Come out to the Woodlands Trail for a family-friendly, hands-on gardening experience! We will talk about the importance of promoting native flowers in your garden and how to make your garden more healthy, beautiful, and pollinator-friendly. At the workshop, you will become familiar with native Louisiana plants and pollinators in our own garden and […]

Celebrate Earth day by volunteering to help us clean up the trail!  We will be combining our clean-up efforts with a short guided hike to learn about bottomland forests as we pick up litter and pull invasive plants.  The hike will be approximately 1 mile.  Come prepared with closed toe shoes, water and sunscreen.  Gloves […]

Join our Palmetto Pals, Woodlands Conservancy's Professionals Group, for an evening naturalist guided hike on the trails in search of our local owl species. Before our hike we'll enjoy Port Orleans Brewing Company beverages and snacks, while we network with other professionals and talk about future volunteer days, fundraisers and social hours. This fun event will […]

In celebration of International Migratory Bird Day, stop by the Woodlands Trail banding station any time between 7:00 am and 12:00 pm to observe.  You will have the chance to see wild birds up close and learn about how we use banding to monitor bird populations.  The station is located at the picnic table 1/4 […]

If you want to learn to recognize many of the common plants of the coastal Gulf South, the names of those plants, and how to identify other plants, this is the workshop for you! The workshop will be an all-day field trip, where you can see the plants in their natural environment. You will be […]

  If you want to learn to recognize and taste many of the common edible plants of the coastal Gulf South, this is the workshop for you. The workshop will be half-day field trip, where you can see the plants in their natural environment. You will be given BRF’s (Best Recognizing Features) for each plant […]