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Earth Awakening Festival 2024
Join the Accokeek Foundation to celebrate the beauty of the season as Mother Earth and the vibrant life she sustains reawakens.
Accokeek Foundation
Mar 25, 20242 min read
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Celebrating Native American Heritage Month
This Native American Heritage Month, we encourage you to learn more about the Indigenous people and cultures where you live.
Accokeek Foundation
Nov 8, 20232 min read
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Launch of the Southern Maryland National Heritage Area
Learn about the launch of the Southern Maryland National Heritage Area on May 25, 2023, at the Accokeek Foundation in Piscataway Park.
Accokeek Foundation
May 17, 20231 min read
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Earth Day with the Accokeek Foundation
Thank you to our wonderful Earth Day volunteers for helping to maintain the health and beauty of Piscataway Park!
Kate Hanfling
May 10, 20232 min read
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Citizen Science with the Accokeek Foundation
Join Accokeek Stewardship team in citizen science by using Chronolog stations to track environmental changes in Piscataway Park over time.
Accokeek Foundation
May 2, 20232 min read
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March Green Thumbs Garden Blog
Read about all of the wonderful work being done in the gardens and fields of Piscataway Park!
Accokeek Foundation
Mar 14, 20232 min read
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Piscataway Park’s Not-So-New EDRR Species
This blog introduces EDRR invasive plant species that the Accokeek Foundation's Natural Resources team are focusing on in Piscataway Park.
Accokeek Foundation
Feb 24, 20232 min read
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Green Thumbs Garden Blog
Read about all of the wonderful work being done in the gardens and fields of Piscataway Park!
Accokeek Foundation
Jan 9, 20232 min read
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Extension of Request for Bids for Recreational Trails Interpretation Enhancement in Piscataway Park
Accokeek Foundation is soliciting bids for recreational trails interpretation enhancement in Piscataway Park.
Accokeek Foundation
Jan 4, 20231 min read
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Library Favorites: Holiday Gift Guide
This month we’re doing things a little differently. We’re looking at books available that would make the perfect gift this holiday season!
Kate Hanfling
Nov 14, 20229 min read
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Reimagining the Accokeek Foundation
As we head into the holiday season and the end of 2022, I’m feeling especially reflective and grateful. I can’t believe it’s been nearly...
Accokeek Foundation
Nov 8, 20222 min read
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Want to learn more about Early America? Start your research here!
From time to time, we get asked for help with homework, research problems, and burning questions from the public. So, we thought we’d...
Accokeek Foundation
Mar 10, 20222 min read
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Invasive Issues
A single look around the Piscataway Park forest and you may miss just how many non-native plants and critters are in view. Upon a closer...
Accokeek Foundation
Nov 11, 20215 min read
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It's National Hispanic Heritage Month and we wanted to learn more about Latino Outdoors
We talked with Albert Arévalo who has volunteered with Latino Outdoors since 2016. Here is what he had to share.
Accokeek Foundation
Sep 25, 20212 min read
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Tobacco Tidbit: Planting Perspective
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that the tobacco plant will be responsible for a substantial improvement in the health of a...
Accokeek Foundation
Apr 27, 20214 min read
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#National Picnic Day: Picnicking in Colonial America
Though the concept of the American picnic as we know it today only dates back to the 19th century, picnics in some form have been around...
Accokeek Foundation
Apr 22, 20214 min read
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#PotomacCleanup: 2021 Trash Totals!
This past weekend, we participated in Alice Ferguson Foundation's 33rd Annual Potomac Watershed Cleanup by hosting 2 cleanups onsite!...
Accokeek Foundation
Apr 21, 20212 min read
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Potomac River Shoreline Cleanup Resources
Here is a list of tips, tricks, resources, and educational information around the shoreline cleanups done here at the Accokeek Foundation.
Accokeek Foundation
Mar 23, 20214 min read
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Managing Invasive Plants? Have Faith.
Invasive species are non-native plant species that aggressively establish within an ecosystem different from their own.
Accokeek Foundation
Sep 4, 20205 min read
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The Real-Life Useful Plants Behind the Weeds in Animal Crossing New Horizons
by Kate McGowan, Educator If you’re somehow not familiar with the cultural phenomenon that is Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the premise...
abarnes86
Aug 31, 20203 min read
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