Eagle Scout Adds Butterfly Garden

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Edible Park Kicks Off!

Mayor John Rowe (center) helped plant the first native blueberries on Sept. 24, 2018 to launch an Edible Park project at Paradise Creek Nature Park. Thank you, Healthy Portsmouth and Portsmouth Health Dept.!

Free public foraging starting 2019 as more than 200 native edible plants mature.

For more, email Kat Fish at kfish@elizabethriver.org.

Park's First Campers!

Thanks to our new Fred W. Beazley River Academy, we just finished our first summer camp in “Paradise.” Special thanks to sponsors Dominion Energy, Frank and Aimee Batten and Dr. Mack Bonner.

Watch Dominion’s video

Park Picked for Butterfly Study

A William and Mary student has chosen the park’s 11-acre marsh to study the tiny “salt marsh skipper,” a small brown butterfly that breeds exclusively in marshlands. Keep your eyes peeled this summer for researcher Sam Mason and his subject.

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Eagle Scout Adds Butterfly Garden