Budding Botanist Training | Desert Botanical Garden

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Budding Botanist Training

DATE: SOLD OUT | Feb. 17 - 19
TIME: 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
PRICE: $40


SOLD OUT

Join this three-day virtual workshop to learn about Arizona’s great diversity of plants, important plant families and how to identify plants based on their distinguishing features. Dissecting kits are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please indicate if you are interested in receiving one of these kits during the checkout process. If you are interested in financial assistance, please email kara@gwpaz.org for scholarship options.

This event is co-hosted by Central Arizona Conservation Alliance and Gila Watershed Partnership and support from Freeport McMoRan.

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