The spring forage-ables are starting to pop and we want to celebrate the edible gifts Mother Nature is providing! Join us for an incredibly delicious night of learning about wild greens, hands-on foraging and crafting a communal foraged dinner together in the woods!

Is there anything more perfect than hiking with friends and then enjoying a pie picnic in a lilac arboretum? Absolutely not. Join us for a perfect spring Pike celebrating the beauty of blooming lilacs, the middle of spring, and perfect evenings! We’ll hike the trails of Ewing Park on Des Moines’s south side before enjoying a pie picnic after!

Celebrate spring and an early 4/20 with us and our friends at Yonderbound as we experiment with craft cocktails, mocktails and THC-infused creations around the campfire at Water Works Park in Des Moines.

Part hike, part art class, part excuse to slow way down — this nature journaling experience at Zo-el Nature Area has it all. Guided by Des Moines textile and fiber artist Genevieve LaValle, you'll spend four unhurried hours outside with a sketchbook, your senses, and zero pressure to make anything "good."

Join us at Terra Park for a two-hour beginner birding walk where we'll practice spotting and identifying birds, using binoculars in the field, and tuning our ears to the sounds of spring. If you've been waiting for the right moment to call yourself a birder, this is it.

Spring blooms are here! Join professional botanist and WW guide Paige for a hike to learn how to spot and identify spring wildflowers native to Iowa! Take a leisurely hike through Yellow Banks Park in Polk Co. while learning to identify common Iowa forest spring ephemerals — or, wildflowers only here for a short time — and put your new identification skills to the test!