NATURE CALENDAR
Your Urban Wilderness Community
Welcome to Nature Calendar! Starting June 21, the summer solstice, this website will help you find local natural happenings – trees fruiting, horseshoe crabs mating, hawks and shad migrating, lilacs blooming, butterflies flitting across mints, diamondback terrapin turtles laying eggs, meteor showers, seals wintering over, mushrooms becoming flush, and much more – as easily as you check movie, gallery, and sports listings.
All for free!
You’ll also be able to add your own observations to Nature Calendar for others to enjoy. If you care for a community garden, park, waterway, or environmental cause, we invite you to use Nature Calendar to increase attendance, volunteerism, media coverage, and visits to your website. Teachers and students will use Nature Calendar to plan class trips and activities. University scientists will have a user-friendly outlet to share their research with a broader community.
If you have observations you'd already like to add, please write to us! We'll include them in on the calendar on our launch day.
Our mission is to grow public awareness of our natural environment. By instilling eager anticipation of natural events and seasonal rhythms we hope to seed greater community stewardship of our ecology.
Nature Community, our sister website also launching June 21 and woven into Nature Calendar, will feature essays and profiles that bring to light the personal connections environmental stewards develop with local plants and animals, and with the issues and allies that are so important to them. If you would like to contribute a brief essay of your reflections, please write to us for more information.
If you would like your organization, park, or other information to be included in our links page, please feel free to drop us a note.
We all have much to teach each other about the wildernesses that exists in our own neighborhoods. We look forward to deepening our knowledge and sense of community through Nature Calendar!
To invest, advertise, contribute sightings, essays and photos, or otherwise help, please contact us: