June 2026 By Kat Resanovich, Volunteer Coordinator & Educator Volunteer Nancy Bronstein helping a student search their net for creatures Every spring, our preserve comes alive almost every weekday morning with the sound of excited, curious, and sometimes nervous students arriving for a field trip. This year, our education staff had some extra [...]
May 2026 By Kat Resanovich, Volunteer Coordinator & Educator Volunteers Sue Jones, Taryn Jirousek, and Pat Dailey with Executive Directory, Whitney Lash Marshall on Mother’s Day As a non-profit nature center, fundraising is an essential part of our organization and what helps us be able to maintain our preserve, put on educational [...]
April 2026 By Kat Resanovich, Volunteer Coordinator & Educator Early summer blooms in the Faust Garden This time of year, one of the most exciting sights in the woods is spring wildflowers. This time of year, the forest floor comes alive with new blooms every week. One of the best places on the [...]
March 2026 By Kat Resanovich, Volunteer Coordinator & Educator Maple sugaring season is one of the most magical, but also temperamental times of year in New York! We had an amazing crew of volunteers that helped us make maple syrup this year in sunny weather, snow, rain, and everything in between. At Baltimore Woods, it’s [...]
February 2026 By Kat Resanovich, Volunteer Coordinator & Educator Volunteer, George Spak teaching volunteers about pale swallow wort at a volunteer lunch For this month’s volunteer spotlight, we are focusing on one of our favorite Baltimore Woods traditions; our monthly volunteer appreciation lunches! As a way to say thank you to our volunteers [...]
January 2026 By Kat Resanovich, Volunteer Coordinator & Educator Our annual meeting in January is always an exciting time for us to look back at the work we’ve accomplished in the past year as an organization, and share some of our plans for the coming year. It’s also when we elect new Board members and [...]
December 2025 By Kat Resanovich, Volunteer Coordinator & Educator Thank you to all of the amazing volunteers who were a part of the volunteer community in 2025! It has been an amazing year for volunteering at Baltimore Woods. This year we had over 300 individual volunteers that came to our preserve to donate their time, [...]
November 2025 By Kat Resanovich, Volunteer Coordinator & Educator Now that we’ve had our first couple of snow days this Winter, it’s time for a volunteer spotlight that focuses on all of the volunteers who help us manage the snow around our property. Did you know that every time it snows, volunteers help us remove [...]
Check out this video from 2023 of our team of volunteers working on replacing culverts at Baltimore Woods! https://vimeo.com/872178627?share=copy
October 2025 By Kat Resanovich, Volunteer Coordinator & Educator In October, we hosted our annual Autumnal Fairy Festival. The event was a huge success, thanks to the many volunteers that helped us make it possible. This year, we had 36 volunteers helping at the event, which is one of our largest groups ever! From helping [...]
