What happens when we stop mowing our lawns? That’s one of the questions we’re trying to answer at Lawn Lab, and we need your help!
We invite you to join us for the second annual Lawn Lab bioblitz. Our goal is to collect data on what plants and animals call Lawn Lab home. If you have experience identifying plants and insects, that’s great. If not, we will give you all the training and tools you’ll need.
Lawn Lab is a long-term habitat restoration experiment and partnership between the Clifton Institute, the Fauquier County Public School system, and Fauquier County’s We Need Bees Committee, which oversees the county’s status as a Bee City USA affiliate. In this project, students from Grace Miller Elementary School and Liberty High School, along with educators and scientists from the Clifton Institute, will study the effects of reducing mowing on the biodiversity of lawns.
Please park in the Grace Miller Elementary School parking lot. The experimental fields are a very short walk (a couple hundred yards) southeast of the parking lot. There will be signs, but you should be able to see our tables and staff from the parking lots and as you drive in along Catlett Road.
Cost: Free!
Age: All ages.
Date and time: subject to change dependent on weather. Please check your email for updates on the morning of the event. If we need to cancel or postpone, we will also post any updates on our Facebook page.
By registering for this event, you are affirming that you have read and agree to our liability release policy.
We are grateful to support from the Chesapeake Bay Trust, the Kortlandt Fund, the Warrenton Garden Club, and individual donors for Lawn Lab.