June 17-23 is pollinator week! Come celebrate our pollinating friends at Herring Run Nursery, see our new pollinator garden, and learn what you can do to welcome these useful friends into your own yard. The nursery will be open 9-4 for shopping, with a special pollinator garden walk-and-talk at 10am. Watermelon and lemonade will be...
Join Blue Water Baltimore for a morning full of informative and hands-on activities! Starting in Carroll Watkins park and ending in Gwynn Oak park, participants will learn about of the relationship between stormwater runoff, urban infrastructure, and our local, natural spaces. This event includes an informal "walk-&-talk", a trash clean-up, and a hunt for benthic...
Join Blue Water Baltimore for a guided walking tour of artist Bruce Willen's Ghost Rivers art project (https://ghostrivers.com/) and one of Baltimore’s lost waterways. This walk will follow the hidden path of the Sumwalt Run, a buried creek which now flows through underground culverts deep beneath the streets of Baltimore. Participants will visit nine of...
The rocks, roots, and riffles of our local Baltimore rivers are rife with benthic macroinvertebrate life, better known as water bugs! These tiny creatures are a big indicator of waterway health. Join Blue Water Baltimore staff to explore a local stream, search for and identify benthic macroinvertebrates, and learn about types of pollution that can...
