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Posts by Coggin Heeringa
What’s Happening: A Flowing Big Creek
With the school year winding down and the summer season beginning, things are changing at Crossroads at Big Creek. We no longer are hosting school field trips, but we are…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: Connecting to Nature
Suddenly, it’s summertime. So at Crossroads, much of our programming moves outside. Similarly, our partnering organizations, the Door County Master Gardeners Association and Wild Ones-Door Peninsula discontinue lectures during the…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: A Start to Summer
Memorial Day Weekend is considered by many to be the beginning of Summer. For us at Crossroads, it means the school year is winding down, and we enter a different…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: Flowers, Hikes, and Pop-ups
When you check the Events Calendar on the Crossroads at Big Creek website (and we hope you do frequently), it looks like things slowing down at Crossroads. Looks can be deceiving!…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: A Dark Sky and Fungi
This week at Crossroads, our public programs focus on under-appreciated, but essential components of our environment: biodiversity, fungi and dark skies. On Saturday, May 11, the Crossroads Habitat Healers will…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: Trees and Bees
In Wisconsin, Arbor Day is April 26, but many states observe Arbor Day on different dates according to their best tree-planting times. At Crossroads, we continue to celebrate Earth Day…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: The Shaping of Seasons
At Crossroads at Big Creek, we are celebrating the predictable progression of the seasons. “The boom and bust of the seasons has produced much variation in animal and plant life…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: Pike and Suckers
April Showers bring May flowers, and at Crossroads at Big Creek, April showers bring fish! and the final session of the 2024 FISH TALES LECTURE SERIES…Presenting the Science of Great…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: Eclipses
This week, the people of Door County will experience a partial solar eclipse so the Door Peninsula Astronomical Society will open the Astronomy Campus on Monday, April 8 from 12:30…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: EGGciting Activities
The EGGStravaganza will again take place at Crossroads at Big Creek on Saturday, March 21 at 2:00pm. Understand that this is NOT an Easter Egg Hunt, but rather a special…
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