Join us in planting for pollinators! Austin Davenport, local gardening guru and native plant pro, will provide a hands-on workshop where attendees get to plant their own pollinator garden with native seedlings grown right here in Austin! Each attendee gets their own grow bag and gets to select and plant fall blooming seedlings to support local pollinators.

Join us for a day celebrating mushrooms, worms and birds! Central Texas Mycological Society will host their scarecrow mushroom cultivation workshop and bucket tek workshop. Enjoy a presentation by the Travis Audubon Society to learn which native plants attract birds to your yard along with a fun craft activity to take home. Then discover how red wiggler worms help the soil and composting with hands on activities presented by Keep Austin Beautiful throughout the day.

10am – Central Texas Mycological Society

Lo-tek Mushroom Cultivation Scarecrow Workshop

Join us for a workshop that combines a bunch of spooktacular things we love about fungi! First, fun with fungi while learning basics of mycoremediation growing mushrooms outdoors, and creating a scarecrow to protect your garden. Since it’s okay to decay, we will be building scarecrow together that will decompose over the fall and winter with the help of recycled oyster mushroom blocks.

11am – Travis Audubon Society

Gardening for Birds with Native Plants

Do you want to attract more birds to your yard or neighborhood greenbelt? In this talk you will find out how native plants help birds, and get acquainted with several easy to grow native plants that appeal to birds and other wildlife.

12pm - Central Texas Mycological Society

Bucket tek Workshop (Registration Required)

Learn how to recycle mushroom blocks to build healthy soil, sequester carbon, increase water retention and divert organic matter from the waste stream. *The Bucket tek Workshop requires registration and for you to bring your own container.*

10am-2pm – Keep Austin Beautiful

Wormy Composting

We will bring our vermi-compost bin and youth will have the opportunity to explore the wonders of our red wiggler worms!

Click here for more information and to register for Bucket tek!

Get ready to celebrate live oaks (Quercus fusiformis), pecans (Carya illinoinensis) and cedar elms (Ulmus crassifolia) — Texas Arbor Day is Saturday, Nov. 4!

We’re offering FREE admission all day and special activities from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Texas Arbor Day Schedule

In addition to ongoing events like Fortlandia and Power the Migration: A Monarch Exhibition, Texas Arbor Day guests are invited to: 

9:30 a.m. — Meet our friends from organizations like Bartlett Tree Experts and the Texas Military Environmental Department as well as members of our Science and Conservation Department, in house arborists and horticulturists in the Courtyard.

10:30 a.m. — Take a garden tour with Bartlett Tree Experts and learn all about cultural practices and structural pruning for young trees.

10 a.m. — Learn how to age trees at an extra-special Drop-in & Discover

11:45 a.m. — Enjoy a tree planting demonstration with Bartlett Tree Experts

TBD a.m. — Tour the Arboretum with Kelsey, one of our skilled Wildflower Center Arborists.

1 p.m. — Learn how evolution influences the form and structure of trees at our Morphology of Oaks and Trees class (FREE! Space is limited, pre-registration is encouraged but not required)

Any Teenagers in the House?

Bring them to come celebrate our local flora and pollinators during Carver Branch's Teen Social! Join us as we learn and explore the intersection of art and nature!

What's Your Nature Dates: 10/19, 10/24, 10/26 & 11/2

Learn about the Mexican tradition of Dia de los Muertos with this fun storytelling program of flannelgraphs, shadow puppet show, La Catrina song and dance, followed by butterfly puppet and skull mask-making crafts.

Join Bee City Austin at Two Hives Honey, a real honey bee ranch, for a family-friendly Pollinator Carnival! Dress as your favorite pollinator for this family-friendly fun-filled day for kids of all ages. Activities include making native seed packs to take home, a native bee scavenger hunt, observe a real observation hive, make your own bee antennae, and more!

This is a great opportunity for kids to learn all about our native pollinators. Plus, Adults can register for a FREE workshop on native bees! In this one hour workshop you will learn all about the thousands of species of bees that call Texas home and how we can support them. Every participant will go home with a fun, free tool to help identify native bees in their own backyard.|

Wing your way to the Southeast Branch Library for our first ever Butterfly Festival, a family event where we will be celebrating the butterfly and its connections to Dia de los Muertos. Take a look at our butterfly habitat where painted lady butterflies are growing, make butterfly crafts, and learn about the butterfly life cycle with Texas Master Naturalists. Then, enjoy a butterfly-themed Día de los Muertos performance and refreshments.

Any Teenagers in the House?

Bring them to come celebrate our local flora and pollinators during Carver Branch's Teen Social! Join us as we learn and explore the intersection of art and nature!

What's Your Nature Dates: 10/19, 10/24, 10/26 & 11/2

Come one, come all to celebrate the Roots & Wings Festival 2023 with a Dual-Language Storytime highlighting all the great things about pollinators and our wildlife friends!

Learn about the Mexican tradition of Dia de los Muertos with this fun storytelling program of flannelgraphs, shadow puppet show, La Catrina song and dance, followed by butterfly puppet and skull mask-making crafts!

Any Teenagers in the House?

Bring them to come celebrate our local flora and pollinators during Carver Branch's Teen Social! Join us as we learn and explore the intersection of art and nature!

What's Your Nature Dates: 10/19, 10/24, 10/26 & 11/2

Join us at the Milwood Branch of the Austin Public Library for a fun family event for all ages! Activities include a nature scavenger hunt, seedball crafts, plant propagation station, and plant and seed swap.

Come learn about bats and how they are vital to ecosystems around the world. Some bats help maintain the balance of pests and others pollinate some of our favorite plants. Meet a bat that lives at the Austin Nature & Science Center. Hosted with Bat Conservation International.

Let's swap plants and make tiny, macramé plant hangers with supplies provided by the Austin Public Library. All people and plants are welcome.

Join Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center during Roots & Wings for the second annual opening of “Power the Migration: A Monarch Exhibit"!

Stop by on October 21st from 10am - 12pm for a special monarch themed activity to mark the beginning of the Roots & Wings Festival! Visitors to this exhibit will have the opportunity to get a close-up look at live monarch specimens as they journey through their life-cycle, learn about the monarch migratory route, observe monarch lookalikes, and explore the cultural significance of monarchs in Hispanic heritage and Dia de los Muertos celebrations.

Also take home valuable tips and tricks for cultivating pollinator gardens and monarch waystations in your homes as you view our demonstration gardens. Guests will have a chance to view photography by Theresa DiMenno as part of their recent show, “Delicate Balance: Metamorphosis of the Monarch Butterfly".

Most importantly, guests will learn how they, too, can support these endangered creatures by cultivating and protecting native plants for pollinators.

Included with Admission: https://www.wildflower.org/visit

Beginning September 17th (Austin Museum Day), “Power the Migration: A Monarch Exhibit" will be open to all guests each Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10am - 1pm in the Little House. This exhibit will end on November 11th, just after Texas Arbor Day.

Enjoy stories and seedball crafts to learn about bugs, flowers, and pollination in the Children’s Area at the Central Library!

Learn about the Mexican tradition of Día de los Muertos with this fun storytelling program of flannelgraphs, shadow puppet show, La Catrina song and dance, followed by butterfly puppet and skull mask-making crafts.