Honey Hollow Nature Center

Bird Walks
2017-11-18 08:00 - 09:00 UTC | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Join our naturalists for a guided bird walk around the BCAS property every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month! All ages and experience levels are welcome. Please bring a field guide, binoculars or borrow some of ours!

Nature Lover's Book Club
2017-11-16 18:15 - 20:00 | Doylestown Bookshop, 16 S. Main St., Doylestown, PA, 18901, United States
Calling all nature enthusiasts and book worms for the Bucks County Audubon Society Nature Lover’s Book Club to be held at the Doylestown Bookshop tonight!
*Note – departure from typical 4th Thursday this month due to Thanksgiving Holiday!
The group is open to anyone who has a passion for the environment and wants to share and discuss with like-minded individuals. To get started on your reading journey, visit our blog site, www.natureloversbookclub.blogspot.com! Here you will find discussion questions, future book lists, and a link to purchase the book (at discount!) from the Doylestown Bookshop. We welcome your insights and input for these readings!

Advocacy for a Cleaner Earth
2017-11-08 18:30 - 20:00 | Delaware Valley University, 700 E. Butler Ave, Doylestown, PA, 18901, United States
Are you passionate about saving the environment and want to do something more to advocate for it? Learn about advocacy regarding different environmental topics (such as air, water, gas, etc…) from professionals during this season’s lecture series at Delaware Valley University!
This month will feature Richard Myers – former Director of the Southeastern PA Sierra Club who will present on “The Ecology of Activism: Finding Meaning and Making a Difference in Challenging Times”. Our world today offers unique challenges and opportunities for an activism that seeks to create a more sustainable and just society. We will discuss the social, political, economic, as well as environmental, landscape with the goal of creating a truly ecological approach to the activism that may allow us to create the world we and future generations deserve.
Richard has worked extensively teaching others about the environment from founding his own environmental organization that focused on nuclear and energy issues, to teaching at University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, and high school gifted students. He also directed radiation and nuclear issues program for the Clean Air Council in Philadelphia.
This program is free and open to the public! We hope to see you and a friend there!
*Note- please leave yourself some extra time for parking!

Harris & Fran Brown Photography Display Starts
2017-11-06 10:00 - 16:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Local bird photographers, Harris and Fran Brown, are displaying their incredible pieces here at BCAS for one month as part of our “Rotating Artist Display!” They will be on display until December 6th.
From waterfowl, to songbirds, to raptors, this couple has captured it all in mesmerizing color and detail. All work is for sale with 25% of the proceeds going back to support the high-quality environmental education programs here at Bucks County Audubon Society.
The exhibit is open during normal business hours (Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm), with occasional weekend hours. Please call in advance to see what weekends are available.

Composting Workshop
2017-11-04 10:00 - 12:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Did you come to our Composting lecture series at DelVal this past year, want some more information, or are looking to get started, join us for a hands-on composting workshop where we’ll look at Vermiculture and how it can help you compost no matter what season!
Join BCAS and Sandy Sweeney for an interactive workshop that will teach you about Vermiculture – or composting with worms! Participants will be able to bring home their own starter worm batch!
Admission is $10/BCAS member, $15/Non-Members. Register here!

Advocacy & Action - Letter Writing
2017-11-02 19:00 - 20:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Ever wanted to write a letter to your congressman, but couldn’t think of what to say? BCAS is offering an Action Night where you can learn how to write an advocacy letter! We will write some together and send them on their way.
This is a free event. Please bring a friend along – letters are more fun to write while surrounded by great people!

Member's Only Cape May Raptor Trip
2017-10-28 07:00 - 17:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
This time of year is perfect for watching raptors migrating over Cape May! BCAS Members are welcome to all carpool together for a day trip to the beach to watch these magnificent birds!
Meet at the Visitor Center at 7am to carpool, or drive down separately if needed! More details and registration coming soon!

Healing Garden Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
2017-10-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Join Bucks County Audubon Society as we proudly unveil our new Healing Garden! The garden was designed to provide a quiet and peaceful place for small groups of adults and children with autism and special needs to connect with nature. Nature has been found to have many healing property for everyone, but especially with this underserved audience.
Thanks to funding from Foundations Community Partnership, BCAS has been able to work with partners Peaceful Living and horticultural therapist and landscape designer, Nancy Minnich to create this healing oasis. Construction and planting of the garden has been done with adults from Peaceful Living, BCAS volunteers, Nancy Minnich, and horticulture therapy student Joan Stelmach.
Join us as we celebrate the opening of this beautiful garden. The program will include sample horticultural therapy activities, and a change for everyone to relax, rejuvenate, and reconnect with nature.

