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Interpreting Our Internship Experience
Each year, five interns and one senior intern (the Education Fellow) join the Education Team for nine months to learn about and participate in educational and public programming at Cincinnati Nature Center. Our goal is

What's Stopping You From Planting Native
Spring has arrived! The smell of mulch fills the air on these warm spring Saturdays. Garden center parking lots are filling up with cars loaded with flats of Begonias, Geraniums, and Pansies. As I watched wagon loads of

The Power of Parents
By Melissa Sabo, School Programs Manager On a cold morning in early March several years ago, the Rowe Visitor Center was filled with excited second graders here for a field trip. As their introduction to the

One More Day
By Connie O’Connor, Education Director At the end of the year I participated in a silent meditation retreat on a rural farm. During breaks I would walk on their beautiful prairie trails, through second-growth

Why We Love Summer Camp
Why We Love Summer CampBy Eve Smallwood, Youth Program Manager and Camp DirectorAhh, winter. Trees are bare, there’s a nip in the air and animals are busy surviving the cold. It’s the perfect time to

Nature's Biggest Letter
By Jonathan Duerbeck, weekend naturalist "L! There's an L! Y. W!" Alexandra, age 4, was triumphantly pointing out alphabet letters in the woods. And by now, the capital letter I had become too