Alas, the schedule issues continue because I’ve been dealing with Covid this week! But still wanted to let you know about a few fantastic outdoor events this weekend.

Strawberry Festival at Queens Farm Museum

Solar Observation with the Amateur Astronomers Association at Atlas Park

LaGuardia Community College Urban Agriculture Event

LaGuardia Community College’s Sustainable Urban Agriculture Program

A schedule blow up means that you get to have an extended version of Outdoor Highlights this week. And there’s LOADS going on!

Idlewild Park Black Birders Week Bird Walk

Morning Bird Walk at Gantry Plaza State Park

Joe Michaels Mile Salt Marsh Planting

Alice in Wonderland Victorian Tea Party at Queens County Farm Museum

Celebrate the Trees of Kew Gardens

Teen Girls Softball at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

Mini Concerts in Dinkins Circle/Flushing Meadows-Corona Park with Queens College

Alley Pond Park Adventure Course

Birding: Shorebird Families at Rockaway Park

Birding for Beginners at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

Stonehenge? Whatever…it’s time for Manhattanhenge and this is your guide!

Manhattanhenge info: American Museum of Natural History

Outdoor Highlights

Smiling Hogs Head Ranch: Farming Friday

Historic New York: Ridgewood Reservoir

Fort Tilden and Dunes Hike

It’s time to celebrate (and learn about) the real native New Yorkers — horseshoe crabs!

Horseshoe crab: Wikipedia

Horseshoe crab: NYC Parks

How to flip a horseshoe crab video

Report a tagged horseshoe crab

Project Limulus at Sacred Heart University

Horseshoe Crab Festival at Jamaica Bay

Horseshoe Crab Walk and Coastal Cleanup in the Rockaways

Outdoor Highlights

See above for the Horseshoe Crab Festival and Horseshoe Crab Walk/Coastal Cleanup

Hawk Watch: Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

Victorian Lawn Tea and Music afternoon at the Voelker Orth Museum

The QueensWay is an exciting new green space under development that you are sure to enjoy! Learn more about this wonderful green space for Queens.

The QueensWay website

The QueensWay - Get Involved

Outdoor Highlights

It’s My Park: Andrews Grove

It’s My Park: Lawrence Triangle

It’s My Park: Catharine Turner Richardson Park

It’s My Park: Hallets Cove Playground

Eastern Queen Alliance — garden volunteering

Mother’s Day Birding at Forest Park

Mother Earth Cleanup and Nature Exploration at Rockaway Community Park

28th Annual Apple Blossom Carnival at Queens Farm Museum

Insect Exploration: The Motherly Instincts of Insects at Astoria Park

It’s the season when American Robins get active and that means I’m extra happy! Learn why on this species deep dive.

All About Birds: American Robin

Outdoor Highlights

Earth Day Shoreline Clean Up at Broad Channel American Park

Saturday fun at Queens Farm

Hands On History: Gardening Day! at Rufus King Park

Birding: Spring Migration at Powells Cove Park

Talking with Wing Kong, an environmental artist, nature photographer, sustainability educator, and all around lovely person doing wonderful work right here in Queens!

Wing’s website

Butterflies & Wing on Instagram

Wing on Fine Art America

Outdoor Highlights

Earth Week at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

Park Pals: Signs of Spring

Historic New York: Environmental Impacts of the Civil War

This is Episode 52 and means one year of giving you the Queens Out of Doors podcast! Let’s celebrate!

Outdoor Highlights

Magnetic Archery and Foam Axe Throwing at Detective Keith L. Williams Park

Grow and Gather Gardening Program at Queens Farm

Tree and Compost Giveaway at Queens Botanical Garden

Spring has sprung and blooms are blooming! Listen up and learn about some of our spring flowers.

Spring Flowering Bulbs from GrowNYC

Cornell Flowering Growing Guide

Plants in Bloom at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Outdoor Highlights

It’s My Park at MacDonald Park

Forest Bathing Walk at Alley Pond Environmental Center

Discovery Hike: Disturbed Habitat and Invasive Plant Ecologies