Project Stay Planted - April 22 to May 25, 2020

How much do you know about the plants that surround you?

Do you want to learn more?

Will you help advance environmental science research around the world?

Participate in Project Stay Planted, Naples Botanical Garden’s new citizen-science initiative using iNaturalist, an app that feeds data to researchers studying the natural world. You’ll become a scientist yourself — an amateur conservation biologist — as you learn to observe, record, and contemplate what’s growing just beyond your front door.

Plants are the foundation of all life on Earth, and yet, they may be Earth’s most underappreciated life-form. This project encourages you to connect with the plants around you, beginning with the simple act of looking for them and learning their names.

Project Stay Planted launched on Earth Day, April 22. The theme for this 50^th anniversary year is “climate action.” What better way to spur environmental involvement than by engaging in community science? After all, we cannot protect what we do not understand.

Brush up on terms before you dive in!