Join Bergen County Audubon Society & Teaneck Creek Conservancy as we explore what plants are flowering in July and which animals depend on them as we explore who is residing at Teaneck Creek this summer.

BCAS offers two walks monthly at the Conservancy. One walk is typically on the weekend and one during the week. Birders of all levels and interests are welcome to attend. BCAS will have additional guides on hand to help newer birders identify birds. Programs with BCAS are part of the Conservancy's year round suite of free public programs. If you enjoy this program we encourage you to donate or become a member to support more programming like BCAS monthly nature and native plant walks.

Meet in the Parking Lot at 20 Puffin Way.
Program Contact: Don Torino greatauk4@gmail.com (201) 230-4983
This is a family-friendly program. Rain or Shine

Registration recommended.

Join Bergen County Audubon Society & Teaneck Creek Conservancy as we explore what plants are flowering in July and which animals depend on them. BCAS will help you make powerful connections between the feathered friends we love and the habitats they need to survive.

BCAS offers two walks monthly at the Conservancy. One walk is typically on the weekend and one during the week. Birders of all levels and interests are welcome to attend. BCAS will have additional guides on hand to help newer birders identify birds. Programs with BCAS are part of the Conservancy's year round suite of free public programs. If you enjoy this program we encourage you to donate or become a member to support more programming like BCAS monthly nature and native plant walks.

Meet in the Parking Lot at 20 Puffin Way.
Program Contact: Don Torino greatauk4@gmail.com (201) 230-4983
This is a family-friendly program. Rain or Shine

Registration recommended.

Join Bergen County Audubon Society & Teaneck Creek Conservancy to Learn the basics of how to get started birding. We’ll cover bird identification, field guides and optics. Bring binoculars if you have them.

BCAS offers two walks monthly at the Conservancy. One walk is typically on the weekend and one during the week. Birders of all levels and interests are welcome to attend. BCAS will have additional guides on hand to help newer birders identify birds. Programs with BCAS are part of the Conservancy's year round suite of free public programs. If you enjoy this program we encourage you to donate or become a member to support more programming like BCAS monthly nature and native plant walks.

Meet in the Parking Lot at 20 Puffin Way.

Program Contact: Don Torino greatauk4@gmail.com (201) 230-4983

This is a family-friendly program. Rain or Shine

Registration recommended.

Join Bergen County Audubon Society & Teaneck Creek Conservancy to see which of our feathered friends are residing at Teaneck Creek this summer.

BCAS offers two walks monthly at the Conservancy. One walk is typically on the weekend and one during the week. Birders of all levels and interests are welcome to attend. BCAS will have additional guides on hand to help newer birders identify birds. Programs with BCAS are part of the Conservancy's year round suite of free public programs. If you enjoy this program we encourage you to donate or become a member to support more programming like BCAS monthly nature and native plant walks.

Meet in the Parking Lot at 20 Puffin Way.

Program Contact: Don Torino greatauk4@gmail.com (201) 230-4983

This is a family-friendly program. Rain or Shine

Registration recommended.

Join the Eco-Artists of Teaneck Creek, Nitza Danieli and Despina Metaxatos, to experience the creative nature experience of plein air painting that engages all of your senses with watercolor, fragrance and plant rubbings. Program will be taking place in the Peace Labyrinth.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own easel, canvas, and stool. Stone seating and benches are available in the Labyrinth.

This is a family-friendly program
In the event of rain, program be be rescheduled.

Registration required. Registration opens April 15.

Just before this program is the Native Plant Walk with Bergen County Audubon Society (10a-12p). We encourage you to make a day of it!

Join Bergen County Audubon Society and TCC as we explore the creek for native birds and the plants they depend upon.

BCAS offers two walks monthly at the Conservancy. One walk is typically on the weekend and one during the week. Birders of all levels and interests are welcome to attend. BCAS will have additional guides on hand to help newer birders identify birds. Nature Walks with BCAS are part of the Conservancy's year round suite of free public programs. If you enjoy this program we encourage you to donate or become a member to support more programming like BCAS Nature Walks.

Meet in the Parking Lot at 20 Puffin Way.

Program Contact: Don Torino greatauk4@gmail.com (201) 230-4983

This is a family-friendly program. Rain or Shine

Registration recommended. Registration opens April 15.

Immediately following this program is Plein Air Art Experience in the Peace Labyrinth (12-2pm). Registration Plein air program is required.

The Puffin Cultural Forum celebrates the reopening of the Teaneck Creek Conservancy with a free Jazz concert in our park(ing lot)! Art Lillard’s Blue Heaven Swing Sextet performs favorites from the Great American Songbook as well as swinging original compositions. Led by drummer Art Lillard, the band features Cecila Coleman (keyboard), Ralph Hamperian (bass), Kate Anderson (tenor sax), Chris Persad (trumpet), and Noah Bless (trombone).

Seating is provided but you are welcome to bring your own comfy chairs and refreshments. Bathrooms will be accessible. Concert will move indoors in case of rain!

