
Discover the Deadly Side of Plants: A Tropical Butterfly Conservatory Tour
Stroll through Colorado’s tropical butterfly conservatory, and encounter the world’s most intriguing and roguish plants. Learn how carnivorous plants trap their prey, discover the deceptive strategies of orchids, and delve into the world of toxic plant compounds that can affect insects—and sometimes even humans!

Harlequin's Gardens Class: Growing Your Best Garlic
Got your Garlic? Now get the info to grow your best garlic ever!

Microbes and Wildlife in a Rapidly Changing World: From Colorado Boreal Toads to African Grey Parrots
How can microbes help wildlife conservation? Join CU Professor Valerie McKenzie to learn about relationships between microbes and wildlife, and how her research is exploring use of microbes to help declining boreal toad populations and fight against wildlife trafficking.

Beaver Moon Hike
Join Friends of Coal Creek for a short hike: look and listen for the nocturnal residents of the creek: great horned owls, coyotes, turkeys and the last hardy crickets of summer.

Integrating Biodiversity into Climate Resilience and Natural infrastructure Strategies
The is the second in a four-part series with opportunities to meet, engage with, and explore opportunities for advancing urban biodiversity as an integral ingredient in community resilience and well-being.

Basics of Tree Pruning: Keeping Your Urban Trees Healthy
Freddie Haberecht, Senior Forester with the City of Fort Collins, will go over the basics of urban tree pruning. Starting from the nursery, what is a good tree structure and how to keep your urban canopy happy! This

Partnerships for Biodiversity & Equity: A Global Approach to One Health / Planetary Health
This is the third in a series that offers opportunities to meet, engage with, and explore opportunities for advancing urban biodiversity as an integral ingredient in community resilience and well-being.

Biodiversity Enhanced Urban Spaces and the Path Forward
This is the last in a series that offers opportunities to meet, engage with, and explore opportunities for advancing urban biodiversity as an integral ingredient in community resilience and well-being.

Biodiversity’s Role in Resilient Communities: Why it Matters Now
Join the first in a digital dialogue series that offers opportunities to meet, engage with, and explore opportunities for advancing urban biodiversity as an integral ingredient in community resilience and well-being.

Interactive Talk: How We Heal the Earth—and Ourselves—Together
This engaging and interactive talk blends climate science with emotional resilience. You’ll explore what’s happening locally with climate change, highlight hopeful solutions already underway in Colorado, and introduce a few simple coaching tools to help attendees manage eco-anxiety and stay grounded.

Webinar: Wildfire Home Hardening and Defensible Space
Brought to you by the St. Vrain Forest Health Partnership, this webinar will cover how to reduce wildfire risk to your home, and how that can help with you homeowner’s insurance.

Fruit Preparation and Preservation for Kids and Families
Kids and grown-ups - join Community Fruit Rescue to explore tasty and creative ways to make the most of the harvest!

Indigenous Seed Saving with Harvest of all First Nations
Join Narissa Ribera of Ch’il Indigenous Foods for a hands-on class in Indigenous seed saving, rooted in ancestral knowledge and land stewardship practices. Participants will learn traditional methods for harvesting, storing, and sharing heirloom seeds, with a focus on culturally significant plants of the Southwest. This class offers both practical skills and cultural context, empowering community members to carry forward the resilience of Indigenous foodways.

Spiders After Dark: An Exclusive Tour with Entomologist Cori Brant
Enter the world of spiders with this exclusive, adults-only after-hours tour led by Butterfly Pavilion entomologist Cori Brant. With Cori as your guide, you’ll gain insider knowledge about the spiders’ behaviors, adaptations, and the critical roles they play in ecosystems across the globe.

Indigenous People's Day: Breaking Barriers to Native Education for All
Right Relationship Boulder presents Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2025: Breaking Barriers to Native Education For All

Harvest Gathering: A Farm to Table Connection Experience
Join Friend’s Farm for an evening that celebrates both exceptional local food and meaningful human connection.

Volunteer Day: Building Habitat Piles
At this Wildlands Restoration Volunteers project, volunteers will construct wildlife habitat piles—carefully built stacks of branches and woody debris that provide shelter for birds, small mammals, reptiles, and other native wildlife.

Growing Gardens Community Harvest Festival
Join Growing Gardens for their free fall celebration at their urban farm! There will live bluegrass music and food trucks, plus fun activities like face painting and lawn games, Goat Dairy goats, and more.

