Event Calendar

Family fun day at Chattahoochee Nature Center

10th March 2024, Sunday. 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Place: Chattahoochee Nature Center, 9135 Willeo Rd, Roswell, GA 30075

Come join the Emory Herbarium at the Chattahoochee Nature Center to make your own herbarium specimen, extract leaf pigments, and participate in lots of interactive games with kids.

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The Plant Hunter ASF event at the Carter Center

12th March 2024, Tuesday, 5:30PM – 8:45PM

Place: The Carter Center (453 John Lewis Freedom Pkwy NE, Atlanta, GA 30307)

Join leading medical ethnobotanist and explorer, Dr. Cassandra Quave, as she shares the story of her quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants. Blend your own tea and create a DIY herbarium keepsake to take home!

Master garden workshop for Dekalb School teachers

22nd March 2024, Friday, 10:00AM- 12:00PM

Place: Oak Grove Elementary School1857 Oak Grove Rd, Atlanta, GA 30345

Come join the Emory Herbarium at Fernbank Museum and learn all about the collection, mounting, and preservation of herbarium specimens. More information contact Emory herbarium

Herbarium booth at the Atlanta Science Festival Expo

23rd March 2024, Saturday, 10:00AM-4:00PM

Place: Piedmont Park, 10th Street NE Atlanta, GA 30309

Come join the Emory Herbarium at the Atlanta Science Festival to make your own miniature herbarium specimen and participate in lots of interactive games with kids. More info

A Lichen Adventure with Sean Beeching at Arabia Mountain National Heritage

30th March 2024, aturday, 10:00AM-12:00PM

A Lichen Adventure with Sean Beeching at Arabia Mountain National Heritage

Arabia Mountain National Heritage is home to dozens of rare and vibrant species, including some plant species found almost nowhere else on earth. Lichens are pioneers in the ecosystem that thrive in very harsh environmental conditions. The granite outcrop is a perfect place to observe nature’s succession into a forest. Come and join us to see the diversity of lichens with Sean Beeching, Emory’s very own Lichenologist, who contributed to the Georgia Lichen checklist. Register

Spring flower Pilgrimage with Robby Astrov at Arabia Mountain National Heritage

13th, April 2024, Saturday, 10:00AM-12:00PM

Arabia Mountain National Heritage is home for dozens of rare and vibrant species including some plant species found almost nowhere else on earth. Join Emory Herbarium spring flower pilgrimage to see wild spring flowers including rare plants like Diamorpha smallii, that appear once each year. Register

Mushroom walk with Sam Landens at Lullwater Park

20th, April 2024, Saturday, 10:00AM-12:00PM

Join with Sam Landes (Georgia Mushroom club) at the Lullwater nature preserve for a morning of fungi foraging as we explore the diversity of fungi and collect edible fungi on 154 acres of hidden treasure of land. Register