Tarflower Chapter

Orange County, Florida

Backyard Biodiversity Day

A CELEBRATION OF FLORIDA’S UNIQUE FLORA & FAUNA

Presented by the Florida Native Plant Society to benefit habitat restoration projects at Mead Botanical Garden

Saturday, October 19, 2024 - 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Location: Mead Botanical Garden 1300 S. Denning Drive, Winter Park, FL 32789

Parking at Mead Botanical Gardening is free but limited. If parking is full, please park legally on nearby streets. Even better, walk, bike or carpool!

 

FREE, family-friendly event features:

  • Informative presentations about creating biodiverse backyard habitats with native plants which help support bees & native wildlife
  • Interpretive hikes focusing on pollinator insects, edible plants, herpetology, gopher tortoises and the ongoing sandhill habitat restoration project
  • Native plant & wildflower seed sale
  • Environmentally conscious exhibitors and vendors
  • Kids Activities
  • Food trucks
  • Live Music

For more information about exhibiting or sponsorship, please email bbd.director@fnps.org

We’re looking for volunteers. There are opportunities to help with various levels of commitment. Please send an email to bbd.director@fnps.org and let us know what your passions, talents and availability are so we can make the most of them!

 

Exhibitors and Vendors include:

UF/IFAS Extension Orange County    • Florida Right to Clean Water
• O-Town Compost    • Earth Angel Potter
• Limpkin Nation [nature based jewelry]    • Orange Audubon Society
• Orange County Environmental Protection Division    • Keep Winter Park Beautiful
• Oakland Nature Preserve    • Orlando Wetlands Park
• Mead Botanical Garden    • Friends of the Wekiva
• Florida School of Holistic Living    • Regenerative Designs
• Central Florida Sierra Club    • Paintings by Chonody
• Back to Nature Wildlife Refuge    • Friends of Split Oak
• Seminole County Natural Lands    • St. John's River Water Management District
• Save the Manatee Club    • UCF Arboretum
• Ten Thousand Villages Winter Park    • Sierra Club of Central Florida
• League of Women Voters    • Florida Trail Association
• Winter Park Urban Forestry    • Wild Birds Unlimited
• Wild Florida Photo    • Florida Snakes & Honey

 

FOOD:  Uncle Jeeb's   Blessed Bean   Island Life Cuisine   Rosarios Kitchen

 

HIKES AND SPEAKERS SCHEDULE

SITE MAP

ENTERTAINMENT (live band)     PLANT LIST

 

 

Thank you to our 2024 event sponsors::

Central Florida Audubon    Sierra Club Florida Wildflower Foundation