Tag Archive for: Bioblitz

Lawn Lab Bioblitz

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.

 

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Parks for Pollinators Bioblitz

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Come along while we partner with the Fauquier County Department of Parks and Recreation to participate in the Parks for Pollinators Bioblitz! 

We’ll explore Riverside Preserve with the goal of documenting as many different kinds of butterflies and bees as possible! This event is part of the Fauquier County Bee City USA initiative to learn about and conserve pollinators in our county. All levels of naturalists are welcome!

Please note that this program meets at Riverside Preserve, NOT at the Clifton Institute. The address is 8150 Leeds Manor Rd, Marshall, VA 20115. We will meet by the environmental education shed / port-a-potty. You can park on the lawn near the building or you can drive all the way to the lot at the bottom of the hill and walk back up.

Cost: Free!

Age: Adults and children accompanied by an adult.

Weather policy: Rain or shine except in case of extreme weather (e.g. thunderstorm or significant snow fall). Please check your email for updates on the morning of the event.

COVID-19 Information: This program will be entirely outdoors (an outside porta potty will be available). Please do not attend if you are experiencing or have experienced in the last two weeks any symptoms associated with COVID-19 (fever, cough, shortness of breath, etc.).

Registration is REQUIRED.

Cancellation policy: If you register and can no longer attend this event, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can open your spot to someone else.

By registering for this event, you are affirming that you have read and agree to our liability release policy.

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