Earth Day Celebration, City Nature Challenge 2025 & Plant Sale

Join us for an exciting day full of events at the Reserve on Sunday, April 27! This is a fun way for the whole family to participate in land stewardship.

City Nature Challenge 2025, 9-12 PM:

Participants in the 2025 City Nature Challenge will observe various species of mosses, birds, amphibians and fungi while deepening their understanding of biodiversity of Bloedel Reserve. As a thank you for volunteering, we are giving away native plants!

This is a free event but in order to participate, pre-registration is required as parking is limited.

Register to participate using this form.

Participants will meet outside the Hort barn. Please enter using the service road entrance off of NE West Port Madison Road as you will not be parking in our regular lot and the Reserve does not open to the public until 10 am. We will email information to you before the event with instructions on how to create your account in iNaturalist, parking instructions and more.

Earth Day Celebration, 10-1 PM:

Enjoy nature-focused activities for kids and food vendors from 10-1 PM at the Residence. The Nature & the Book: 2025 exhibit will also be available in the Residence.

Plant Sale, 10-2 PM:

Find your next blooming beauties at the plant sale, featuring plants from the Reserve nursery, Chimacum Woods, Far Reaches & Salish Trees from 10-2 PM. Native plants will be given away as well, while supplies last.

Earth Day Celebration & Plant Sale activities are available as part of your admission to the Reserve. Reserve your tickets below! If you are participating in the City Nature Challenge, you do not need to reserve tickets but should fill out the form above instead.