Spring Program Highlights
More Ticks in More Places
Learn about tick ecology and how you can protect yourself. Register »
Nature Photography Workshop
Improve your photographs of the natural world. Register »
Go Botany
Learn to use the new Go Botany educational web tool. Register »
Chasing Venus
Explore the first collaborative race to measure the heavens. Register »
Adult Education
Attend a Lecture or Take a Class
May classes aim to help you enjoy and learn in the great outdoors. Our lecture by Andrea Wulf at the end of the month will prime you for the coming transit of Venus, the last time in your lifetime to see this planetary event. In her new book, Chasing Venus, Andrea tells the extraordinary story of the first global scientific collaboration—set amid warring armies, hurricanes, scientific endeavors, and personal tragedy—to calculate the distance between the planets in our solar system.
See a complete list of our programs and give one a try. But don’t delay; many of our programs fill to capacity.
Instructor Spotlight
Andrea Wulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She currently lives in Britain, where she trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art. She is the author of The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession and the co-author of This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History. Her book, Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation, was published to great acclaim in spring 2011 and was praised on the New York Times Best Seller List as ‘illuminating and engrossing’. Her most recent book, Chasing Venus, is published in eight countries in conjunction with the last transit of Venus in this century. Andrea has written for The New York Times, the LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, and other publications. Read a review in The Boston Globe.