Ages 5 yrs-adult Don’t forget to collect your flowers’ and veggies’ hidden gifts: seeds! Learn about the basics of seed saving, selection, preparation, collection and storage. Design your own seed mix, and go home with a seed kit of wildflowers you will assemble in class. Taught by Pioneer Farmsteaders. Sign up in advance.

All ages Turns out it is not that efficient to eat with your hands. So, carve a wooden spoon! Ice cream always tastes better with a self-carved wooden spoon from nature’s handy resources. Let Sarqit Outdoor Living teach you to create your own utensil, never having to go farther than your own backyard.  Sign up […]

All ages The Downtown Aquarium’s animal ambassadors will drop by the Nature Center to say hello! You can learn about their adaptations up close and personal. Sign up in advance, and please leave your dogs at home.

Adults Meet at Pioneer Farmsteaders’ location, 7000 Garrison St, at 6:30pm for an optional farm walk to see compost in action. Class from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Nature Center.   Learn about turning yard and garden waste into rich compost. We will also cover techniques for using compost to increase the productivity of […]

Adults and teens What to do with all that extra produce from the garden? Learn about different techniques to preserve your harvest, from dehydration to pickling, canning to infusions. This class will open your eyes to various ways our foremothers stretched their harvest to last the winter. This is not a “how to” on canning.   […]

Adults Are you an educator or care giver that works with young children? Do you have a desire to get your students/children beyond the playground equipment, to discover and explore nature, but aren't sure where to start? This hands-on, inquiry based active workshop will give you the tools you need to get your kids outside […]

Ages 10-adult Enjoy a presentation of contrasts from local travelers, Joe and Nickie McMillan. Cool down in Nordic waterfalls, geysers and glaciers from the southern coast of Iceland. Then, warm up with sand, sun, and sweltering heat in the cities and deserts of the United Arab Emirates. These odd bedfellows, opposite in many ways, both […]

Adults Meet at the Majestic View Park tennis courts for an hour of tennis instruction, drills, and games. Then off to the Nature Center for fun, hands-on educational activities about animals, wetlands and more. Pickup is back at the courts. Call the Apex Tennis Center at 303-420-1210 or michelec@apexprd.org with questions.

All ages Bring your children for a nature play date in our new “Nature: Explore” space, where they can climb on logs, jump stump to stump, build forts, dig in the dirt and connect with their world. No screens, no plans, no slides or swings, rather loads of unstructured imagination and creativity.   Stay as long […]