2.5 Structures for Environmental Learning
Summary
1. Children's Garden
2. Outdoor classroom
3. Outdoor art installations
2. Outdoor classroom
3. Outdoor art installations
1. Children's Garden
Our half-acre Children's Garden supports our educational, interpretive, and recreational programs relating to agriculture and nature. We took a half-acre of fertile Baltimore County parkland and added a pond, a shed, and compost bins; built the essential deer-proof fence; and mixed in hundreds of hours of volunteer time. What do we have? A beautiful and bountiful focal point for learning and recreation. School groups come to plant vegetables in the spring. Families come all season long to learn how to grow vegetables and how to support native wildlife with plants. Summer camp kids monitor the butterflies and birds attracted to the native plant beds and the frogs that live in the pond. Casual visitors learn from and enjoy the interpretive signs, gorgeous views, and the peaceful atmosphere of the garden.
Our half-acre Children's Garden supports our educational, interpretive, and recreational programs relating to agriculture and nature. We took a half-acre of fertile Baltimore County parkland and added a pond, a shed, and compost bins; built the essential deer-proof fence; and mixed in hundreds of hours of volunteer time. What do we have? A beautiful and bountiful focal point for learning and recreation. School groups come to plant vegetables in the spring. Families come all season long to learn how to grow vegetables and how to support native wildlife with plants. Summer camp kids monitor the butterflies and birds attracted to the native plant beds and the frogs that live in the pond. Casual visitors learn from and enjoy the interpretive signs, gorgeous views, and the peaceful atmosphere of the garden.
Sometimes, the only "structure" you need is some good soil! Members of the Children's Garden Club hoist their harvest with pride! August 2018
2. Outdoor classroom
Nestled in the woods a short hike from our Nature Center, the outdoor classroom is used as a starting point for insect and habitat exploration field trips. It is also used extensively for summer camp and the Polliwog preschool program.
3. Outdoor Art Installations
July 2017
Ranger Mimi leads the summer campers in creating beautiful outdoor art installations each year. Shown here, campers added to the beauty of the woods by stringing homemade wreaths between trees and weaving with natural materials.
July 2017
Ranger Mimi leads the summer campers in creating beautiful outdoor art installations each year. Shown here, campers added to the beauty of the woods by stringing homemade wreaths between trees and weaving with natural materials.