Brown Family Environmental Center Calendar

Join Sabrina Schirtzinger, agriculture and natural resources educator at the OSU Extension Office, to learn the differences between plants and how to safely control them.

Discover fascinating facts about bats and discuss how they may even provide the answer to solving cancer. Each family will make and take their own bat house.

During Reunion Weekend, celebrate 30 years of the Brown Family Environmental Center, 25 years of the Philander Chase Conservancy and 30 years of Knox County Parks with a guided tour of the newest BFEC-managed parcel.

Shawn Dailey will demonstrate multiple friction fire methods using a variety of local materials, followed by a workshop where participants can learn firsthand.

Use your Monday lunch break to de-stress with an outdoor yoga class. This free class is open to all ages.

Use your Monday lunch break to de-stress with an outdoor yoga class. This free class is open to all ages.

Learn more about stream quality monitoring and discover the aquatic critters that populate our streams and how they help determine water quality of Ohio’s rivers.  

Join the BFEC for a fun, hands-on adventure to explore how nature changes over time. Learn how ecosystems grow from bare fields to buzzing habitats, identifying different stages of growth along the way. Families and adults welcome.

Use your Monday lunch break to de-stress with an outdoor yoga class. This free class is open to all ages.

Join the BFEC for our yearly Plein Air (outdoor painting) workshops. This summer’s theme is “Card Club.” Pre-registration is required.

Use your Monday lunch break to de-stress with an outdoor yoga class. This free class is open to all ages.

Join the Brown Family Environmental Center, the Philander Chase Conservancy and the Knox County Parks District to mark the grand opening of the BFEC's North Trail System, Yauger Road Entrance.

Use your Monday lunch break to de-stress with an outdoor yoga class. This free class is open to all ages.

Join BFEC Director Noelle Jordan for a guided hike of two of the oldest trails at the BFEC. We’ll enjoy these moderate trails (some hills) and discuss how the landscape in this area has evolved since the early 1990s.

Use your Monday lunch break to de-stress with an outdoor yoga class. This free class is open to all ages.

Join the BFEC for our yearly Plein Air (outdoor painting) workshops. This summer’s theme is “Card Club.” Pre-registration is required.

Immerse yourself in a relaxing, transcendent experience of vibration and sound with Dr. Allan Bazzoli, M.D.

Immerse yourself in a relaxing, transcendent experience of vibration and sound with Dr. Allan Bazzoli, M.D.

Use your Monday lunch break to de-stress with an outdoor yoga class. This free class is open to all ages.

Use your Monday lunch break to de-stress with an outdoor yoga class. This free class is open to all ages.