On April 24th to May 3rd, the California Academy will be holding the annual City Nature Challenge. You will be able to make observations from April 24th to April 27th and then identify what you have found from April 28th to May 3rd. The event will run a little different this year with the shelter-in-place. Hear all about the changes and how you can participate still on San Francisco! We are sad we cannot be together for a bioblitz on Mount Sutro but we encourage you to still go out in your homes and neighborhoods and make observations! Helpful links: https://citynaturechallenge.org https://www.inaturalist.org https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/getting+started https://calnature.org/blog/2017/9/27/diy-moth-light https://blog.nwf.org/2011/01/for-beginners-four-cant-miss-ways-to-attract-birds-to-your-yard-or-deck/ http://www.reptilesmagazine.com/Field-Herping/4-Ways-to-Create-A-Backyard-Herp-Haven/ https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/1/23/10815572/insects-species-home

From our new virtual volunteering experience Nature in your Neighborhood! Enjoy a recap from one of our volunteer on some Erigeron glaucus, or seaside daisy, that is found growing in her backyard!

During shelter-in-place we have created Nature in your Neighborhood, a virtual volunteering experience! We challenge volunteers to go out into their neighborhoods or backyards and learn more about the plants that grow around them. Here is a submission from a partnership with Hands-on Tomorrow, a summer camp for youth hosted by Hands-on Bay Area.

A video submission from our virtual volunteering experience! See Ritvik discuss his three favorite veggies and fruit that are grown his backyard, cherry tomatoes, eggplant and pomegranate. Join us every 2nd Saturday of the month to make your own discoveries! RSVP at sutrostewards.org/events.

A great video submitted to us all about sticky monkey flower, California cudweed and tufted poppy! You never know what natives you may find near you! Cover photo courtesy Ron Vanderhoff via Calflora.

Nature can be found anywhere, even with our exotic plant friends! Thanks for this submission from our virtual volunteering experience, Nature in your Neighborhood.