Explore practices that reconnect the body to the calming rhythms of nature and support greater mind-body connection in this grounding session with UrbanYoga Foundation.

Join us for the closing celebration of Chloe Seibert’s Twin Urns, a 6-months long public art project culminating in a fall equinox ceremony on Sunday, September 20 at 5pm.

Help keep Queens Botanical Garden's rain gardens clean, green, and growing! Join NYC DEP's Green Infrastructure team, in partnership with QBG, for an engaging, educational event where you will learn gardening basics and learn how to become a steward for the rain gardens in your neighborhood.  Learn more and register here.

Join the Metoac Indigenous Collective for a tour led by Haley Scott (Unkechaug) and Tecumseh Ceaser (Matinecock/Montaukett/Unkechaug) and for a morning Native Bird Nature walk at Queens Botanical Garden, highlighting Long Island’s Indigenous history, native birds and plants, and their cultural significance. Haley Scott (she/her) is a BIPOC birder and guide for NYC Bird Alliance and Feminist Bird Club. She […]

Commemorate Indigenous Peoples Day by co-creating a wampum belt with Matinecock wampum artist Tecumseh Ceasar!  Visitors will help thread wampum beads into a simple design on this belt, which will be used as an educational tool within local indigenous communities upon completion. Visitors will also learn about local native culture, history, and customs.   RSVP Here.

Connect and flow through this practice of mindful movements through breath and sound to still the mind and liberate the body. The People’s Practice™ by UrbanYoga is an integration of Kemetic and Hatha with Tao healing arts. These ancient methods employ breath, sound and movement to still the mind and liberate the body. Connect and flow through this practice of […]

Join Queens Botanical Garden, NYC Emergency Management, and Guardians of Flushing Bay for a fun, family-friendly day focused on emergency preparedness, climate resilience, and keeping our communities safe.

Enjoy a free Queens Arts Fund–supported concert by The Brass Tree. Blending brass, percussion, jazz and electronics into evolving soundscapes.

Join us for a Compost Giveback event at Queens Botanical Garden! The Compost team at QBG is excited to be distributing bags of the high quality compost we make on site to the community.

Discover the Garden in fall with our Horticulture Director, Andi Pettis. Stroll through its diverse landscapes and discover autumn plants that bring rich, warm colors and life to our gardens as summer flowers fade.

Join Queens Botanical Garden for the opening of "Supremely Unequivocal in Our Commitment to this Moment of Being," an interactive exhibition by Cameron Russell and Mei Tao, created in collaboration with sixty-one young farmer-artists from Harlem Grown.

Join Queens Botanical Garden's Beekeeper Helen Colhoun to learn about bees and see how she harvests and bottles the Garden's honey! This will be an interactive workshop with opportunities to ask questions, try using honey harvesting tools, and, of course, to taste the honey. All participants will go home with a bottle of honey from the event. $30 non-members / […]

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky afternoon at Queens Botanical Garden! Little ones can show off their costumes, stroll through the trick-or-treat trail, make Halloween crafts, see and learn about our spooky plants, walk with Griot Darlene Deloris for Ankhlave Anansi’s Wisdom of the World Tour, and catch lively performances. There will be a special opportunity to meet The Cat in […]

Have old computer parts, textiles, or paint lying around? Bring them to our e-waste collection day, hosted in partnership with the Lower East Side Ecology Center.

Bring your pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns, and gourds for a smashing good time!

Connect and flow through this practice of mindful movements through breath and sound to still the mind and liberate the body.

In this special series with NYC Bird Alliance (formerly NYC Audubon), participants will learn to spot and identify birds while exploring how the Garden provides important resources for them, including water, shelter, native plants, and insects to eat.