Free Nature Quest Events
Upcoming Events
Women in STEM Career Day: Explore Your Future With Mattel + Roblox
Join us for an inspiring afternoon of creativity, coding, and career exploration at the Women in STEM Career Day Series!
Scrappy Mending 101 With Julian Rich
Get ready to celebrate Earth Day's Birthday during the month of April with this sustainable earth-friendly program!
Women in STEM Career Day: Explore Your Future With Mattel + Roblox
Join us for an inspiring afternoon of creativity, coding, and career exploration at the Women in STEM Career Day Series!
The Butterfly Effect: Saving Our Planet Together
Join us for an exciting, interactive adventure inspired by the real-life butterfly migration from Canada to Mexico! Families will follow the brave butterflies as they face environmental challenges—and discover how we can help protect them and our planet.
Everything Earth: The Bug Gals
Please join us in the Community Room as we celebrate Everything Earth with The Bug Gals. The Bug Gals will host an interactive bug meet-and-greet, sharing facts about various insects and arachnids while presenting live specimens. Audience members will be able to hold or pet some of their bugs.
Wildflower Seed Bombs
Get your hands dirty in celebration of Everything Earth Month and the City Nature Challenge 2026, an international effort to document nature in cities.
Kombucha & Other Homemade Drinks
Join Certified Food Preservation Instructor Brie Wakeland Muszynski for a presentation on the science of fermentation and how to safely make kombucha and other fermented sodas at home. The presentation includes tasting samples, and a Kombucha zine.
Nature Journaling Walk
Organic Home Gardening for Kids
Special guests from Growing Together Education will teach us how to compost, save seeds, and enjoy a year-round harvest. Plus, we'll get a hands-on introduction to beneficial insects for the garden!
Organic Home Gardening For Kids
Come celebrate Everything Earth Month with us! This interactive class with Growing Together Education will teach kids how to grow herbs, vegetables, and flowers and promote biodiversity through organic practices.
Upcycled Crafting
Don't throw it away. Make something fun with recycled materials. Gather up your clean used plastic, and we will sort it into recyclable and non-recyclable, and then create art with the materials that would have gone into a landfill.
Tiny Terrariums: Earth Day Craft for Tweens and Teens
Create your own mini-greenhouse in a jar, with a live plant, moss, soil, and decorations. Nurture a young plant by giving it a home, while learning the science of plant respiration and growth. Terrarium supplies are provided but limited, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Game Time for Science: Stall Catchers Challenge
Join a hands-on Stall Catchers game to support Alzheimer’s research. Meet the project scientist, learn how to play, and team up with participants nationwide to help scientists analyze data faster.
Game Time for Science: Join the Stall Catchers Challenge
Join a hands-on Stall Catchers game to support Alzheimer’s research. Meet the project scientist, learn how to play, and team up with participants nationwide to help scientists analyze data faster.
Game Time for Science: Join the Stall Catchers Challenge
Join a hands-on Stall Catchers game to support Alzheimer’s research. Meet the project scientist, learn how to play, and team up with participants nationwide to help scientists analyze data faster.
Lifestyles of the Slimy and Squishy
Celebrate Citizen Science and Earth Month with us by experiencing marine life up close. We will feature live tidepool animals, including sea stars, sea urchins, hermit crabs, mussels, sea slugs, sea anemones, and keyhole limpets.
Upcycling Seedlings and Beyond With Compostable LA
Starting your own veggies, herbs, or flowers doesn't have to be expensive. Join this workshop to discover creative ways to upcycle everyday materials into seedling pots to start your next garden.
Anyone Can Be and Astronomer: Befriending the Night Sky
Astronomy is for everyone. This program features an engaging PowerPoint presentation on the cultural art of stargazing and three backyard viewing targets in the Los Angeles night sky, followed by a live telescope viewing of the sun.
Kelp Forests
Have fun under the sea with special guests PS Science. Celebrate Everything Earth with seaweed crafts, treats and more.
Organic Home Gardening for Kids
Celebrate Earth Month with us! Join Growing Together Education for an afternoon of hands-on learning for Organic Home Gardening. We will learn the natural ways to grow plants at home and release ladybugs into the wild.
DIY Seed Bombs: Guerilla Gardening for Tweens and Teens with Wendy McPherson
Celebrate Earth Day with a hands-on seed-bomb-making program featuring expert gardener Wendy McPherson. Participants will learn about green movements, sustainability, and climate change, and make their own clay and compost seed bombs filled with California native wildflower seeds.
Let's Get in a Pickle Together
Join our Neighborhood Science Programs to learn how to make pickles.
Let's Get in a Pickle
Join local chef Jess Wang to prepare your own jar of pickles. Participants will learn fundamental pickling and food preservation techniques.
Sew Your Own Scrunchie
Our sewing club is back with another fabulous project. Your instructor will guide you in the creation of a custom scrunchie made by upcycling fabric.
Organic Home Gardening
Join Growing Together Education for an afternoon of hands-on learning for Organic Home Gardening. We will explore the wild world of seeds, plants, soil and insects as you learn natural and healthy ways to grow plants at home.
Soil Science, It's Not Just Dirt
Celebrate Everything Earth Month by joining us for hands-on activities that explore what soil is, why plants need it, and how it can help keep our water clean with a Growing Great garden educator.
Grow, Cook, Eat and Sell
Join us for an informative program about the Cottage Food Industry in Los Angeles. You'll learn about organic gardening, how to sell your products at farmers' markets and festivals, and how to cook with locally sourced ingredients.