🗓️ Date: Saturday, April 25, 2026

⏰ Time: 9 am - 1 pm

📍 Location: 2 Robert T Martinez Jr St, Austin, TX 78702

💚 Donation: Free ($5 Suggested donation for Blocks)

We will be Holly Shores for the Bioblitz for City Nature Challenge. Andrea will be there to help identify lichens and mushrooms and we will also have mushroom blocks for you to take home to get your gardens mulched and decomposing to make fungal-rich soil.

Mushroom blocks are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Create Your Own BioBlitz

Anyone can participate individually or put together a bioblitz in your neighborhood or own backyard. Choose a park in your neighborhood and then meeting up with outdoor enthusiasts and showing them how to ID flora, fauna and funga using the iNaturalist app! We will be competing against other cities to photograph and observe biodivesity. Download the app and check out this page on how to use.

About City Nature Challenge

Started in 2016 as a competition between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the City Nature Challenge (CNC) has grown into an international event, motivating people around the world to find and document wildlife in their own cities. Run by the Community Science teams at the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM), the CNC is an annual four-day global bioblitz at the end of April, where cities are in a collaboration-meets-friendly-competition to see what can be accomplished when we all work toward a common goal.

Become a supporting member to get discounts on walks, talks, workshops and merch.Want to help out?

Volunteer and sign-up here to pick-up blocks from the farms in Buda or North Austin to deliver to future events and pick-up spots.