Upcoming Events

Students will learn about insects beginning with their unique eyesight and the way they defend themselves against predators. See how camouflage works and take home fun finger puppets!

Meet some animal friends with Yaphank Farm. 

Meet some animal friends with Yaphank Farm. 

Learn about a variety of reptiles and their lifestyles. This program will have live animals including snakes, turtles and tortoises.

Help maintain our Community Garden by weeding, watering, sweeping, pruning, and harvesting. Each session will also include an interactive nature activity. This week’s topic is creating handmade Wind Chimes for our garden. 

So many birds on Long Island and so many are here in summer raising a family! It makes summertime so much fun! Using fun facts and wonderful photos, Dianne Taggart, long time LI birder, will tell us all about the amazing nesting birds of LI.

Learn all about vertebrates with Sweetbriar nature center. 

Learn all about vertebrates with Sweetbriar nature center. 

Join Quogue Wildlife Refuge to learn about a variety of nocturnal creatures, then meet a few of them! 

Help maintain our Community Garden by weeding, watering, sweeping, pruning, and harvesting. Each session will also include an interactive nature activity.

Fire-breathing beasts, galloping unicorns! Discover the myths and legends surrounding these interesting creatures! 

Fire-breathing beasts, galloping unicorns! Discover the myths and legends surrounding these interesting creatures! 

Vertebrates are animals with a backbone and an inside hardened skeleton. In this presentation, live representatives from four of the five groups of vertebrates will be shown.

Vertebrates are animals with a backbone and an inside hardened skeleton. In this presentation, live representatives from four of the five groups of vertebrates will be shown.

Sweetbriar Nature Center is a wildlife rehabilitation facility. We take care of injured, sick, and orphaned animals. In this presentation, participants will meet some of our resident non-releasable animals and find out their stories.

Help maintain our Community Garden by weeding, watering, sweeping, pruning, and harvesting. Each session will also include an interactive nature activity.

Help maintain our Community Garden by weeding, watering, sweeping, pruning, and harvesting. Each session will also include an interactive nature activity.

Help maintain our Community Garden by weeding, watering, sweeping, pruning, and harvesting. As we clean up the garden for the year, we will be harvesting seeds from marigolds, zinnias, and sunflowers.

Fascinating, mysterious and beautiful! Owls are all of these things and we see many here on Long Island.