Join the Urban Park Rangers to learn how to create your own natural dyes! Use these dyes to add some color to your life. Dyes will be made in advance by the rangers. Attendees are encouraged to bring clothes they would like to try and dye.
Location: West 218th Street and Indian Road
Registration not required.
Join NYC Parks and Macaulay Honors College to celebrate iNat Together Week, for an evening bioblitz at Inwood Hill Park, which is part of the Old-Growth Forest Network and accessible via subway. Tina Cuevas, natural areas outreach coordinator at NYC Parks, will discuss restoration activities within NYC Parks and how monitoring plays a large part in how Parks works within our city’s natural areas and beyond. Kelly O’Donnell, lead NYC organizer for City Nature Challenge & director of Science Forward at Macaulay Honors College, will contextualize the data that iNaturalist captures and becomes part of a larger global dataset that helps scientists with their research all over the globe. Participants will learn how to use the iNaturalist app to take data observations of local plants and wildlife. They will be able to learn how to lead their own bioblitzes and engage with the iNaturalist community. Come dressed in sturdy boots or shoes, long sleeves, long pants, and clothing that can get dirty (since we might crouch down on the ground to look at plants).
Meeting Location: Payson Playground in Inwood Hill Park
Dyckman Street and Payson Avenue
Free — Registration is required on the NYC Parks Stewardship page
Join NYRP for a free community celebration of North America’s largest native fruit: the beloved pawpaw and native trees
Featuring a pawpaw sapling giveaway, park tours, music, community partners, participant-powered smoothies made with our bike blender, and a workshop and talk about pawpaw propagation.
11:00 AM – Pawpaw propagation workshop led by the “Pawpaw King of Brooklyn,” Reza Farzan → no seats available f, but you can still sign up for the waitlist
12:00–4:00 PM – Tabling, including bike blender smoothies (until they run out)
1:00–3:00 PM – Free pawpaw tree giveaway — Advance registration is full, but at 2 PM, trees will be available for walk-up recipients on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last. Please arrive around 1pm to join the waitlist.
2:00 PM – Pawpaw presentation from permaculture expert and regional authority Dale Hendricks
Plus music and community partner activities!
The event will be open to the public, with registration encouraged.
Join the Urban Park Rangers for a focused walk through Inwood Hill Park to explore how climate change is affecting local plants and wildlife. Learn how shifting temperatures and extreme weather influence the insects, trees, birds, and mammals we see every day, and discover the changes already underway in this unique urban forest.
Location: West 218th Street and Indian Road in Inwood Hill Park
Great Trees of Inwood Hill Park
Join the Urban Park Rangers to celebrate City of Forest Day on a walk-through Manhattan’s oldest growth forest! Learn about the benefits trees provide to our urban environment as we enjoy the shade and identify many of our native trees.
Location: West 218th Street and Indian Road
