We will be setting up an historical weather station at the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site featuring a number of antique and replica weather instruments dating from the early to mid-nineteenth century through to the early to mid-twentieth century. The...
The Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program will be offering its second Butterfly and Native Plant Garden Open House of the summer on Saturday, July 15, from 10am to 4pm, and a concurrent Gardening with Native Plants workshop (10am-noon) and Exploring Columbia...
The Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program will lead an exploration of plants and insects in the meadows of a former working orchard. This site includes approximately 80 acres of open fields now managed to support native biodiversity. During the walk we’ll...
Weather permitting, this will be an opportunity to help the Farmscape Ecology Program collect seeds from native wildflowers around Hawthorne Valley Farm. Help us build our seed bank and take home seeds! Throughout the morning, botany intern Elena Kubicek will be on...
Photography is one of our favorite ways to document our adventures and share our appreciation for nature (for example, in FEP’s Wonder Wanders on Facebook and in the blog Progress of the Seasons Journal). Have you ever wondered how our photographs are made, or wanted...
