Piscataway Park

Accokeek Foundation

Mar 252 min read

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.

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Celebrating Native American Heritage Month

Accokeek Foundation

Nov 8, 20232 min read

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.

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Launch of the Southern Maryland National Heritage Area

Accokeek Foundation

May 17, 20231 min read

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.

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Kate Hanfling

May 10, 20232 min read

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!

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Accokeek Foundation

May 2, 20232 min read

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.

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Accokeek Foundation

Mar 14, 20232 min read

March Green Thumbs Garden Blog

Read about all of the wonderful work being done in the gardens and fields of Piscataway Park!

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Piscataway Park’s Not-So-New EDRR Species

Accokeek Foundation

Feb 24, 20232 min read

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.

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Accokeek Foundation

Jan 9, 20232 min read

Green Thumbs Garden Blog

Read about all of the wonderful work being done in the gardens and fields of Piscataway Park!

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Extension of Request for Bids for Recreational Trails Interpretation Enhancement in Piscataway Park

Accokeek Foundation

Jan 4, 20231 min read

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.

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Kate Hanfling

Nov 14, 20229 min read

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!

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Accokeek Foundation

Nov 8, 20222 min read

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...

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Want to learn more about Early America? Start your research here!

Accokeek Foundation

Mar 10, 20222 min read

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...

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Accokeek Foundation

Nov 11, 20215 min read

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...

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It's National Hispanic Heritage Month and we wanted to learn more about Latino Outdoors

Accokeek Foundation

Sep 25, 20212 min read

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.

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Accokeek Foundation

Apr 27, 20214 min read

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...

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#National Picnic Day: Picnicking in Colonial America

Accokeek Foundation

Apr 22, 20214 min read

#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...

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Accokeek Foundation

Apr 21, 20212 min read

#PotomacCleanup: 2021 Trash Totals!

This past weekend, we participated in Alice Ferguson Foundation's 33rd Annual Potomac Watershed Cleanup by hosting 2 cleanups onsite!...

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Potomac River Shoreline Cleanup Resources

Accokeek Foundation

Mar 23, 20214 min read

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.

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Accokeek Foundation

Sep 4, 20205 min read

Managing Invasive Plants? Have Faith.

Invasive species are non-native plant species that aggressively establish within an ecosystem different from their own.

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The Real-Life Useful Plants Behind the Weeds in Animal Crossing New Horizons

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Aug 31, 20203 min read

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...

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