Fall Garden & Natural Lands Tours

Thu, October 24, 9:45am - 2pm
fall colors, gardens, hayride

Field Experiences Field Trips Open to the Public Tours

The foundation stock for those native plants purchased from your favorite garden store originated from wild seeds. Those seeds had to be gathered, propagated, and cultivated into plants ready for sale. How did this process begin? Look to Mt. Cuba Center for the answer. Native plant conservation has been their specialty for over fifty years. […]

Cost: $32-37

Explore the C&O Canal at Great Falls: Saturday Only Option

Sat, October 26, 9am - 1pm

Photo by Roy Sewall

Field Experiences Field Trips Open to the Public

Discover the history and natural beauty of the C&O Canal on this field trip to the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park. The C&O Canal was a lifeline for communities for almost 100 years as coal, lumber, and agricultural products were floated down the 185-mile-long waterway to market. The canal was built to connect […]

Cost: $35-45

Leafy Tree ID with Nick Spero

Sun, October 27, 9am - 12pm
tree ID, tree identification

Photo by Treehugger

Field Experiences

Sixty types of native trees live in Maryland. Identifying deciduous ones can be tricky, even when using both leaves and bark as guides. Let’s learn how to look for the subtle differences in leaf structure and bark texture for the first level in this two-part series with tree expert Nick Spero. We will take it […]

Cost: $15-35

Big Trees of Carroll County Driving Tour

Wed, October 30, 10am - 3pm
big trees, tree ID, trees

Field Experiences Open to the Public

Have you admired a tree while thinking that’s “a big one”? Meet the biggest trees of Carroll County on a guided driving tour with Geary Schwemmer, head of the county’s Big Tree Program. Our eight stops will include a variety of big trees such as the third largest tree in Maryland, the Hoover Sycamore; a […]

Cost: $15-20

Fall Mushroom Hunt, November

Fri, November 1, 10am - 12pm
fall walk, fungi, hike, mushrooms

Field Experiences Field Trips Open to the Public

Turkey Tail, Chicken of the Woods, and Scrambled Egg Slime. We aren’t talking poultry here. Get your camera out rather than your deep-fryer, and join us for our fall mushroom hunt with master mycologist William Needham. Let’s wander the trails to search for fungi that catch our eyes with unique coloring or gill placement and […]

Cost: $15-20

Bare Tree ID with Nick Spero

Sun, November 17, 9am - 12pm
tree ID, trees, winter hike

Field Experiences Field Trips Open to the Public

Identifying deciduous trees without leaves as a reference can be a challenge, even to the expert. Relying on bark and tree shape, let’s look for those subtle differences with tree expert Nick Spero. For the second of this two-part series, we will take it up a notch from our first outing (Oct 27), where we […]

Cost: $15-35