Piedmont Wildlife Center Summer Solstice Celebration - Leigh Farm Park in Durham - Sunday, 6/20/21 3pm-7pm

Hi Friends!

Piedmont Wildlife Center is excited to be hosting a Summer Solstice Celebration this coming Sunday, 6/20/21 from 3:00-7:00pm at Leigh Farm Park in Durham, NC. This event is FREE with a suggested donation of $7 to help support camp scholarships, nature education and our ambassador animals. Registration and masks are required.

Join the PWC community as we celebrate the 2021 summer solstice! Contribute to and walk our summer labyrinths, align your spirit with nature through sun salutations and reflect on the past, present and future around the fire.  

Piedmont Wildlife Center is committed to connecting people and nature through a community-oriented approach. We are so excited to be able to host a safe, in-person program for our community again! Feel free to call our office at 919-489-0900 or email us at admin@piedmontwildlifecenter.org with any questions.

Hope to see you there! 

Noelle Dalhouse

Summer Nature Outdoor Programs in Price Park (Kathleen Clay Library)

Join us for these Summer Nature Outdoor Programs in Price Park (Kathleen Clay Library)

Summer Programs 2021

Outdoor Adventurers of Color Series
Outdoor Adventurers of Color is a monthly series exploring opportunities for outdoor recreation, socialization, and engagement.

Saturday, June 19, 9:30 – 11:00 am
Outdoor Adventurers of Color: Birding
Are you interested in birding, want to make new friends, and discover birds in our area. Bring a water bottle and enjoy some morning snacks under the picnic shelter in Price Park while we share some birding tips. Then enjoy a birding stroll through the park. If you don’t have binoculars, we will have some to borrow. Registration is required for this event: melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

Saturday, July 31, 9:30 – 11:00 am
Outdoor Adventurers of Color: Nature Photography
Capturing pictures of wildlife and plants can present its own challenges with issues of lighting, movement, and composition. Meet other photography enthusiasts while learning from local experts. Bring your camera or smart phone and we’ll provide some morning snacks. Registration is required for this event: melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

Monday, August 16, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Outdoor Adventurers of Color: Trail Walking
Enjoy an evening trail walk in Price Park. Bring your water bottle and we’ll provide a trail snack and information about other local trails. Meet under the picnic shelter in park. Registration is required for this event: melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

Environmental Education Workshops

Birding Stroll
Saturday, June 12, 9:30 – 11:00 am
Join Matt Wangerin from the Piedmont Bird Club and discover a variety of bird species walking through different habitats in Price Park. Matt will share how to use Merlin Bird ID and eBird to help your bird identification skills. Earn NC Environmental Education Certification credit. Registration required: e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

Growing Up WILD Hybrid Workshop
Wednesday, July 21, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Growing Up WILD is an early childhood curriculum which shares activities to build a child’s sense of wonder and exploration of nature. CC King, Educator with the NC Wildlife Resources Commission will lead this workshop for teachers, parents, and youth leaders. The workshop includes pre-assignments. Participants can earn credit towards the NC Environmental Education Certification and CEUs. To receive a zoom invite for this workshop, e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov 

Botanical Drawing Outdoors
Thursday, August 5, 10 – 11 am
Bring your sketch pad, pencils, and a chair and learn how to incorporate form, color and the details of plant species in your art. Local artist and environmental educator from Greensboro Parks, Alma Stott will guide your compositions while we draw outside using plant species in Price Park as guides. Registration is required for this event: e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

Green Living Series

How to Handle Your Garden Bugs
June 24, 10 – 11:30 am
Kathleen Clay Library, 1420 Price Park Rd. Greensboro
Come see a Reading Garden demonstration with Quina Weber-Shirk, Community and School Gardens Agent with NC Cooperative Extension Guilford County Center. 
Quina will show tips on controlling garden pests that impact your vegetables, herbs and edible flowers using Integrated Pest Management (IPM).
Discover how to identify pest damage and bring beneficial bugs to benefit your plants.
Registration is required for this event: melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov 

Cook Vegan with Us
July 14, 7:30 – 8:30 pm
Discover some vegan tips while cooking with two Piedmont Area Vegan Educators. Cynteah Giddings is a local vegan recipe creator, personal chef, and food blogger based in Greensboro.  Her recipe will have a Caribbean and Afro-Cuban flavor.  Sena Crutchley, UNCG professor and member of UNCG’s Sustainability Council will share another flavorful recipe. We will provide the recipes and you can cook with us through a zoom demonstration. E-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov  for a list of ingredients and the zoom registration link.

