Farming at Boyd Hill Garden
2025-07-10 15:30 - 17:00, 2025-07-17 15:30 - 17:00, 2025-07-24 15:30 - 17:00, 2025-07-31 15:30 - 17:00, 2025-08-07 15:30 - 17:00, 2025-08-14 15:30 - 17:00, 2025-08-21 15:30 - 17:00, 2025-08-28 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) and 2 more dates | Pinellas Pioneer Settlement, 3130 31st Street South, St. Petersburg, FL, 33712, United States
Fun, hands-on education on organic gardening, raising chickens, and fun activities from 4-H curricula.
Ages 7 yrs – 11 yrs
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Bee Kind and Save the Bees Workshop
2025-07-13 15:00 - 16:00 | Majeed Discovery Garden, 12520 Ulmerton Road, Largo, FL, 33774, United States
Eloise Cole from USF StudentPIRG (Public Interest Research Group) will demonstrate how bees play an essential role in our environment. Kids can learn about pollinators, honey, bee threats, and how to be more bee friendly!
Workshop is free but you must register ahead of time to save a seat!
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Reptile Wednesdays with Dennis!
2025-07-16 10:00 - 15:30, 2025-07-23 10:00 - 15:30, 2025-07-30 10:00 - 15:30, 2025-08-06 10:00 - 15:30, 2025-08-13 10:00 - 15:30, 2025-08-20 10:00 - 15:30, 2025-08-27 10:00 - 15:30, 2025-09-03 10:00 - 15:30 and 2 more dates | Moccasin Lake Environmental Education Center, 2750 Park Trail Lane, Clearwater, FL, United States
Explore reptiles with a friendly expert, get your questions answered, and level up your knowledge in a relaxed, beginner-friendly session.

Dennis is the president of the Suncoast Herpetological Society, Inc. and spends his Wednesdays at Moccasin Lake Nature Park educating guests about reptiles.

Come with your questions!

Landscape & Wildlife Photography
2025-07-26 10:30 - 11:30 | Brooker Creek Environmental Education Center, 3940 Keystone Road, Tarpon Springs, FL, 34688, United States
Join photographers Karl and Kathleen Nichter for an introduction to nature photography!
Are you interested in landscape and wildlife photography in Florida? Join photographer/naturalists Karl and Kathleen Nichter for a program on these two areas of photography. They will be showing a lot of examples of both types along with how they were taken, where, what cameras and settings, and tips and tricks for finding and making your own shots.
Although we won’t be taking any photographs during this session, if you have any camera questions bring your camera along and we will do our best to answer them.
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Important Additional Notes: It takes about 10 minutes to drive from the preserve entrance (Keystone Rd.) to the parking lot, and there is a 3-5 minute walk from the parking lot to the Education Center buildings. This event will be held in the auditorium.

Community Tree Care Workshop
2025-08-01 09:00 - 16:00 | Hudson Regional Library, 8012 Library Rd Off Fivay Rd, Hudson, FL, 34667, United States
Urban tree selection, planting, care and maintenance topics will be covered in this free day-long workshop.

Are you interested in learning about proper tree care?
Whether you are an individual homeowner, hold a position of community leadership (HOA Board and Committee members and CAM’s), maintain trees for a municipality or other public entity, or work in urban planning, the Community Tree Care Workshop is for you!
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Learning Objectives
Attendees will be able to:

Describe the importance of hiring a certified professional to conduct structural tree pruning
Identify how to locate a certified professional and develop reasonable and achievable contract specifications
Develop a maintenance plan for any exisiting trees for which you are responsible
Identify proper planting, establishment and pruning methods for optimal tree longevity
Select an appropriate tree species for a given location
Identify the benefits associated with a healthy community tree canopy

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Agenda (order of topics subject to change)
9:00AM Welcome and Introductions
9:15AM What is a Tree? Biology and Benefits of Trees in Urban Landscapes
10:00AM Right Tree, Right Place: Selection, Planting and Establishment of Trees
10:45AM Break
11:00AM Pruning Trees for Health and Structure
12:00NOON Lunch on Your Own (1 hour)
1:00PM Hiring a Certified Professional: Where to Look, How to Hire, etc.
1:45PM Developing a Tree Maintenance Plan
2:30PM Working with Your Community: Knowing Relevant Codes, Permits, etc.
3:00PM Trees and Storms: Reality and Response
4:00PM Adjourn
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This workshop is a collaborative event between UF/IFAS Extension Hillsborough County and UF/IFAS Extension Pasco County staff.

Grafting & Air Layering
2025-08-07 09:00 - 11:00 | UF/IFAS Extension, Hillsborough County, 5339 County Road 579, Seffner, FL, 33584, United States
Grafting & air layering techniques!
Join UF/IFAS Extension Urban Forestry Agent, Alyssa Vinson for an interactive skill building workshop all about grafting and air layering. Be prepared to practice.
If you have any questions, please contact the UF/IFAS Extension Hillsborough County at (813) 744-5519.
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The University of Florida is committed to providing universal access to all of our events. For disability accommodations such as sign language interpreters and listening devices, please contact: VinsonA@HCFL.gov, 813-744-5519 Ext. 54106, at least 1 week in advance. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.

