Events

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.