Reservations recommended via email tix@puffinfoundation.org or by phone 201-836-3499. Include your last name, name of the event, # of seats, phone #, and email address for confirmation.

If you enjoy reading and care about the environment, join Eco Book Club hosted by Teaneck Creek Conservancy and Teaneck Public Library! Eco Book Club meets monthly to read, share, learn and discuss a variety of environmental and nature-themed books and topics.

Weaving together the voices of four remarkable women, this novel is a beautifully told story of reawakening, of remembering our original relationship to the seeds and, through them, to our ancestors. Join us to discuss our May selection!

Eco Book Club sessions are part of the Conservancy's year round suite of free public programs.  If you enjoy this program we encourage you to donate or become a member to support more programming like Eco Book Club.

Please RSVP below and find borrowing information here.

Join the Eco Book Club Facebook Group for members, prospective members, and friends to share related information, articles, books, events, etc. here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ecobookclubteaneck

Registration required. (External site)

County of Bergen Parks Department and the Puffin Foundation are pleased to join Teaneck Creek Conservancy in inviting the park designers back to Teaneck Creek Park to explain the new park features and how they will benefit people and wildlife alike now that the project has been completed and people have had an opportunity to explore the new park. Join the park designers to learn and ask questions about the restoration process of the 20 acre wetland.

Indoor event
teen - adult

In-Person Covid Policy for the Puffin Cultural Forum.
• Events are open to a limited audience up to 70 persons
• Properly fitting KN95 or N95 masks are required indoors

Registration required. Registration opens April 15.

Program sponsored by Veolia.

With climate change often resulting in summer water restrictions, rain barrels can keep your gardens green. Learn how to successfully implement a rain barrel at home and see how we use them at TCC! Join Beverly Luchfeld and Dave Chalek for a discussion practical discussion in the beautiful Peace Labyrinth. Sponsored by The Jack Flamholz Sustainability Project.

Teen to adult
Rain or shine.

Registration recommended.

In the event of severe weather, the program will be canceled. Registrants will be notified via email.

Make a day of it at the Creek! Begin in hte moring with a Mothers Day Bird walk with BCAS, learn how to garden in wet areas and then if you have areas of your property that are drier, stay for our rain barrel program!

That challenging wet area of your yard can be an opportunity to plant wetland natives that will thrive while attracting birds and pollinators to your garden. Join us to learn how! Outdoor Classroom Garden designer, Despina Metaxatos, and Dave Chalek of Sprouts Farms & Gardens will be leading a conversation to help you develop a native green thumb!

Rain or Shine
Teen to Adult

In the event of severe weather, the program will be canceled. Registrants will be notified via email.

Registration required. Registration opens April 15.

Make a day of it and come early to learn about the wildlife that benefits from native plants! Join Bergen County Audubon Society on their Mother's Day Nature Walk from 10-12p. Meet at the Puffin Parking lot.

Join Bergen County Audubon Society and TCC as we celebrate mothers human and feathered. BCAS offers two walks monthly at the Conservancy. One walk is typically on the weekend and one during the week. Birders of all levels and interests are welcome to attend. BCAS will have additional guides on hand to help newer birders identify birds. Nature Walks with BCAS are part of the Conservancy's year-round suite of free public programs. If you enjoy this program we encourage you to donate or become a member to support more programming like BCAS Nature Walks.

Meet in the Parking Lot at 20 Puffin Way.
Program Contact: Don Torino greatauk4@gmail.com (201) 230-4983

This is a family-friendly program.
Rain or Shine

Registration recommended. Registration opens April 15.

Make a day of it and walk over to the Outdoor Classroom at the Fycke Lane entrance to learn about gardening with natives if you have a wet yard (12:45-2:15pm). Outdoor Classroom Garden designer, Despina Metaxatos, and Dave Chalek of Sprouts Farms & Gardens will be leading a conversation to help you develop a native green thumb!

Get a taste of our summer literacy program. Join Teaneck Library and TCC for stories and fun nature activities. Best for ages 4+.

Creek Adventure Storytime sessions are part of the Conservancy's free public programs each summer.  If you enjoy this program we encourage you to donate or become a member to support more programming like Creek Adventure Storytime.

Registration required. (External site)

In the event of severe weather, the program will be postponed. Registrants will be notified via email.  Rain date is the following Monday, May 15 4 pm - 5pm.

Rachel Banai, curator

In 2001, Perry Rosenstein recruited an eclectic group of environmentalists, artists, and educators to rescue a small parcel of land in the southernmost portion of Teaneck. Once a staging ground for the construction of the intersection of Routes 80 & 95, the land had been an unofficial dumpsite for nearly half a century. Refrigerators and old tires lie half-buried under mountains of broken concrete and asphalt. In 2006, Teaneck Creek Park emerged with over 1.3 miles of groomed trails, an outdoor classroom, and ecological art exhibits that makes this oasis unlike any other. During the period of 2020-23, the Park went through a major environmental and structural uplifting, the results of which have just been made available to the public.