Gardening in Florida Soil
2025-08-11 18:00 - 19:00 | Regency Park Library, 9701 Little Road, New Port Richey, FL, 34654, United States
Come learn how healthy soil is a foundation to human health and supports diverse ecosystems at this seminar
‘Healthy living soils provides us with our everyday needs…food, grass, plants and trees.’ Healthy soil is a foundation to human health and supports diverse ecosystems. Nutritious soil is the basic for any plants’ success.
Discover how easy it is to improve our Florida Soils, and enhance your knowledge of what is already in the soil. Understanding about our soils will aid us in providing enrichment to this basic growing material to support the plants we grow and/or maintain in our own ecosystems.
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Great Southeast Pollinator Census
2025-08-22 - 2025-08-23 | Moccasin Lake Environmental Education Center, 2750 Park Trail Lane, Clearwater, FL, United States
The Great Southeast Pollinator Census is a citizen science project created by the University of Georgia. It is open to residents of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina. It is designed for everyone to participate and make a difference for pollinator conservation!
The City of Clearwater and the Pinellas Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society are hosting a two-day counting event at Moccasin Lake Nature Park from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Friday, August 22nd and Saturday, August 23rd.
Participants will be assigned an area of the butterfly garden in the park and will be asked to record their observations of the following kinds of pollinators: bumblebees, honeybees, carpenter bees, small bees, wasps, butterflies, and other pollinators. The organizers will collect the observations and submit them to the University of Georgia. Count sheets and other information will be provided to participants. Nonprofit vendors will be on hand with information about pollinator conservation.
MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION LINKS HERE

Pollinators
2025-08-30 11:00 - 12:00 | Hugh Embry Library, 14215 4th Street, Dade City, FL, 33523, United States
Who are the pollinators and why are they important to our world?
Pollinators are critical to our ecosystem, and they are in trouble. Who are the pollinators and why are they important to our world? Why we should care about them and how we can help them survive our ever-increasingly warm climate.
A healthy garden with the right plants will support natural beneficial insects and their needs. Learn what’s causing their decline and how planting a pollinator friendly habitat in our yards will benefit them and us!
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Clean Up the Tampa Audubon Sanctuary
2025-09-06 09:00 - 11:00 | FL
As our part of an agreement between Port Tampa Bay and the Sierra Club to manage the Westshore Audubon Sanctuary, we are collaborating on a cleanup on September 6, Saturday, meeting at 9 a.m. and working until 11 that morning to remove trash and debris from the area on the north side of San Jose Street. Dress in walk-in-the-water closed-toe shoes and long pants and long-sleeved shirts. Let Todd Randolph of the Tampa Bay Sierra Club know you will come, please toddrrandolph@gmail.com.

The Westshore Sanctuary offers natural shoreline habitat, with mangroves, cordgrass, sandbars, oyster beds, and mudflats. Mangrove crabs, small fish, and night herons are resident. It remains a special, unchanged, natural shoreline along the west shore of Tampa’s Interbay Peninsula. For more information, please contact President Ann Paul at Ann.Paul@tampaaudubon.org

VEGETABLE GARDENING
2025-09-11 11:30 - 12:30 | Boyd Hill Nature Preserve Classroom, 1101 COUNTRY CLUB WY S, St. Petersburg, FL, 33705, United States
Part of our ongoing Master Gardener Speaker Series, discover tried and true techniques to grow vegetables, herbs, and small fruit trees in our challenging Florida climate.
Join a Pinellas County Master Gardener to learn container or bed preparation, the best crops for each of our three growing seasons, and environmentally friendly fertilizing and pest control.
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Parks for Pollinators Bio Blitz!
2025-09-13 09:00 - 12:00 | Largo Central Park Nature Preserve, 150 Highland Ave. N, Largo, FL, 33770, United States
Take part in Citizen Science and help conserve our mini-wildlife at Largo Central Park Nature Preserve!

Join the Parks for Pollinators BioBlitz 2025 and Help Save Local Pollinators!
A Bio Blitz is a quick, targeted survey of species in a particular area.
At this event we will learn and practice making observations of pollinators and the flowers they are visiting. Observations made at this event with the iNaturalist phone app will be added to a national database that tracks the health of pollinators across the country. Meet local naturalists, learn how to use the iNaturalist app, and explore the trails to make your first observations with experts on hand!
Educators from the Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center and the City of Largo Parks Department will be on hand to get you started at this BioBlitz. Then, participants are invited to continue making observations for the month of September in any park in Pinellas County!
This event will be held at Largo Central Park Nature Preserve
Every Observation = Real Scientific Data
By participating, you’re not only helping to raise awareness — you’re contributing to real data that helps Pinellas County and conservation organizations across the Country make better decisions for wildlife and land management.
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Learn More: www.nrpa.org/BioBlitz
