Garden Discovery Day - Hansen Park Heritage Garden

Join the Benton Conservation District’s Heritage Garden Program for a day of pollinators, native plants and family fun in the Hansen Park Heritage Garden!  This family friendly event will include educational activities centered around stewardship, conservation and sustainable land use practices in our region with specific emphasis on gardening with native plants and pollinator health.  Activities include sowing seeds, pollinator presentation, seedball making, arts and crafts, button making and more!  Pollinator costumes are welcome and encouraged.  Bee there or bee square!  ;)

What: Garden Discovery Day + Conservation Fair - Hansen Park Heritage Garden

When: Saturday May 18th 2024 10-1PM

Where:  Hansen Park Heritage Garden (602 S Columbia Center Blvd, Kennewick, WA 99336)

Parking:  Parking lot cross streets: Columbia Center Blvd + W 7th Ave

• 10 AM - 11 AM Planting Milkweed for Monarchs     
  • Sow seeds of our local milkweed plant and learn about the importance of host plants for pollinators.  Participants will get to keep the seeds they sow!
• 10:30-12 PM Seedball Making for the Shrub Steppe     
  • Seedballs made will be used for restoration projects locally
• 11:30 AM -12 PM Pollinator Presentation with guest speaker Dr David James, WSU Entomologist + Butterfly Enthusiast
• 12 PM -12:45 PM What is a Heritage Garden? Tour + Gardening with Native Plants Discussion     
  • Learn about waterwise gardening with native plants
• 10:00-1 PM - Educational activities, Arts + Crafts + Pollinator Viewing

Special thanks to our partner the City of Kennewick Parks Department for helping facilitate this event and to all the fabulous volunteers that lend their time and energy.  The Heritage Garden at Hansen Park was created in 2018 with the conversion of 20,000 square feet (approx. 0.5 acre) of the city park.  The Benton Conservation District (BCD) and Kennewick's Parks & Recreation staff work together to manage the garden. A team of volunteer gardeners perform routine maintenance of the garden under the supervision of the BCD.  This garden is estimated to save over 440,000 gallons of water per year compared to a traditional lawn!