With summer over it’s time for a little fall cleaning! The WNC Nature Center has partnered with AmeriCorps to celebrate Take A Child Outside Week, which runs from September 24 through September 30. In honor of this program, we’re hosting a service event from 9:30 a.m. to noon Sept. 24 (Saturday). Kids in grades K-8 are [...]
Celebrate fall with the 40th annual Hey Day fall family festival at the WNC Nature Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. October 8. Hey Day is the largest WNC Nature Center event of the year and celebrates the wildlife, culture and community of Western North Carolina. This year’s festival will feature games, arts and crafts, educational [...]
With temperatures hovering around the 30’s and occasional snow flurries blowing around the city, it may be up to Nibbles the Groundhog to give Asheville the good news it needs. The piliferous prognosticator has been predicting the arrival (or delay) of spring in Asheville for the past eight years. From her home at the WNC Nature [...]
The word everyone was waiting for came out of the WNC Nature Center on Wednesday afternoon, as Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy and Nibbles the Groundhog had a Groundhog’s Day conference to predict the coming of Spring. The media event fell on the same day as the nationally-followed prediction by Punxsutawney Phil, but as Education naturalist Eli [...]