- A light blanket of snow covers the preserve. Open water and birds in The Cove Estuary.
Posts Tagged ‘pollinators’
Looking Ahead: Gathering In
While regularly scheduled classes and activities are taking place at Crossroads this week, it almost seems like a pause. We are done with the frenzy of the growing season and…
Read MoreLooking Ahead: Leaf Litter & Leaf Cover
At Crossroads, we are observing the plants and animals as they make their final preparations for winter, and we humans are preparing for the snowy season as well. But fall landscape work…
Read MoreLooking Ahead: A Decade of Digging
If you are picturing “Indiana Jones,” or long to help reveal mosaics at Pompeii, or enter secret crypts below cathedrals, the Archaeological Dig at Crossroads’ Cove Estuary Preserve may not…
Read MoreLooking Ahead: Seeps, Creeks and Skies
“Where Waters Meet” is the 2023 educational theme of Crossroads at Big Creek. The phrase describes our preserve, where the waters of the Big Creek Watershed flow into The Cove…
Read MoreLooking Ahead: Last Days of Summer
Labor Day has become the traditional, though often not the meteorological, last day of summer. It became a holiday in 1882 to celebrate the success of the labor movement, but it has become a special…
Read MorePollinator Pals
If you like to garden and are interested in giving our native pollinators a helping hand, Crossroads at Big Creek could use your help! On Thursday mornings from 8:30 –…
Read MorePollinator Pals: Planting Day!
Thursday, September 21 is Planting Day at Crossroads! This seems like a rather odd announcement since, during the past three growing seasons, we have planted about 4,000 trees and shrubs…
Read MorePollinator Pals
If you like to garden and are interested in giving our native pollinators a helping hand, Crossroads at Big Creek could use your help! On Thursday mornings from 8:30 –…
Read MorePollinator Pals
If you like to garden and are interested in giving our native pollinators a helping hand, Crossroads at Big Creek could use your help! On Thursday mornings from 8:30 –…
Read MoreLooking Ahead: Cross-Pollination & Jumping Worms
Cross-pollination is important to many plants, and organizational cross-pollination is important, too. It enables Crossroads to host two special programs this week. Wild Ones of the Door Peninsula, the Door…
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