Join QBG’s Farm staff for an engaging, educational event where you will learn gardening basics and work hands-on with plants.

Learn more about Queens and the role of plants in its history. Enjoy a spring garden walk!

Join the QBG Compost Staff for our weekly on-site compost build and learn about processing community food scraps into nutrient-rich compost. Register here

Join QBG’s Farm staff for an engaging, educational event where you will learn gardening basics and work hands-on with plants.

Help keep Queens Botanical Garden clean, green, and growing! Join QBG’s horticulture staff for an engaging, educational event where you will learn gardening basics and work hands-on with plants.

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.

Celebrate the arrival of spring with an introductory watercolor class using the new season's blooms as inspiration!

Join the QBG Compost Staff for our weekly on-site compost build and learn about processing community food scraps into nutrient rich compost. Register here

Join QBG's Farm staff for an engaging, educational event where you will learn gardening basics and work hands-on with plants.

Spot and identify local and migratory birds, and learn how Queens Botanical Garden provides important resources for wildlife.

Join our beekeeper, Helen, to learn more about our honeybees and other bees that frequent our garden collections! See demonstrations of beekeeping.

Design your own free-form tapestry on a loom using natural fibers in this step by step beginners weaving workshop!

Join the QBG Compost Staff to tour and care for our compost demo site by weeding, mulching, planting, applying compost and gardening.

Help prepare the QBG Farm to grow produce that we distribute to food pantries in supporting our communities with food relief.

Learn about the basics of the composting process that hold true everywhere from your backyard to a community garden.

Join the QBG compost team for a workshop on Soil Health and Science as part of the Master Composter Program.

Learn how to prepare your garden beds for a successful growing season in this hands-on workshop, led by our Farm team.

Join the QBG Compost Staff for our weekly on-site compost build and learn about processing community food scraps into nutrient rich compost.   Register here

Join our Horticulture Director, Andi Pettis, for a tour of the Garden during one of its most vibrant seasons.

Join our beekeeper, Helen, to learn more about our honeybees and other bees that frequent our garden collections! See demonstrations of beekeeping.

在本次工作坊中，参与者将学习使用简单的织布木框编织小挂毯。课程将介绍多种天然纤维材料，包括羊毛、棉、亚麻、纸线等。参与者会接触到不同的基础编织技巧，创作一件小型挂毯作品，设计抽象图案或者编织自由图形。

Come sing and dance with Musiquita, a playful musical performance in Spanish and English appropriate for all ages.

Join Shane Weeks (Shinnecock) and Tecumseh Ceaser (Matinecock/Montaukett/Unkechaug) for a tour through the grounds of the Garden

Join us for instrument making, a parade, and a performance with Bash the Trash.

Enjoy a live concert highlighting the musical traditions across the Americas.

This special event features a guided “drop in and draw” mushroom drawing session, a "discovery" display of mushrooms common in Asian cuisine and medicine, and a one-hour mini-foray (walk) around the garden and neighborhood to discover the fungi hidden in plain sight in our everyday urban spaces.

Join us for an opening reception for our next gallery show, The Color of Sunlight.

Stop by the terrace and pick up some flower, vegetable, and herb seedlings for your garden! Ask our Farm team which crops will work best in your space — indoor or outdoor, large or small.

Help keep Queens Botanical Garden clean, green, and growing at this volunteer session with our horticulture staff!

Spot and identify local and migratory birds, and learn how Queens Botanical Garden provides important resources for wildlife — like water, shelter, and insects to eat.

Join the QBG compost team for a workshop on how compost and other maintenance practices impact soil health.

This course will be a workshop and discussion of composting systems, tools, and scales, focusing on NYC. Whether you have decades of composting experience or none at all, everyone is welcome and encouraged to join this free 2-hour course.

Learn how to successfully plant, trellis and grow your vegetables this season at theis hands-on workshop led by our Farm team.

Join Bronx-born Boricua and Herbalist Maggie Rivera in the Garden for a Puerto Rican Herbalism Plant Walk.

Together, we will explore the medicines of the Earth Mother (known to Boricuas and Tainos as Atabey). Participants will explore the garden to learn about plants used in Puerto Rican and Caribbean cuisine and medicine.

Come and explore the QBG Farm and learn about everything we are growing at our Farm Open Hours.