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June 2021
Lavender Harvest Days
$8
Lavender Harvest Days! Head to Purple Rain Lavender Farm in Churchville for a a wagon ride to the field, shopping, lavender sweets and treats, and great fun with beautiful scenery. Buy your tickets in advance. Tickets will also be available at the entrance. Weather dependent but if it rains tickets can be used on a different date.
Find out more »Craft Corral | Paper Plate Veggie Garden
$5
Join friends at the Baltimore Ag Center/Maryland Farm Park for a fun summer craft! Kids of all ages are welcome! Registration is required. Email baltcoagcenter@baltimorecountymd.gov. This week, they're making a paper plate veggie garden. Cost $5
Find out more »Fire & Ice Night Hike
Ages 8+. Fireflies are a natural joy of summer. Learn about fireflies and their flash patterns before searching and recording them in our park. The fun doesn't end here – return to the Willow Grove Nature Center to enjoy an ice cream sandwich and share citizen scientist discoveries. Both adults and children must register for this event. Limited to 20.
Find out more »Holt Park Cleanup Day
Free
Looking to do a little good as a family? Head to Holt Park and help them with gardening and light trail maintenance. Please bring gloves and a water bottle. Pre-registration encouraged but not required. (Free, all ages)
Find out more »Hayride at Maryland Farm Park
Free
Take a guided hayride around the farm to meet the animals! All Ages. Free!
Find out more »Lavender Fields Opening Weekend at C. N. Flower & Grain Farm
$5
Enjoy over an acre of lavender fields a C. N. Flower & Grain Farm in White Hall. On Saturday, order food from Old McDonald Had a Food Truck and Inverness Brewing. Pick and Cut lavender flowers, walk along the wild flower trail and enjoy assorted lavender products for sale! $5/adult. Kids are free!
Find out more »Kayak the Creek
$5 – $7
Join a naturalist and explore Dundee Creek in Marshy Point's new kayaks! $7/person or $5/member. For ages 8 and older. Space is limited and registration is required.
Find out more »River Romp!
$6
Celebrate summer by cooling off at the nature center with activities down at the Middle Patuxent River! Bring your own non-perishable picnic and join a Robinson Naturalist at the river for lunch and fun, family-friendly river games. Search for wildlife and construct mini-boats to float downstream! Come dressed to get wet. You'll wade in the river and recommend closed-toed water shoes. Online registration not available; please call 410-313-0400 to register. All ages! $6 per person.
Find out more »Buzz with Bees!
$10
Celebrate National pollinator week by learning about the importance of these fuzzy pollinators. Explore the diverse lives of our most common native bees and how to identify them using specimens. Then try your hand at field identification on flowers around Irvine. Ages 5 and up.
Find out more »Summer Morning Stroll
Free – $3
Take in the sights and sounds of the park in the morning on this gentle morning stroll. Learn a little about the park history and the seasonal happenings in the park from a park naturalist. Register for one, two or all three dates as this even happens the fourth Sunday of the month all summer long. All ages. $3 per person (FREE for ORNCC Members). Register via email at info@OregonRidgeNatureCenter.org
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