Native Plant Sale
View catalogs for our Native Plant Sale and plan your gardens now. Online ordering will begin on April 1st!
Run Wild!
Run Wild on the trails at TWC! Celebrate Earth Day with a 10K, 5K or One Mile Fun Run – organized with special safety precautions.
Nature Staycation
Add some extra fun to your family’s spring break! These activities will keep your kids busy exploring the outdoors.
Backyard Habitat Initiative
Learn how your actions at home can build complex food webs, protect watersheds, connect fragmented habitats and store carbon.
Your Wild Classroom
Enhance your elementary student’s natural science studies with monthly courses that will get your child outside – observing, studying, and learning.
Consulting Forestry
TWC Consulting Forestry is a professional consulting business that provides complete forest management and timber services for private landowners.
Foxfield Preserve
Foxfield Preserve is a conservation burial ground operated by The Wilderness Center, offering a beautiful resting place and a meaningful legacy.
Calendar & Upcoming Events
A Jack-in-the-Box, flower edition!
The Jack in the Pulpit is a perennial plant whose name derives from how the flower appears to have a person in a pulpit! This plant’s primary pollinators are fungus gnats drawn to the fungus-like scent that the plant gives off. Jack in the Pulpits are spring ephemerals, so they have short spring-flowering periods (April to June). But if you miss them in flower, fear not!, they also have flashy bright red fruits they ripen in late summer.
#backyardbiodiversity #nativeplantmonth
Photo source: www.gardenia.net/plant/arisaema-triphyllum
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!
TWC is seeking volunteers to help with our Tree-of-Life planting on Saturday, April 24th. Celebrate Earth Day by helping us plant trees dedicated during 2019 and 2020. We will meet at 9:00 am. Come on out whether you just want to plant a few saplings or help out with planting until we’re done. For more information you can contact Gary at (330) 359-5235 or gary@wildernesscenter.org.
#treeoflife #planttrees #earthday
Squirrels need their vegetables too!
Squirrel Corn is closely related to a garden favorite, Bleeding Heart, and both plants have uniquely shaped flowers that bloom from April to May. Squirrel Corn’s roots have nodules that resemble little corn on the cob kernels, hence its name. This plant’s primary pollinators are queen bumblebees because only queen bees are strong enough to prey open their unique petals to get to the nectar and pollen. True to their name, Squirrel Corn plants can also attract squirrels and other small rodents like mice and chipmunks when they bloom!
#backyardbiodiversity #nativeplantmonth
Do you want some lox, next to a fox, near some Wild Blue Phlox?
Wild Blue Phlox is a fragrant perennial plant found across the Midwest in woods and fields. This charismatic delicate plant has charming small flowers that look like the quintessential cartoon flower. In this plant’s eastern range, petals are notched, but petals are wider and not notched in the plant’s western range. Wild Blue Phlox provides many ecosystem services to other organisms such as rabbits, voles, and other small mammals that eat the roots and insect pollinators such as butterflies and bees that drink up the nectar.
#backyardbiodiversity #nativeplantmonth
Information: www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=PHDI5
Photo source: williambritten.com/wordpress/wildflowers/smoky-mountains-wildflowers-blue-phlox/
April is environmental educator month- and today our very own Robin Gill was highlighted as an outstanding educator by the Environmental Education Council of Ohio. Congratulations, Robin!During the month of April we will be highlighting Environmental Education Professionals. If you know of an #EE provider that we should highlight send info to director@eeco-online.org.
Today is Robin Gill! Robin is the Astronomy Education Specialist at The Wilderness Center. She is passionate about making astronomy and a love of the night sky accessible to all ages. Robin also runs the Dark Sky Initiative, helping us all to conserve our astronomy heritage. As Robin says – “ The Night Sky is Wilderness, too”
www.wildernesscenter.org/
#EE #EEcareers #getoutside #createsafespaces #inthistogether #natureismyhappyplace
