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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.
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Accokeek Foundation
- May 17
- 1 min
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
- 2 min
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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Risharda Harley
- May 2
- 2 min
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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Pam Brumbley
- Mar 14
- 2 min
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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Risharda Harley
- Feb 24
- 2 min
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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Pam Brumbley
- Jan 9
- 2 min
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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Accokeek Foundation
- Jan 4
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 9 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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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Kate McGowan
- Mar 10, 2022
- 2 min
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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Kaylin Beach
- Nov 11, 2021
- 5 min
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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Accokeek Foundation
- Sep 25, 2021
- 2 min
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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Kaylin Beach
- Apr 27, 2021
- 4 min
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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Kate Hanfling, Volunteer
- Apr 22, 2021
- 4 min
#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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Kaylin Beach
- Apr 21, 2021
- 2 min
#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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Kaylin Beach
- Mar 23, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 5 min
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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abarnes86
- Aug 31, 2020
- 3 min
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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abarnes86
- May 25, 2020
- 3 min
Self-Guided Adventures
If you’re anything like us, you may have found solace these past few months in nature and the outdoors. While staying home and staying...
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