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Welty Fall Fest – Sunday Oct. 13
Bring the whole family out to Beckman Mill County Park for an afternoon of old-fashioned, outdoor fall fun! Included in your admission fee is making life-sized scarecrows, carving festive jack-o-lanterns, pressing fresh apple cider, making dried flower arrangements, and guided nature hikes through the oak savanna restoration, wetland boardwalk and woods trail.
Bakers are encouraged to bake a fruit or vegetable pie (no cream pies please) for judging. You could win a membership to the Friends of the Welty Environmental Center! Pies are sold by the piece after judging takes place at 12:30pm. Please bring a list of ingredients in your pie for people with food allergies.
Concessions will be available for sale at the event as well.
Register by: no registration
Limited to: no limit
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Food for the Brood – Bird Feeding Workshop
Is winter getting to be too long for your taste? Imagine how it is for the birds!
At this workshop we will go over basic identification tips you can use from your window to tell which bird is which.
We’ll also go over what feed attracts which birds, and make a simple feeder or two. Please bring an empty 2L plastic bottle.
Cost: $5.00 per person
Register by: Thursday, February 6th, 2014
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Maple Surgaring Mania
Enjoy an afternoon in the sugar grove learning about how maple syrup is made – from the tree to the table.
This hands-on session will look at the biology of maple trees, the history of maple sugaring, and the science and art of cooking sap into syrup. Of course, participants will all get to sample the real maple syrup!
This program is perfect for scouts, homeschool associations, other youth groups, or other adult groups.
Call to reserve your time early.
Cost: $5 per person
Register by: March 7 for 10th event. March 14 for 18th event
Limited to the first 30 participants each session.
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Maple Surgaring Mania
Enjoy an afternoon in the sugar grove learning about how maple syrup is made – from the tree to the table.
This hands-on session will look at the biology of maple trees, the history of maple sugaring, and the science and art of cooking sap into syrup. Of course, participants will all get to sample the real maple syrup!
This program is perfect for scouts, homeschool associations, other youth groups, or other adult groups.
Call to reserve your time early.
Cost: $5 per person
Register by: March 7 for 10th event. March 14 for 18th event
Limited to the first 30 participants each session.
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Scrap Metal Drive
Bring all the old metal items you find while spring cleaning.
Volunteers will unload your car, truck or trailer and recycle your metal. Accepted items include:
- wire
- fencing
- grills
- bicycles
- barrels
- appliances and more.
Your donation of scrap metal be recycled to make new, useful items and keep thousands of pounds of materials out of the landfill. Also, money raised will fund environmental education programs in the Stateline area.
Sorry, we are not able to accept electronic items or items with Freon.
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