Category Archives: Local Events

Photo by Holly Shanks

National Pollinator Week, June 19-25, 2017, focuses on the importance of pollinators for the health of ecosystems as well as our own survival.

The Saint Louis Zoo has released information about its upcoming POLLINATOR DINNER. The popular annual event will feature a  special “Native Foods, Native Peoples and Native Pollinators” dinner focusing on the rich food and cultural history of Native Americans that native pollinators help provide. Also, exhibitor tables and displays about Native Americans, bees and other pollinators, food and agriculture, and gardening and habitat restoration.

Guest speaker is Jane Breckenridge, co-director of Tribal Environmental Action for Monarchs (TEAM). She will present her presentation of “Restoring the Connections: How Native Culture and Science Are Working Together to Create a New Model for Conservation.”

Registration is required for the June 20 event. The cost is $50 for adults (13 and older) and $25 for children. Proceeds help support the Saint Louis Zoo’s Wildcare Institute Center for Native Pollinator Conservation. More information or to register CLICK HERE. 

More from the Saint Louis Zoo release below.

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Join Webster University Sustainability and Butterfly Energy Works on Wednesdays during the summer months beginning May 31st from 12pm-1pm to learn about strategies and solutions being created and used right here in our local community to improve environmental, social and economic sustainability. The first session will feature Wayne Garver, president of the Gateway Electric Vehicle Club.
The lunch lectures include a free lunch and free opportunity to learn from a local environmental sustainability champion. After the final session on August 2nd, attendees will be entered into a drawing to win a Rolling Ridge Nursery gift card! Attendees will receive an entry for each session attended.

More details, such as speakers and building/room locations, can be found online HERE.  To register for a Lunch & Learn: CLICK HERE.

Parking is available in Garden Park Plaza parking garage. For more information contact Kelsey Wingo at kelseywingo07@webster.edu or by phone at 314-246-8611.

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Gateway Greening will be giving away the remaining plants from thier annual plant sale for FREE at the Carriage House location (3815 Bell Ave., St. Louis, MO 63108) from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., on Thursday, May 25, 2017.

This year Gateway Greening experienced an overwhelming abundance of donations to our annual plant sale. Despite seeing many beautiful plants heading off in the hands of gardeners just like you last weekend, we still have many more in need of good homes.

For more information contact Gateway Greening at (314) 588-9600.

Photo by Diana Linsley, Webster-Kirkwood Times.

Wondering what topic story time at the Powder Valley Nature Center will be this month? Find out by attending “You & Me Under The Canopy: Oh, Deer!”

Location: Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center
Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2017, 10 – 11 a.m.
Ages: 2 – 6

Meet in the nature center lobby for a “nature” adventure. Everyone will hike with the naturalist to a special place in the forest and enjoy a nature story under the tree canopy. Siblings are welcome.

(Reservations required by calling 314-301-1500. Reserve by May 16, 2017) MDC website event link – HERE.

Photo courtesy West End Word.

The National Park Service invites the public to celebrate 101 years of service during Junior Ranger Day and National Park Week, April 15-23, 2017.

FREE, family-friendly, interactive programs focusing on national parks will be available at the Old Courthouse, part of Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.

See a list of free activities below…

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Kirkwood’s Earth Day has been RESCHEDULED to May 6.