Virtual Lunchtime Tour: September in the Garden

Virtual Webinar

Take your lunch break virtually by exploring the gardens in September with Assistant Garden Supervisor Emily Reuther.  Join us on this virtual tour on our YouTube page. 

Nature’s Narratives: Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Virtual Webinar

Join fellow garden enthusiasts and book lovers as they discuss books about plants, nature, and the environment. “Nature’s Narratives” is a book discussion group sponsored by the Scott Arboretum where readers come together to discuss a book once a month and share in their reading experience. Written...

Free

Mandie’s Nature Nook

Trotter Tent 500 College Ave., Swarthmore, PA

Calling all little nature explorers! Join Youth, Family, and Diversity Programs Coordinator Mandie Curtis Banks and Mari, her special caterpillar friend, for mornings full of stories, singing, dancing, and playing as we dig into nature. This in-person series is a free program for babies –...

Free

Virtual Gentle Flow Yoga in the Garden

Virtual Webinar

Nature and yoga are a perfect match! Combine the healing power of nature and the mindful practice of yoga by joining local yoga teacher and Scott Arboretum Youth, Family, and Diversity Programs Coordinator Mandie Curtis Banks for a gentle slow flow yoga class. You can...

Free for members

Mandie’s Nature Nook

Trotter Tent 500 College Ave., Swarthmore, PA

Calling all little nature explorers! Join Youth, Family, and Diversity Programs Coordinator Mandie Curtis Banks and Mari, her special caterpillar friend, for mornings full of stories, singing, dancing, and playing as we dig into nature. This in-person series is a free program for babies –...

Free

Gardens and Tonic: Intro to Permaculture: Ecological Design for Regenerative Living

Virtual Webinar

Join Ryan Rising to learn about Permaculture Design, the process of determining and implementing living systems that provide for human needs and simultaneously regenerate ecosystem health and biodiversity. This design science mimics patterns and processes found in natural systems to place humans back into a...

FREE

Gentle Flow Yoga in the Garden

Wister Center - Gillespie Room 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA

Nature and yoga are a perfect match! Combine the healing power of nature and the mindful practice of yoga by joining local yoga teacher and Scott Arboretum Youth, Family, and Diversity Programs Coordinator Mandie Curtis Banks, in-person, for a gentle slow flow yoga class in...

Free for members

Autumn Equinox Celebration

Come to the Scott Arboretum to wander the gardens, sprawl out on the Cherry Border lawn for a picnic, play a lawn game with the family, make a nature related craft, have a glass of locally made beer or cider and some comfort food, all...

Mandie’s Nature Nook

Trotter Tent 500 College Ave., Swarthmore, PA

Calling all little nature explorers! Join Youth, Family, and Diversity Programs Coordinator Mandie Curtis Banks and Mari, her special caterpillar friend, for mornings full of stories, singing, dancing, and playing as we dig into nature. This in-person series is a free program for babies –...

Free

Gardens and Tonic: Where Food Grows on Water: Indigenous Stewardship of Wild Rice

Virtual Webinar

Join Vern DeFoe and Heather Leach for an exploration of the cultural relevance of manoomin through an ethnobotanical conversation and cooking demonstration by NĀTIFS, an organization leading the way in re-valorizing Native foodways through Indigenous food education and access. Manoomin, as wild rice is called...

FREE