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Sheldrake’s Fall Festival

October 16, 2016 from 1pm to 4pm – SHELDRAKE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER This year’s highlights: Doggie costume contest Learn how to build a bug house or fairy house Naturalist-led activities Live music Face painting Bake sale StoryWalk™ Compost education and bin sale An… Organized by Sheldrake Environmental Center | Type: family, event, festival

Families on the Frontier

November 19, 2016 from 1pm to 3pm – Aldo Leopold Nature Center Celebrate fall and the harvest season by going back in time to a world much different than today! We’ll visit the Children’s Shack to do pioneer chores and play games, churn butter, sing songs, and l… Organized by Creal Zearing | Type: family, friendly, festival
Families on the Frontier

November 19, 2016 from 1pm to 3pm – Aldo Leopold Nature Center Celebrate fall and the harvest season by going back in time to a world much different than today! We’ll visit the Children’s Shack to do pioneer chores and play games, churn butter, sing songs, and l… Organized by Creal Zearing | Type: family, friendly, festival
Families on the Frontier

November 19, 2016 from 1pm to 3pm – Aldo Leopold Nature Center Celebrate fall and the harvest season by going back in time to a world much different than today! We’ll visit the Children’s Shack to do pioneer chores and play games, churn butter, sing songs, and l… Organized by Creal Zearing | Type: family, friendly, festival
Families on the Frontier

November 19, 2016 from 1pm to 3pm – Aldo Leopold Nature Center Celebrate fall and the harvest season by going back in time to a world much different than today! We’ll visit the Children’s Shack to do pioneer chores and play games, churn butter, sing songs, and l… Organized by Creal Zearing | Type: family, friendly, festival

Maple Syrup Fest

March 26, 2017 from 1pm to 4pm – Aldo Leopold Nature Center Celebrate the spring with Maple Syrup Fest—a family-style festival at the Aldo Leopold Nature Center! Featuring stations set throughout the nature center grounds, visitors will take a trip, at their… Organized by | Type: family, friendly, festival

WINTER RAPTOR FEST 2017

May 13, 2017 from 10am to 4pm – Washington County Fairgrounds SEE Exciting NEW Live Bird of Prey programs and demos featuring some of our most majestic raptors in flight! LEARN about endangered Short-eared Owls, threatened Northern Harriers, Bald Eagles, Snowy… Organized by Laurie LaFond | Type: raptor, education, and, live, birds, of, prey, festival

WINTER RAPTOR FEST 2017

May 14, 2017 from 11am to 4pm – Washington County Fairgrounds SEE Live owls, hawks and falcons in flight! MEET the birds up close! LEARN about endangered Short-eared Owls and dozens of other owls, hawks and falcons!! NEW for 2017: WILD ENCOUNTER, Birding Trail… Organized by Laurie LaFond | Type: raptor, education, and, live, birds, of, prey, festival

Autumn with the Animals

September 17, 2017 from 11am to 4pm – Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge There will be fun for everyone at the much-anticipated Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge Autumn with the Animals festival, an annual family tradition at the Medford non-profit. Children and adults o… Organized by Penney Busichio | Type: festival

Fall Fest

October 27, 2017 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm – Aldo Leopold Nature Center Join us at Fall Fest and celebrate “Creature of the Night” – the Aldo Leopold Nature Center’s annual funfilled night of spooky activities in not-so-scary style! With activities indoors and out, there… Organized by Aldo Leopold Nature Center | Type: community event, holiday event, festival, kids and family, nature and outdoors, outdoor event, madison event, monona event