Owl Moon: A Night Adventure into the World of Owls
Join naturalist Dave Sutherland for a hike all about owls!

Canning Made Easy: Applesauce Edition
Join Community Fruit Rescue for this beginner-friendly, expert-led class where you’ll learn the basics of canning and preserving using one of the simplest (and tastiest) recipes—homemade applesauce!

Boulder Apple Fest!
Celebrate Boulder’s apple abundance with Community Fruit Rescue and Benevolence Orchard & Gardens! This gathering celebrates the hands and hearts behind Boulder’s fruit — from orchard caretakers and tree stewards to community harvesters who make abundance accessible to all. Enjoy an apple-themed potluck, cider pressing, live music, yard games, and apple crafts for all ages.

Tallgrass Colors
Join naturalist Dave Sutherland for a hike to see the beautiful fall colors of the fall grasses!

The Secret Lives of Bumble Bees Webinar: Nesting and Overwintering
Join Genevieve Pugesek, Xerces Endangered Species Conservation Biologist, to discuss bumble bee nesting and overwintering ecology, how land management can impact nesting and overwintering bumble bees, and what you can do to help scientists learn more about bumble bee habitat needs.

Panel: Starting a Farm Business
If you've worked on farms and want to start your own, this panel is a goldmine of knowledge from people who've done it! Join Flatiron Farmers Coalition for this informative panel.

Community BioBlitz at Westminster Hills
Join Butterfly Pavilion's Urban Prairies Project out in the field to learn about the incredible plants and animals that call our Colorado landscape home! Collect valuable information that will be used in creating healthy space, all while engaging in a beautiful natural area teeming with wildlife.

Fire-wise Gardening Workshop
Join Friends of Coal Creek and Curtis of Meadow Pro for this informative workshop on fire-wise gardening!

Growing Up Boulder: Picnic in the Park
Picnics in the Park are joyful community gatherings where families enjoy pizza and refreshments provided by the City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Dept. and children enjoy nature through free play and activities led by Growing Up Boulder.

Bumble Bee Bash (PPAN Fundraiser)
The Bumble Bee Bash is a beloved annual tradition for PPAN. It's not just a fundraiser, it's a celebration and an opportunity to take in all that is good and refuel to keep up the good work.

EcoBeneficial Landscape Strategies for the Climate Crisis with Kim Eierman
Join Wild Ones Front Range f and Kim Eierman for this free webinar on landscaping with native plants, and why that’s beneficial for the climate crisis.

Dharma's Garden Farm Tour
Experience the living story of Dharma’s Garden, one of the few urban farms in Boulder!

Invertebrate Investigations - Delightful Decomposers
Decomposition - it's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it! Join the Butterfly Pavillion for this month's Invertebrate Investigation where we'll learn about nature's clean-up crew and how they help keep our planet healthy.

Longmont Community Water Academy
The Community Water Academy will offer a behind-the-scenes look at how water travels from mountain sources to your home and how everyone can play a role in preserving this vital resource.

2025 Bee Boulder Festival
Please join Cool Boulder and Boulder Parks and Rec for the 11th Annual Bee Boulder Festival in Boulder’s downtown Central Park (next door to the Boulder Farmers Market on 13th Street)! Featuring Jeff & Paige music performances, guided art activities, facepainting, giant walking bees, and nearly 30 exhibiting partners who are dedicated to nature-based climate solutions and pollinator friendly practices!

Fall Forage and Herb Walk
Join herbalist Catherine Hunziker for a walk through a medicinal demonstration garden as well as take a walk around the whole farm to see the wild medicinals and edibles in several different microclimates.

Garden to Table 20th Anniversary Celebration
Join Garden to Table for their 20th anniversary celebration!

Connecting With the Seasons: PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES & GARDEN CARE
Join Dharma’s Garden for their September iteration of the connecting with the seasons series! Students will learn basic principles of soil care, including biodynamic and permaculture strategies that foster healthy and diverse gardens.

Growing Up Boulder: Picnic in the Park
Picnics in the Park are joyful community gatherings where families enjoy pizza and refreshments provided by the City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Dept. and children enjoy nature through free play and activities led by Growing Up Boulder.

Bitter Nectar, Toxic Pollen: Pollinators and Plant Chemicals
Join Xerces Society for this informational webinar on toxic pollen!