Low-Maintenance Gardening
Learn how to create a low-maintenance garden featuring native plants that you can enjoy even beyond this season – and leave with a planted seed to begin your adventure.
Trowel and Error: Planning for Garden Success
Start seeds and discuss different gardening methods as we get your garden off on the right foot.
Planting Ahead for a Vegetable Garden
Learn how to start your own garden this spring!
Herb Gardening for the Body and Soul
Join an environmental educator at Baltimore Woods Nature Center to learn more about gardening. Participants will also get to make their own herb balm.
Circle of Sustainability: Recycling and Composting Workshop
In this recycling and sustainability workshop we will investigate the small yet important steps to soften our environmental footprint.
Combat Winter Blues with Houseplants
Houseplants help brighten up our homes on even the darkest of winter days. Join us as we learn about different types of plants that do well in a home along with tips on how to keep them thriving. We’ll also practice the process of creating new plants using leaf propagation and participants will get to take [...]
Exploring the Colors of Baltimore Woods
The preserve is home to vibrant plant and animal life that creates an intricate landscape hidden to many. Together, we'll uncover the colors that make Baltimore Woods so distinct through close observation and art. We will spend two hours immersed in The Woods and will use paints to record the incredible things we see. Let's [...]
Exploring the Back 40
John Weeks always referred to the northernmost fields and forests of Baltimore Woods as "the back 40." Come along for an exploration of this less-visited area to find the birds, plants, and ecosystems that make it special. This program includes a hike over gently rolling terrain and a couple of small hills. This program is for [...]
That’s Ferntastic!
Ferns, with their elegant fiddleheads and graceful fronds, have survived for millennia and fascinated people for generations. Take a walk with Naturalist Tom Meier to meet the ferns of Baltimore Woods and discover what makes these plants so "ferntastic". This program includes a moderate hike on hills and uneven trails. The program is for adults. [...]
Wildflowers in May
Every spring Baltimore Woods turns into a wonderland of spring wildflowers. Join us on a peaceful stroll through the Faust Garden and Harrison Trail to admire these fleeting beauties and ponder the ephemeral nature of spring and ourselves. This will be an easy walk along flat trails. This program is for adults who are interested in [...]