Please RSVP to ALL Events so that we can update you with any changes.  

info@friendsofhp.org 

The Education and Research Center is Closed for the Winter

But if you would like to visit us you can set up an appointment by e-mailing info@friendsofhp.org 

See you in the SPRING!

Past Events

Backyard Habitat Program - Family Friendly - Thursday July 25th 10am - Noon

Join us for an adventure in the Hempstead Plains grassland.  We’ll tour the rare prairie habitat and learn about the creatures that live there, from meadow voles to peregrine falcons and monarch butterflies.  Find out how to attract birds and pollinators to your own yard and make your own insect nesting box.

*Sponsored by East Meadow Public Library 

Yoga and Tour of the Plains - Saturday August 10th 10:00am - Noon

Invasive Spedies Awareness Volunteer Day - Thursday July 11th 

Fourteenth Annual Prairie Benefit 

Sponsored by 

Flushing Bank serves consumers, businesses, professionals, corporate clients, and public entities by offering a full complement of deposit, loan, equipment finance, and cash management services through its banking offices located in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and on Long Island. The Bank also operates an online banking division consisting of iGObanking.com^®, which offers competitively priced deposit products to consumers nationwide, and BankPurely^®, an eco-friendly, healthier lifestyle community brand.

Honorees 
- Special Guest: Eileen Krieb, Commissioner, Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums 
- Visionary Award: Clark Mitchell, The BAND Foundation
- Corporate Partner Award: Flushing Bank
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Betsy Gulotta, Founder and Conservation Project Manager Emerita, Friends of Hempstead Plains at Nassau Community College - the non-profit dedicated to the preservation and conservation of this historically important piece of Long Island land, the last remnant of the Hempstead Plains.