 of Maine’s asters. Not only looking alike, but blooming...
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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Plant ID & Ecology: Goldenrods
Plant ID & Ecology: Goldenrods
Bosarge Family Education Center
This class will focus on the identification of 10 – 15 of Maine’s goldenrods. Not only looking alike, but blooming...
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...
Cider Saturdays
Cider Saturdays
Alfond Children’s Garden
Enjoy and learn about one of our country’s greatest and tastiest seasonal traditions, apple cider pressing! Learn the basics of...
