Community Calendar

A new way to bond with your little one this summer: Flutterbys — our ‘mini & me’ family class!

Flutterbys is just 8 weeks long, but more fun than you could imagine! Play games, stretch, learn aerial, and more with your family.

Keep your mini entertained and make long lasting memories with us on Thursdays at 9-9:45am. Can’t make all 8 weeks? Don’t worry! We have a new 5 class punch card available. Choose which weeks you can attend, and keep your wallet happy.

Monsoon season brings some of the most precious water the Colorado Plateau receives all year — and with the right techniques, you can make every drop count. Join Water Conservation Specialist Emily Melhorn for a hands-on look at rainwater harvesting strategies you can put to work at home, from simple barrel collection to landscape-scale earthworks.

Whether you’re a longtime gardener or just getting started, Emily will walk you through practical methods for capturing and storing rainwater efficiently — so your plants (and the watershed) benefit long after the clouds clear.

Plus: Enter a raffle for a chance to win a free rain barrel and start harvesting right away.

Included with garden admission · Free for members

Our Community Listens is a three-day communication skills class designed to help you listen more effectively, express yourself more clearly, and build stronger relationships, transforming the way you show up for your family, your workplace, and your community.

Class Outcomes:
- Understand your unique communication profile and how your behavioral tendencies shape the way you
connect with others.

- Build the ability to adapt your communication style to work more effectively across different communication
styles and tendencies.

- Develop listening skills that strengthen relationships and create space for others to be heard.

- Gain a practical method to address confrontation directly, respectfully, and productively.

- Walk away with tools and strategies you can put into practice the moment you leave the classroom.

Our Community Listens is a three-day communication skills class designed to help you listen more effectively, express yourself more clearly, and build stronger relationships, transforming the way you show up for your family, your workplace, and your community.

Class Outcomes:
- Understand your unique communication profile and how your behavioral tendencies shape the way you
connect with others.

- Build the ability to adapt your communication style to work more effectively across different communication
styles and tendencies.

- Develop listening skills that strengthen relationships and create space for others to be heard.

- Gain a practical method to address confrontation directly, respectfully, and productively.

- Walk away with tools and strategies you can put into practice the moment you leave the classroom.

Our Community Listens is a three-day communication skills class designed to help you listen more effectively, express yourself more clearly, and build stronger relationships, transforming the way you show up for your family, your workplace, and your community.

Class Outcomes:
- Understand your unique communication profile and how your behavioral tendencies shape the way you
connect with others.

- Build the ability to adapt your communication style to work more effectively across different communication
styles and tendencies.

- Develop listening skills that strengthen relationships and create space for others to be heard.

- Gain a practical method to address confrontation directly, respectfully, and productively.

- Walk away with tools and strategies you can put into practice the moment you leave the classroom.

Join our weekly writing group to practice your writing habit!

With the use of prompts, time allotments, and group sharing, Wily Writers will learn more about their writing and support others along the way.

Constructive and positive feedback is welcome and encouraged! Our ultimate goal is to make writing more accessible and approachable for everyone at any level. You bring your writing tools and we'll bring the fun!

To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, please call 928-213-2330. Three days prior notice is requested.

Wildflower Morning Walk

The high desert wakes up slowly — and there’s no better way to greet it than on foot, surrounded by color. Join an Arboretum staff naturalist for a morning walk through the gardens as Northern Arizona’s native wildflowers reach their seasonal peak. From the delicate blooms of desert penstemon to the vivid sprawl of summer prairie, our knowledgeable guides will help you see the landscape the way a botanist does — with curiosity, care, and a deep appreciation for what makes the Colorado Plateau so extraordinary.

Every step reveals something worth noticing.

Please bring water, a camera, and comfortable walking shoes.

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Live Raptor Talk at the Arboretum
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Come see live raptors from the International Raptor and Falconry Center!

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Raptors: Wings Over the Colorado Plateau

Few encounters in nature stop you in your tracks quite like a raptor in flight. Join Michelle from the International Raptor & Falconry Center for a captivating program on the raptors that share our skies — and the urgent conservation work being done to protect them worldwide.

Through live bird demonstrations and an up-close look at some of the world’s most remarkable birds of prey, Michelle will explore the vital role raptors play in healthy ecosystems, the threats they face across the globe, and what humans have learned from thousands of years of falconry’s intimate relationship with these birds.

An experience equally at home in the ancient and the wild — right here in the heart of Flagstaff.

No dogs at this event ~ thank you.

Included with garden admission · Free for members

Meetings are held both in-person and via Zoom and feature presentations by experienced genealogists on a wide range of relevant topics. Open to the public; non-members welcome!
Find the Zoom link on our website.

We also partner with the Prescott Public Library and the local Family Search Center to provide in-person as well as Zoom mentoring opportunities to aid in your family research.

Join our weekly writing group to practice your writing habit!

With the use of prompts, time allotments, and group sharing, Wily Writers will learn more about their writing and support others along the way.

Constructive and positive feedback is welcome and encouraged! Our ultimate goal is to make writing more accessible and approachable for everyone at any level. You bring your writing tools and we'll bring the fun!

To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, please call 928-213-2330. Three days prior notice is requested.