by Will Coleburn | Jun 22, 2021 | Education, Impact
This month, Youth Education Programs at The North Carolina Arboretum has gotten to welcome rising 2nd through 7th graders to Discovery Camp, where kids can spend a week exploring the great outdoors in the beauty of our 434-acre campus. From finding and identifying...
by Michelle Pearce | Nov 30, 2020 | Nature
Young minds are wonderfully inquisitive, and if you are a parent to a little one — or know anyone who is — it doesn’t take much imagination to think of the questions a child might have about the changes they’re seeing in the natural world this time of...
by Jonathan Marchal | Jun 17, 2020 | Nature
I’ve engaged children of all ages in outdoor activities over the past 20 years — first as an environmental educator, and more recently as a father. It has been an eye-opening experience to transition from working with other people’s children to kids of my own. My...
by Abby Cantrell | Aug 8, 2019 | Impact, Nature, The Arboretum
It was a whirlwind adventure for The North Carolina Arboretum’s ecoEXPLORE team: visiting 10 state parks in 10 days. They began with animal encounters at Chimney Rock State Park and a salamander meander at nearby Rumbling Bald. From there they and their...
