Events

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.

Celebrate Earth Day by transforming trash into art! Inspired by Joan Jonas’s multimedia installation "Rivers to the Abyssal Plains," this workshop explores how art fosters a deeper connection to the natural world. Bring disposable paper, packaging, fabric or plastic; additional collage materials will be provided.

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.

Join Philander Chase Conservancy staff for a birding walk at the Kokosing Nature Preserve. Bird ID pamphlets will be provided. Please bring your own binoculars and dress for the weather.

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.

Stop by from 2 - 5 p.m. to enjoy a leisurely stroll, learn more about green burial, and take home a native plant of your own.

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.

During Reunion Weekend, join the Director of the Philander Chase Conservancy, Amy Henricksen, and the Green Burial Coordinator at Kokosing Nature Preserve, Samantha Bartram, for a walk around Kenyon’s natural burial cemetery.

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.

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

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.

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

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