• Rooted in Time: Celebrating Trees Across Cultures – Tree Week Event

    Forestry Outreach Center 2047 Big Hill Rd., Berea, KY, United States

    Join us for an afternoon of celebrating with: Outdoor performance featuring 13 ft. tall puppet Granny Chestnut Art exhibit celebrating stories about trees from around the world Crafts and costumes Great for all ages! In case of rain we will be inside the Forestry Outreach Center building! Thanks Berea College Art in Action!

  • Cyanotype Printmaking — Tree Week Event

    Forestry Outreach Center 2047 Big Hill Rd., Berea, KY, United States

    Come join us at the Forestry Outreach to do Cyanotypes! Cyanotypes are a photographic printing process using the sun's light to create a negative image. Great for all ages. Cyanotype chemical & paper provided. If you'd like to print on something other than watercolor paper, please bring materials like linen or cotton and plan to …

  • Family Activity: Spiders!

    Forestry Outreach Center 2047 Big Hill Rd., Berea, KY, United States

    Learn about the amazing world of spiders. Make your own spider and craft a web it can call home.  Though scary to many, spiders are an essential part of our ecosystem, helping to support food webs and control insect (like mosquito!) populations. Geared towards elementary ages but all welcome.  

  • Nature R&R/Forest Bathing at Anglin Falls

    Forestry Outreach Center 2047 Big Hill Rd., Berea, KY, United States

    Email Wendy at warrenw@berea.edu to sign up. We will meet at the Forestry Outreach Center first and caravan to Anglin Falls. We live in an age where stressors are all around us–and hope sometimes seems hard to come by. Research is increasingly describing what our bodies need: time together in the natural world we are …

  • Forest Meditations

    Forestry Outreach Center 2047 Big Hill Rd., Berea, KY, United States

    Come join us for Forest Meditations. This is an opportunity to connect with ourselves, each other, and the forest. All are welcome. Meet at the Forestry Outreach Center. We will be outdoors in the Nature's Classroom gazebo when the weather is nice!

  • Whimsical Woods Series: The Moss People

    Forestry Outreach Center 2047 Big Hill Rd., Berea, KY, United States

    The Moss People: Learn about the Moss People of old German folklore and make your own nature-inspired moss person to take home.  In Room #138 at the Richmond branch of the Madison County Public Library.

  • Group Hike at the Pinnacles

    Forestry Outreach Center 2047 Big Hill Rd., Berea, KY, United States

    Have you explored all of the Berea College Forest? Maybe you have but you’d like to learn more while you do? Join us for a group hike every Saturday to …

  • Pumpkin Carving

    Forestry Outreach Center 2047 Big Hill Rd., Berea, KY, United States

    Bring your pumpkin-carving skills and personalize your very own Jack O’ Lantern to add to your Halloween décor.  There will be limited supply of pumpkins--first come-first served!

  • Sunset Hike

    Join us to enjoy a sunset at the Bluegrass Overlook! We will meet at the Center at 5:15pm to make it to the top before sundown. Please bring a flashlight/headlamp …

  • Hands-on Inquiry Hike, ages 12+

    Forestry Outreach Center 2047 Big Hill Rd., Berea, KY, United States

    We will hike up to the Bluegrass Overlook while developing an inquiry question and learn how to begin exploring that question. Geared towards homeschoolers, middle/high school ages. *Not a drop-off program *Cancelled in case of inclement weather

  • Forest Meditations

    Forestry Outreach Center 2047 Big Hill Rd., Berea, KY, United States

    Come join us for Forest Meditations. This is an opportunity to connect with ourselves, each other, and the forest. All are welcome. Meet at the Forestry Outreach Center. We will be outdoors in the Nature's Classroom gazebo when the weather is nice!

  • Halloween Group Hike

    Forestry Outreach Center 2047 Big Hill Rd., Berea, KY, United States

    What better place to get a great photo of your Halloween costume than at the top of a Pinnacle? Celebrate Halloween by joining the 1:00pm group hike and maybe get …