Miscellany

THE NEW York Botanical Garden presents “The Edible Garden,” a summer-long celebration of edible plants, now open through Sunday, Sept. 13. This attraction features multiple exhibitions that focus on the diversity, beauty and importance of food plants in people’s lives. One of the highlights will be “Martha Stewart’s Culinary Herb Garden,” a collection of the finest culinary herbs personally selected by Martha Stewart. This living spice rack display will include an assortment of more than 50 types of herbs from all around the world. Inside the Haupt Conservatory, there will be a showcase of “Tropical Fruits, Roots and Shoots,” featuring everyday favorites like coffee, coconut and cinnamon growing alongside passion fruit, tamarind and other more exotic fare. In addition, there will be several celebrity lectures and demonstrations, food tastings, activities for kids, tours and a weekly farmers market. The Garden is located on Fordham Road, just off Exit 7W of the Bronx River Parkway. For more details, go to www.nybg.org or call 718-817-8700.

THE AMERICAN Museum of Natural History, 81st Street and Central Park West, will present “A Night at the Museum,” its special overnight adventure and sleepover program, on select evenings throughout the summer. Upcoming dates on the schedule include Friday, July 10; Saturday, July 25; Friday, Aug. 7; and Friday, Aug. 21. This unique after-hours event, which begins at 5:45 p.m. and runs through 9 a.m. the next morning, features an IMAX film screening, an evening snack and light breakfast, a spooky flashlight fossil exploration and several other interactive activities. Guests will sleep either in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, under the 94-foot-long blue whale; next to the Alaskan Brown Bears in the Hall of North American Mammals; or at the base of a volcanic formation in the Hall of Planet Earth. This program is open to children ages 8 to 12 and chaperones that are 21 and older. Tickets cost $129 per person and they must be purchased in advance, as space is limited and dates sell out very quickly. Go to www.amnh.org/sleepovers or call 212-769-5200 for reservations.

This is part of the July 2, 2009 online edition of The Riverdale Press.

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