Connect With Nature this Saturday at the final lecture in our winter series. At 10am on February 25th, UC Berkeley Professor, Gordon Frankie, will present Bees and Flowers: A Love Affair. Come learn about native Northern California bee diversity, flower types native bees prefer, and creating bee habitat gardens. Online preregistration recommended. If you like, you can stay after the lecture to help us tend to the Museum Pollinator Garden!
Volunteer in our Pollinator Garden this Saturday, February 25th from 12pm to 2pm. We will be weeding the native and ornamental gardens around the museum. Also, the Pilkington Creek Clean-Up Crew will be removing invasive plants along the creek, and creating space for the emerging native plants introduced last fall. This is a great opportunity for children, families, and people of all ages to learn about our native California plants.
Dee Bush was a enthusiastic supporter of the Museum, and a Docent for over 20 years. He was a model citizen and community service volunteer. The sale of the Dee Bush estate to benefit the Museum is scheduled for this Saturday, February 25th, from 12noon-6pm at 1023 Escalona. All members were sent an invitation with full details in the mail. The invitation or your Museum membership card gets you into this exclusive members-only sale. A public sale of the remaining items will be held next Saturday. Full details in next week’s Buzzz…
Strong-armed volunteers are welcome to join us February 27th from 10am – 1pm as we take down the Coastal Lagoons exhibit and resurrect the geology exhibit in our center room. We are so thankful for the volunteers who have already offered to help, and a few more hands would make for light work. Please email volunteers@santacruzmuseums.org if you’d like to volunteer for this or any other opportunity with the Museum.
Volunteer Tide Pool Collection is planned for March 5th at 2:30pm. Join us as we return our Tide Pool Tank critters back to the waters and search for new, interesting plants and animals to vacation with us in the Museum for a few months. Meet us at the Hook, where 41st Avenue meets the ocean. We will provide buckets and a few marine biology nerds to help identify what we find. Come learn about these fascinating creatures in their native habitat!
The Connect With Nature series will continue in the spring with the Art of Spring Wildflowers field trip on Saturday, April 28th. More details in the next Buzzz…
And don’t forget to…
Please vote for us in the Good Times Best of Santa Cruz County. While there isn’t a “Best Museum” category, we encourage you to chose us for the “Best Place to Learn New Things”. Thanks for taking the time to vote!
And please vote us “Best Museum” in the the Santa Cruz Weekly Gold Awards.
