Jazz in the Garden with High Caliber
Oct. 3, 11:30 a.m./FREE Join us for jazz on an autumn afternoon in the Bob & Janine Grossman Amphitheater. Bring your own lunch and enjoy a relaxing picnic in the John L. Clark Native Plant Garden while listening to a jazz quintet, High Caliber, playing...
Jazz in the Garden with High Caliber
Oct. 3, 11:30 a.m./FREE Join us for jazz on an autumn afternoon in the Bob & Janine Grossman Amphitheater. Bring your own lunch and enjoy a relaxing picnic in the John L. Clark Native Plant Garden while listening to a jazz quintet, High Caliber, playing...
Historic Farmhouse Tours
Sept. 26/10 & 11 a.m./Free The Brown family farmhouse is a time capsule of architecture and family history. Join members of the Howard County Conservancy’s history team for a tour of the 1800s farmhouse and learn about the history of Mt. Pleasant! Space is...
Fall Equinox Hike and Campfire
Sept. 23, 5 to 7 p.m./$ Walk along Conservancy trails to the woodland campfire ring as the birds sing their evening songs. Gather ’round the crackling fire for legends, songs and activities about the equinox, then roast marshmallows and enjoy s’mores. Stroll...Nature center & offices closed Sept. 5, 6 & 7th. Grounds open and free, sunrise to sunset.
Spotted at the Conservancy: Slime mold
Nope, it’s not Christmas in July. Though these blobs look like snow or frost, this slime mold, shot by Bonnie Ott last July, likes it hot and damp. Slime molds are beneficial species that decompose wood and feed insects. Some molds even contain compounds that...
Volunteer Spotlight: Mary Schiller
Mary Schiller grew up on the Chesapeake Bay and always knew that when she finished her career in the schools and with the telephone company, she wanted to volunteer to help the environment. “I always joked that when I retired I would go pick trash out of the bay, but...
What Does the Fox Say?
Aug. 27, 7 p.m./$ What does the fox say? And why? Learn about fox noises and adaptations, the engineering skills of beavers and the survival strategies of America’s lone marsupial, the opossum. The lives, habits and importance of all these mammals, known as...