Fourth Fridays for Families: Out of The Mud, Beautiful Flowers with Priscilla Hayes and Joanne Zuckerman (March 24)

Spring is mud season. Out of the bare, wet earth all sorts of plants are popping up to grab sun rays before the trees can shade them. Kids 3 to 6 and their caregivers will join in celebrating and learning about “spring ephemerals,” the gorgeous little plants that bloom and fade before most other plants have finished growing their leaves. Each child will plant native seeds to be grown at home, and we will pretend to be spring ephemerals popping up. The program includes a walk and reading more about glorious mud and spring.

Priscilla Hayes has been designing and implementing hands-on environmental education programs for children since the 1990s, when she started introducing children to recycling, reuse and composting through the Robbinsville Clean Communities and Recycling program. She was the school garden educator for three Princeton schools. Hayes is turning her backyard into a meadow for bees, butterflies, birds and native plants.

Joanne Zuckerman has been a volunteer at BHWP for the past 6 years. As a psychiatric social worker, she specialized in the treatment of young children and developed programs to meet their needs. More recently, therapeutic horticulture has become another arrow in her quiver. She believes strongly that making a link with nature benefits everyone, even little folks.

Program Fee: $10 per child, $5 for each additional, $0 per adult (Members: Enter your code to receive your 20% discount)

Each child must be accompanied by an adult. One adult can attend no more than two children.

Walks are weather dependent; please dress for the weather.