Rock Crushers
Join the Rock Crushers in trail building and maintenance in the Hickory Nut Gorge!
Join the Rock Crushers in trail building and maintenance in the Hickory Nut Gorge!
Mattie is a certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide. She is also a Zen practitioner, an Episcopal oblate, and a retired education professor, and she is certified in wilderness first aid. This event is one of our monthly forest bathing walks. Forest bathing is a practice from Japan that has been gaining attention in the
Join the Rock Crushers in trail building and maintenance in the Hickory Nut Gorge!
We will be promoting the growth of craft-grade rivercane to be harvested by Cherokee artisans by removing non-native invasive plant species such as Chinese privet, Japanese honeysuckle, and multiflora rose, as well as clearing blackberry along the leading edge of the canebrakes. We will remove these plants through hand pulling or cutting them at their
Join us to learn about innovative strategies for balancing avian biodiversity in agricultural landscapes.
Creativity lives within all of us. Nature has a special way of nurturing the creative spirit, helping it blossom and grow. Learn to better connect with nature and yourself by spending the afternoon with your guide, John Thomas Whitfield, BFA Studio Fine Arts, Appalachian State, at the pristine Transfiguration Preserve in Hickory Nut Gorge. We
Join the Rock Crushers in trail building and maintenance in the Hickory Nut Gorge!
Mattie is a certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide. She is also a Zen practitioner, an Episcopal oblate, and a retired education professor, and she is certified in wilderness first aid. This event is one of our monthly forest bathing walks. Forest bathing is a practice from Japan that has been gaining attention in the
Come learn some fascinating facts, myths, and stories about the Woodchuck - right on the heels of Groundhog Day!
Join us to learn about hemlock ecology, woolly adelgid biology, what is being done to help, and management strategies to take care of hemlocks on your own land.
Join the Rock Crushers in trail building and maintenance in the Hickory Nut Gorge!