Go Outside with the Library

Watercolor Painting Outdoors
Thursday, June 10,  10 – 11:30 am
Adults join us for a watercolor painting class on the lawn at the Kathleen Clay Library. Painter, Cyndy Wolfe, will demonstrate water color painting techniques as we paint Price Park scenery. Bring your paint brushes, canvas and paint, and a chair. Registration is required for this event: e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

Wildlife Observation Outdoors
July 12, 7 – 8 pm
Mary Frances Rosa, environmental educator with REI will show outdoor techniques in Price Park to enhance your wildlife observation in the summer. Dress for trail walking and we will provide a small journal for note taking. Registration is required for this even: e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

Summer Nights and Fireflies
Monday, August 2  7:00 – 8:00 pm
Join us for an evening walk in Price Park.  We will provide short poems and small journals to help guide some reflection along your stroll. Registration is required for this event: e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

Green Read Series

The Home Place
Friday, June 25, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Join for a discussion of the book, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature. Ornithology, J. Drew Lanham shares his love of land growing up in Edgefield County, SC. He connects issues of nature, identity and belonging in this memoir. Pick up a copy of the selection at the Kathleen Clay Library. Bring a lawn chair and join us for a discussion in the park. The discussion will also be available via zoom. Registration is required for this event: e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

World of Wonders
Friday, July 23, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Join for a discussion of the book, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments. Enjoy this beautifully illustrated nature essay collection which shares the wonders of the natural world.  Pick up a copy of the selection at the Kathleen Clay Library. Bring a lawn chair and join us for a discussion in the park. The discussion will also be available via zoom. Registration is required for this event: e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

What’s Wrong with Appalachia
Friday, August 20, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Join for a discussion of the book, What’s Wrong with Appalachia? Pick up a copy of the selection at the Kathleen Clay Library. Bring a lawn chair and join us for a discussion in the park. Registration is required for this event: e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

Family Program

ecoEXPLORE: Herpetology
Wednesday, June 9, 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Families join us on the lawn at the Kathleen Clay Library for a fun program about frogs. See some live frogs and encounter froggy fun with help from Parks and Recreation educator, Jennifer Phelps. Also learn how to identify frog calls with NC Wildlife Resources Educator, CC King. Discover how you can participate in the citizen science program, ecoEXPLORE,earn badges and prizes, and meet and help scientists. Earn a herpetology badge see how frogs depend on our creeks. This program is sponsored by the NC Arboretum in Asheville and the Greensboro Science Center. Registration required for the event: e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

 

 

Melanie Buckingham, Environmental Resources Librarian

Kathleen Clay Library

1420 Price Park Rd.

Greensboro, NC 27410
336-373-2923

melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

Catherine Coleman Flowers lecture May 20, 12-1pm, online

On May 20, 12-1 PM, Catherine Coleman Flowers will present research related to her recent book, Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret. A MacArthur Genius Fellow and environmental justice advocate, Flowers works to expose how inadequate disposal systems for human waste not only subject many Americans to disgusting living conditions that have resulted in the reappearance of diseases and parasites, but also work to keep them poor and criminalize poverty by subjecting them to fines, arrests, and even imprisonment. 

The Zoom details for the lecture may be found here. Advance registration is required. For those interested, copies of Waste may be purchased at a significant discount at the Gothic Bookstore by telephoning 919-684-3986.  

(Shared by Alexis Clark, PhD, Community Resource Coordinator, Eviction Diversion Program, Legal Aid of NC)

Earth Month Challenge April 2021

Sponsored by the Greensboro Public Library

Join a month long adventure in April to become more connected to the Earth 

and live sustainably.

How to Participate:
1. To receive an Earth Challenge Guide, e-mail 

    melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

2. Complete two challenges in each group, record it on the Challenge Card

3. E-mail the card by May 7 to 

    melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

Participants will be entered in a drawing for a gift basket of 

Earth-friendly goodies.

 

 

Melanie Buckingham, Environmental Resources Librarian

Kathleen Clay Library

1420 Price Park Rd.

Greensboro, NC 27410
336-373-2923

melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

 

Attachments area

Dispose of Medications at the UNCG Police Station

 

Spring Nature Programs at the Kathleen Clay Edwards Library

 

Outdoor Adventurers of Color Series
Outdoor Adventurers of Color is a monthly series exploring opportunities for outdoor recreation, socialization, and engagement.

