Weekend Wonder
We believe that wonder knows no season so bring your curiosity to this once-a-month Saturday series. Held at the Bunker Interpretive Center, we're bringing in experts of all kinds to increase your knowledge, skills, and joy for the world around us.
Weekend Wonder is for adults and older children. Activities for children 3 & up provided by our environmental educators!
February 8 | 10 - 11:30 AM | Consider the birds with Orin Gelderloos
Matthew 6:26 invites us to "consider the birds," and on February 8, Calvin Alum Orin Gelderloos will lead us in doing just that!
A lifelong educator and birder, Orin will help you appreciate what makes some of our native birds uniquely adapted to thrive here, exploring
- how birds manage to live in cold and hot environments
- because flying is energy expensive, how do birds get enough oxygen and energy for flight?
We'll spend time observing live birds, as well as getting a close-up view of some preserved specimens.
Bring the whole family! Our education team will have programming for children, too.
March 8 | 10 - 11:30 AM | Mushroom cultivation at home with Rich Leep
Maybe you enjoy growing a garden at home. Maybe you also enjoy seeing the diverse and interesting fungi that grow in nature. Did you know you can combine those interests?
Rich Leep, a longtime MSU educator and mushroom-growing enthusiast, will lead this interactive workshop, covering some basic mushroom biology before getting started on specifics of growing, caring for, and harvesting mushrooms. Come see what it takes to grow your own gourmet mushrooms at home through a drilling, inoculation, and site waxing demonstration.
Bring the whole family! Our education team will have programming for children, too
April 5 | 10 - 11:30 AM | Lent with Gayle Boss & Stations of the Cross
Enter into the bright sadness of the Lenten season with a special afternoon of discussion and practices at the Preserve.
We'll explore true and difficult stories that wake us to a greater compassion. Stories that wake in us a wild hope that from all this death and ruin something new could rise which is the promise of Lent. In the paradox of bright sadness these stories attest, our hope, though wild, is not impossible and is already loose in the world.
Author Gayle Boss will share from Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing with time for discussion and then we'll head out on the trail to walk the Stations of the Cross with images from artist Scott Erickson.
This is a family event with children's programming for ages 3+ in the Bunker Interpretive Center Lab.