Upcoming Events
This page will be updated as events are added. Come back to see what new programs we have coming up!
Multiple Dates
Fresh Air Fitness: Yoga in the Beal Botanical Garden
Tuesdays in the garden
12:15 - 1:00 p.m.
12:15 - 1:00 p.m.
Get outside and active for free. Enjoy the garden as you make time for your health and wellbeing. Please bring water, dress appropriately for weather, and bring a yoga mat or towel! Classes will meet under the gingko tree in the garden. These classes will be cancelled if there is significant weather. Check University Health and Wellbeing's social media accounts for weather updates. No pre-registration required this year, but there will be a QR code registration prior to the start of class.
Yoga in the Garden is a partnership between the Beal Botanical Garden and University Health and Wellbeing.
Summer Session 1 Dates
May 21, May 28, June 11, June 18, June 25
Summer Session 2 Dates
July 9, July 16, July 23, August 6, August 13
Fall Session Dates
September 3, September 10, September 17, September 24
September 3, September 10, September 17, September 24
September 11 2024
Wellbeing Wednesday: Shapes & Patterns & Mosaics, Oh My!
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Beal Botanical Garden
Register Here
Create a masterpiece while mastering peace at Beal Botanical Garden. Become familiar with the heart of campus while enjoying nature and art for your wellbeing. All programs will proceed while supplies last and with weather permitting.
Mosaics: Be inspired by the shapes and patterns of nature and create a crafty mosaic out of textured materials you may not always think of. Use your mosaic to decorate your dorm or give to a friend. Allow your imagination to run wild!
September 12 2024
Beal Botanical Garden Tour: Fall and Winter Plant Lore
12:10 - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Beal Botanical Garden, meet at the shed
Register Here
Join us for a lunchtime tour of the Beal Botanical Garden to hear some of the plant lore created to explain or protect against the shortening days and darker, colder nights of winter. What’s the connection between corn and Dracula, Santa and Mario, which plants will protect you, and which ones to avoid?
Instructor: Maeve Bassett, Education Program Director
This program is a collaboration with the MSU Library.
September 12 2024
BealFest 2024: The Apple of MSU's Eye
4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Location: Beal Botanical Garden
Location: Beal Botanical Garden
Let us know you're coming! Register Here
Join us for Beal Botanical Garden's annual fall celebration. Honoring 150 years of MSU's Campus Arboretum, this year's theme will highlight trees, with headliner, the much beloved apple! This event will include something for everyone with activities, performances, demonstrations, treats, and trees to adopt!
Featured guests:
- Sparty
- Zeke the Wonderdog
- River, the MSU DPPS comfort dog
September 18 2024
Wellbeing Wednesday: Painting in the Garden
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Beal Botanical Garden
Register Here
Create a masterpiece while mastering peace at Beal Botanical Garden. Become familiar with the heart of campus while enjoying nature and art for your wellbeing. All programs will proceed while supplies last and with weather permitting.
Painting: Allow the garden to be your muse and paint to your heart's desire. Bring your own material to paint on such as canvas, a bag, maybe even some shoes! Supplies will be limited. The first to come will be the first to paint!
September 21 2024
Celebrating Citizen Science
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Beal Botanical Garden
Join us at the Beal Botanical Garden for a celebration of citizen science! The celebration will include a brief iNaturalist and SEEK (the youth version) training, a garden bioblitz, unveiling of our new photo stations, a tree give-away, and more!
This program series is a collaboration between the Beal Botanical Garden, MSU Herbarium, and the East Lansing Public Library.
September 25 2024
Wellbeing Wednesday: Sip & Spill Some Tea
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Beal Botanical Garden
Register Here
Create a masterpiece while mastering peace at Beal Botanical Garden. Become familiar with the heart of campus while enjoying nature and art for your wellbeing. All programs will proceed while supplies last and with weather permitting.
Tea & Journaling: Take a moment to enjoy a personalized tea blend and journal away. Don't have a journal? No worries, we have one you can pocket.
October 10 2024
Beal Botanical Garden Tour: Taking a 'Peak' of Autumn
12:10 - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Beal Botanical Garden, meet at the shed
Register Here
Join us for a lunchtime tour of the Beal Botanical Garden to enjoy the signs of fall, vibrant changing leaves, splitting seed pods, and plants getting ready for a cozy Michigan winter.
Instructor: Bethany Troy, Lead Gardener
This program is a collaboration with the MSU Library.
