Brown Family Environmental Center Calendar

Join the BFEC for the annual Keep it Wild! Earth Day festival. The free event will feature visiting mammals, bugs and birds of prey as well as activities for children, food trucks, live music and environmentally-focused vendors and organizations.

Cutleaf Toothwort, Trout Lily, Golden Alexander, Enchanter’s Nightshade, Miami Mist, Corn Salad. What do these names have in common? They are just some of the wildflowers that can be enjoyed at nature preserves around Knox County. Miriam Dean-Otting, BFEC volunteer naturalist, will guide us in finding spring wildflowers here at the BFEC. Meet at the picnic shelter.

Join us for a hands-on volunteer event to remove invasive plants and support the biodiversity (and overall health) of BFEC ecosystems. No experience needed; all ages welcome.

To discover how frogs catch their prey, survive seasonal changes, and more, join us at the BFEC for a fun morning of pond play.

Chipmunks and squirrels have incredible adaptations that allow them to find and store food. They also play a role in supporting our ecosystems. Discover similarities and differences between chipmunks and squirrels.

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.

Ants have been around eons. During this program, we will explore how these insects survive in our modern world.

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.

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.  

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.