Archtober: Ancestral Ecologies Sunset Tour
The garden's curators walk you through a site-specific exhibition of new work by the first fellows of a new art and environment fellowship, with the tour timed for sunset.
Outdoors
Outdoors — change
Shinnecock Oral History Plant Tour
Chenae Bullock, a member of the Shinnecock Nation, leads a walk through the Native Flora Garden, with plants explained through Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge. A small, specific tour.
Before New York: Staten Island
Dr. Eric W. Sanderson reconstructs the original forests, wetlands, and waterways of the place and ties them to today's flooding, climate resilience, and environmental justice.
Kiku: Spotlight on Tradition
Japanese chrysanthemums coaxed into traditional forms over 11 months, including the ozukuri, where a single stem carries hundreds of blooms. Fall flowers in warm hues fill out the glasshouse.
Revolutionary Spirits
A trolley tour of the cemetery's Revolutionary War figures and early distillers, then on to a whiskey tasting: rye straight off the still, a pour from the barrel, and barrel-aged maple syrup.
Secrets in Stone
A walking tour through Green-Wood that teaches you to read Victorian grave symbols: the carved flowers, weathered angels, and odd emblems, and the stories they were meant to carry.
Kiku Highlight Weekend
Japanese chrysanthemums trained into traditional shapes, like the ozukuri with hundreds of blooms on one stem, plus live Suwa-style taiko from Taiko Masala Dojo, led by Hiro Kurashima.
Ancestral Ecologies
Four multisensory installations from the Heidi Nitze Art × Environment Fellows, each using a different environmental or material phenomenon to explore animist ways of seeing the living world.
Block by Block: Streetscapes
Stoops and streetscapes from the Greenest Block in Brooklyn winners, rebuilt on the garden's grounds and co-created with the gardeners who grew them. Plenty of ideas for your own stoop.
Growing America
American history told through food plants: historic botanical illustrations, planting ledgers and cookbooks inside, then outdoor beds tracing Indigenous foodscapes through the Great Migration.
Birding In Peace
An early walk through Green-Wood before the gates open to the public, watching migrating warblers, flycatchers, sparrows, and vireos, with waterfowl and raptors heading south overhead.
