Starflower Experiences' Home Page

Long Island, New York

e-mail us at info@starflowerexperiences.org

Starflower Experiences, Inc. is a local not-for-profit educational organization that offers programs and experiences to help people understand, appreciate, and live more in harmony with the earth's life systems.

Starflower Experiences runs an Accredited Earthkeepers_TM program

using a Sky's Eye
Checking the view above with a 'Sky's Eye'

This summer: July 9-13, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, followed by an optional week of Earth Explorers

Download a registration flyer here for our summer experiences: Summer 2012

The Earthkeepers program is run at sites around the world!

Rangers of the Earth_TM

Starflower Experiences was lucky to be a pilot site for The Institute for Earth Education's Rangers of the Earth program. This is the ninth year at the Martin Luther King Jr School in Wyandanch.

Finding a worm while on patrol

This powerful program takes a whole year to complete, yet requires only 2 full days at an outdoor site plus opportunities for youngsters to explore natural places in their own community.

Check out our upcoming events:
    "Camp" open house: March 24 from 1-4 pm at Manor Farm. Come find out about our summer programs
    Work Days at Manor Farm: May 5, 2012
    Next Community Yard Sale is June 2, 2012. (scroll down for info)
    Long Island Naturally, our environmental fair is September 29, 2012.

Volunteers welcomed!

Want a free energy audit of your home?
Click here: free energy audit. If you live in the Town of Huntington, click here: EECO Homes. Making your home more energy efficient will dramatically reduce your contribution to global warming, make your house more comfortable and save you a lot of money all at the same time. You can expect to see at least a 25% reduction in your home's fuel and electricity use. Starflower Experiences is working with LI Green to help you improve the efficiency of your home.

Green Living Seminars
Starflower Experiences is holding monthly Green Living Seminars the 2nd Thursday of each month (except July and August) from 7-9 pm. We want to help people think about their life choices and their impact on the earth and learn about ways they can personally lessen their impact. Come and learn how to live a more environmentally-friendly lifestyle. These will be held at the Melville Branch of the Half Hollow Hills Library at 510 Sweet Hollow Road directly across from the Sunquam School. Click on the title above for details.

Community Yard Sale--June 2, 2012
We'll be holding a Community Yard Sale at Manor Farm on Saturday June 2, 2012 (raindate June 3) from 10 am to 4 pm. For a donation of $20 you can have a 10'x10' space to sell your unwanted stuff. If you love garage/yard sales, this is for you! If you want to reserve a space, click here: Yard Sale Reservation form

New program: Nature's Way

2nd - 3rd graders

Full week for a small group

Based at Manor Farm, June 25-29

Focuses on understanding our plant and animal neighbors and how they interact

Youngsters who follow Nature's Way will begin their expedition each day at our headquarters at Manor Farm where they will be involved in games and challenges to better understand their natural neighbors. Then they'll set off along "Nature's Way" in the woodlands of the adjacent Berkeley Jackson County Park where they'll have the chance to practice and apply their new understandings as well as learn to appreciate the natural beauty of this area. Finally, participants will come to see how they can help the plants and animals that live together and depend on each other in natural communities.

Download a registration flyer here for our summer experiences: Summer 2012

THE NORTH FACE EXPLORE FUND AWARDS GRANT TO STARFLOWER EXPERIENCES
The North Face has awarded a $1967 grant to Starflower Experiences to help children explore the outdoors through its Earth Explorers opportunities for Earth Rangers and Earthkeepers. Starflower Experiences was selected from hundreds of applications because it is particularly reaching young people from Wyandanch. In the final grant cycle of 2011, The North Face awarded $125,000 Explore Fund grants to 51 projects helping more than 30,000 kids to connect to nature.

Get our Spring 2011 newsletter here!
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Can you help?

We are looking for donations of:
      · gloves/mittens for winter
      · tree branches approximately 3" in diameter
      · trowels, shovels (used is fine)
      · garden rakes (not leaf rakes)
      · garden gloves
      · garden hoses
      · clippers and loppers for trimming trails
      · natural history books for our Ranger Station
      · a data projector
      · binoculars
      · a small digital camera
      · a photo printer
      · a 10 x 10 'festival' tent
      · a library-style step stool

We're seeking people to help keep trails trimmed in Berkeley Jackson County Park and Manor Road Park. If you are not susceptable to poison ivy, we especially need you! We also need someone who can do some minor carpentry/constructon for a few interior projects at Manor Farm. And we'd like someone or a group to take on the care of our new raised bed garden at Manor Farm. If you help care for it, you can try the veggies.

Thanks for the very generous help!

in Jericho for food at LI Naturally

for powering the stage at LI Naturally

for sponsoring LI Naturally

for sponsoring LI Naturally

Northport Tasting Room & Wine Cellar for our fundraiser

You can phone us at 516-938-6152 or email us at info@starflowerexperiences.org.

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Donations to Starflower Experiences are tax-deductible.
You can still send a check or donate needed items, but if you want to donate here online, now you can!