The Puffin Camera Club, supported by the Puffin Foundation, has recorded the development of the park artistically for all these years, under the leadership of Rachel Banai, a world-renowned photographer. Explore the culmination of the Puffin Camera Club’s artistic expressions over the last 20 years. It displays images of various natural subjects: flowers and shrubs, animals and birds, water and ice, as well as man-made artifacts reflecting the layered history of the Creek. There are a number of photographic techniques used. We hope you enjoy this collection capturing, celebrating and bearing witness to nature’s endless capacity for renewal and rebirth.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Puffin Foundation and Ms. Gladys Rosenstein-Miller and Mr. Neal Rosenstein for providing the economic and social canvases for our show, and, specifically, Ms. Melissa Lyman, a designer, and Mr. Andrew Lee, the Director of the Puffin Cultural Forum, without whom the exhibition could not have happened.

Indoors
This program is family friendly.
Gallery Hours: T-F 10:30am - 4pm

In-Person Covid Policy
Properly fitting KN95 or N95 masks are required indoors

Registration required. Registration opens April 15.

You can also register for the event over phone by calling 201-836-3499.
Include your last name, name of the event, # of seats, phone #, and an email address for confirmation.

Make a day of it at Teaneck Creek. Check out our earlier programs on Rain Barrels and using iNaturalist.

Learn how to contribute to community science efforts at Teaneck Creek. Sandy Wolkenberg will lead a hands-on workshop in the Pollinator Gardens. Learn how to use your phone to document plants, birds and other nature organisms at Teaneck Creek. Sandy is a retired teacher, volunteer and guide at the New York Botanical Garden, and avid iNaturalist.

Rain or Shine
This is a family-friendly program. In the event of severe weather, the program will be canceled. Registrants will be notified via email.

Registration Recommended. Registration opens April 15.

Make a day of it at Teaneck Creek.

Just before Investigating Nature with iNaturalist, TCC will host a Rain Barrel demonstration in the Pollinator Gardens.

After iNaturalist, the Puffin Cultural Forum will open their doors to reveal the 20th Anniversary of the Puffin Camera Club exhibit. Come check out how the park has changed over 20 years.

Program sponsored by Veolia.

See how storm-downed trees are reimagined into carefully crafted sculptures. Kids and adults alike will enjoy a hands-on wood stamp activity with Eco-Artist Anthony Santella. Afterwards, enjoy a self-guided walk through the restored wetlands.

This is a family-friendly program.
In the event of severe weather, the program will be canceled. Registrants will be notified via email.

Make a day of it! Begin the morning with Teaneck Creek Yesterday and Today Walk from 10am-12pm before checking out Anthony's demonstration.

Registration Recommended. Walk-ins welcome.

Join Dena Grushkin for a 75-minute vinyasa flow filled with dynamic movement, breath work, and lots of energy. Plus a free raffle for one lucky winner!

100% of proceeds will be donated to the Teaneck Creek Conservancy: a non profit organization dedicated to the reclamation and protection of the environmental, cultural, and historical legacy of the Teaneck Creek watershed.

 Donation: $20

Register here.

Come and explore the new trail experience at the recently renovated Teaneck Creek Park with George Reskakis, Teaneck Creek Conservancy’s long time volunteer and co-coordinator of the volunteer group, Weed Warriors. George will lead you through the mile long trail, share stories about the Creek’s history, discuss the park’s ecology and highlight the physical improvements to the park.

Meet in the Parking Lot at 20 Puffin Way.

This is a family-friendly program.
Rain or Shine

Registration Recommended. Walk-ins welcome provided we have space. Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to register.

Explore all Teaneck Creek Conservancy has to offer! At the end of the walk, check out Eco-Artist Anthony Santella's Woodcarving Demonstration at the Puffin Way entrance.

An important wetland ecosystem in New Jersey, the Meadowlands have experienced development and urbanization in a way few other wetland complexes have. Arranged by Hackensack Riverkeeper and the Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck Creek Conservancy invites author Erik Kiviat to presenting the findings from book he recently published with Kristi MacDonald: Urban Diversity - The Natural History of the NJ Meadowlands. As the northern edge of the Meadowlands Complex these lessons will resonate for Teaneck Creek! "Kiviat and MacDonald delve into the considerable biodiversity of an ecologically battered urban-industrial region, addressing wild species from lichens to mammals. The results will help decision makers foster wildlife and plants that can cope with urban conditions and will aid in reducing loss of biodiversity in urbanizing areas"-- Provided by publisher.

Presenter: Erik Kiviat, author
Sponsored by: Hackensack Riverkeeper and The Puffin Cultural Forum

teen to adult
Indoors

In-Person Covid Policy
• Events are open to a limited audience up to 70 persons
• Properly fitting KN95 or N95 masks are required indoors

Registration required. Walk-ins welcome provided we have space. Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to register.

You can also register for the event over phone by calling 201-836-3499.
Include your last name, name of the event, # of seats, phone #, and an email address for confirmation.

This is our first reopening program for May. Please check out the full May calendar for walks, talks, and more!