Outdoor Adventurers of Color: Historical Barriers
Monday, March 15,  7:30 – 8:30 pm
Diquan Edmonds with the Triangle Land Conservancy will demonstrate his research into the history and barriers to outdoor experiences for African Americans. He also will provide suggestions on how to make the outdoors more equitable and inclusive. Join us for this zoom conversation. To receive a zoom invitation, please email melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

Outdoor Adventures of Color: Outdoor Afro
Monday, April 12,  7:30 - 8:30 pm
Ranita Anderson, Outdoor Afro Raleigh-Durham Leader, will share about how she developed a love for outdoor exploration leading her to pursue leadership roles in helping Black people find joy in nature. She will also highlight goals around supporting Black children and families in outdoor learning and recreation. To receive a zoom invitation, please email melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

Environmental Education Workshops
Welcome Wildlife in Your Yard
Wednesday, March 10, 7:30 – 8:30 pm
Would you like to turn your yard into a conservation corridor? Triad Native Plant Society member, Judy West will share wildlife habitat techniques from Doug Tallamy’s books: Bringing Nature Home and Nature’s Best Hope. ​To receive a zoom registration, e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov .

Flying WILD
Thursday, April 22, 3 – 5 pm
Kathleen Clay Branch
NC Wildlife Resources Education Specialist, CC King will lead a zoom workshop for educators and youth leaders to teach youth about bird identification, habitats, behaviors, and migration. Earn CEUs and Credit towards the NC Environmental Education Certification by completing pre and post activities. E-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov for the zoom registration.


Green Living Series
Cooking Vegan
Wednesday, March 17, 7:30 – 8:30 pm
Put your chef’s hat on and follow along in a zoom demonstration of vegan cooking. Piedmont Area Vegan Educators will walk you through the steps of at least one simple vegan recipe. E-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov for a list of ingredients and the zoom registration link.

Get Outdoors
Letterboxing
Monday, March 1, 7:30 – 8:30 pm
Adults and families can discover adventure, the outdoors, and hidden treasure through the hobby of letterboxing. Uncover letterboxes in Price Park and learn how to find them around the country. To receive a zoom invite for this program, e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

Trail Running
April 7, 7:30 – 8:30 pm
Adults and families explore trail running as a way to stay fit, get outdoors, and see nature. Not sure how and where to start? Join us for a zoom discussion of trail running success with tips about terrain, possible trails and types of trail shoes. To receive a zoom invite for this program, e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

Green Reads Series
The Dirty Life:
Friday, March 26,  12:00 - 1:00 pm
Join for a zoom discussion of the book, The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love. Pick up a copy of the selection at the Kathleen Clay Branch. To receive a zoom invite for this Green Reads book discussion, e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

Nature Poetry
Friday, April 23, 12 – 1 pm
Green Reads Book Club invites adults for a zoom discussion of nature poetry. Use your favorite nature poetry book or choose from a nature poetry selection available from the Kathleen Clay Branch. E-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov for a zoom registration link and to reserve a poetry book.  

Louise Erdrich Selections
Friday, May 14 , 12 – 1pm
Green Reads Book Club invites adults for a zoom discussion of the author, Louise Erdrich, a writer of novels and poetry featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a federally recognized tribe of the Anishinaabe. Pick up a copy of a Louise Erdrich selection at the branch prior to the program. E-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

for a zoom registration link.

 

 

Melanie Buckingham, Environmental Resources Librarian

Kathleen Clay Library

1420 Price Park Rd.

Greensboro, NC 27410
336-373-2923

melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov

 

Climate Justice - UNCG Sustainability Lecture & Dialogue Series - Friday, February 12th 12pm-1pm

 

Climate Justice Sponsored by the UNCG Sustainability Council and the Office of Sustainability, the Sustainability Lecture and Dialogue Series features UNCG researchers addressing issues integral to building thriving communities.  Dr. Steve Kroll-Smith joined the UNCG Sociology Department in 2001. His last book, Recovering Inequality, Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster was named Rice University / Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s “Favorite Book” in 2018. The title of Dr. Kroll-Smith's talk is The Long Goodbye: Adapting to a Disappearing Ancestral Island, The Story of Isle de Jean Charles. Dr. Meredith Powers and Ms. LeeCee Jones will discuss their collaborations on climate justice literacy, including their recent endeavors writing children’s books together, starting with one about climate justice, and their work to launch the nonprofit, called the “Implementing Diverse Equitable Accessible Literacy (IDEAL) League”. The IDEAL League’s mission is to provide equitable access to inclusive literacy materials and educational activities that affirm, advocate for, and empower youth. The event will take place via Zoom. Registration is required by 11a.m. on Friday, February 12. REGISTER HERE