Haunted Trails
2017-10-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Join in this family-friendly, non-scary event as you venture down our Jack-O-Lantern lit trails! Our educational “creatures” tell you all about their life here in Honey Hollow. Start your evening outside on our trails or by the story-telling witch, or inside getting your face painted and enjoying some light refreshments! Feel free to come costumed up, but be ready to go out on the trails!
Our theme this year is “What’s YOUR Phobia?!” We live in a wonderful ecosystem with many important animals like snakes, bats, and spiders! Learn about these commonly feared animals and why they are our friends!
Admission: $5/BCAS Members ($20/family), $10/Non-Members ($30/family)
Pay in advance by clicking here!

Advocacy for a Cleaner Earth Series
2017-10-11 18:30 - 20:00 | Delaware Valley University, 700 E. Butler Ave, Doylestown, PA, 18901, United States
Are you passionate about saving the environment and want to do something more to advocate for it? Learn about advocacy regarding different environmental topics such as sustainable agriculture from this month’s speaker – Ron Moule of Carversville Farm Foundation!
“Agriculture can be a major contributor to soil erosion, nutrient runoff, and environmental degradation around the planet but certain management systems, principles and practices can lead to regenerative outcomes. Many of these are rooted in mimicking nature and inspired by the work of indigenous cultures and the pre-industrial farmers of the early 20th century. We will discuss the legacy of the Honey Hollow Watershed, it’s role in the inception of the soil conservation movement and how our approach has evolved from conservation to regeneration.”
This program is free and open to the public! We hope to see you and a friend there!

Please note – parking places have been shown on the map below in red circles. The Life Science Building is marked with a star. Please let yourself some time to find a parking spot.

Pumpkin Carving
2017-10-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Want a fun night of artistic expression? Join us for our annual Pumpkin carving! We line our Haunted Trails with Jack-O-Lanterns carved by you! It’s always so exciting to see the pumpkin that YOU carved during your walk down our trails, so come out and join us!
Admission is free- just BYOP (Bring your own pumpkin!) We will supply utensils and pizza!

School Holiday Camp
2017-10-09 09:00 - 15:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Don’t know what to do with your children when they have the day off from school, but you still have to work? No worries! Bring them to our School Holiday Camp for a day of hiking, science experiments, crafts, games, and more!
More details and Registration for this program will be available soon!

Bird/Window Collisions: Historical Research and Contemporary Solutions
2017-10-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA, 19103, United States
Join BCAS at the Academy of Natural Sciences to learn about this important conservation issue, where keynote speaker, Dr. Daniel Klem, will address why the windows of our homes, commercial buildings, even iconic park visitor and bird research centers, in urban, suburban, and rural settings are so fatal to all birds in their immediate vicinity.He will offer us his unique history of studying this topic from over four decades and his current cutting-edge research. The goal has and continues to be to save more bird lives from windows. He will end by inviting colleagues and the audience to pose questions and offer comments.
Register by clicking here!

Rotating Art Display - Sue Ann Rainey (Rainey Day Photography)
2017-10-03 10:00 - 16:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
BCAS is excited to have Sue Ann Rainey displaying her photography here in the BCAS Visitor Center starting October 3rd and coming down November 1st. Come and check out her work on Mon-Friday from 10am-4pm in the Visitor Center! (Call ahead for weekend availability)
All artwork is available for sale with 25% of the proceeds being donated back to BCAS’s high-quality environmental education programs.

Art of the Barn Tour
2017-09-30 10:00 - 16:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Fall is a perfect time for the Barn Tour and Art Show! This tour features many historic, beautiful barns and highly talented and varied artists from the Bucks County Region. Spend the whole day on Saturday visiting the barns, or break the tour up into two days!
Stay tuned for more information. Click here to visit our Art of the Barn Tour and Show page.

Barn Tour Opening Reception & Lecture
2017-09-29 18:30 - 20:30 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Bucks County Audubon Society at Honey Hollow (BCAS) is excited to announce that the Art of the Barn Tour is coming up the weekend of September 30th and October 1st ! To help get you excited about the tour and to help educate about the importance and uniqueness of the diverse barns that will be featured this year, BCAS will be hosting an Opening Reception and Lecture at our Visitor Center, located at 2877 Creamery Rd., New Hope PA, 18938 on September 29th, at 6:30pm.
We are so excited to have Michael Cuba as our speaker. Originally from Bucks County, Michael moved to Vermont in the mid 90’s where, as a college student, he first began to hone his skills in traditional woodworking. His career in restoration timber framing began while working at the Institute for Social Ecology with Seth Kelley. After a few years in the field, they founded Knobb Hill Joinery, focusing on preservation and restoration timber framing while occasionally designing and cutting new structures. He has spent a great deal of time documenting historic buildings, teaching classes, and demonstrating traditional timber framing methods. After moving back to the Mid-Atlantic, he joined the team at the New Jersey Barn Company. Recently, Michael started Transom, a small historic preservation consulting company offering dendrochronology coring services, historic documentation and research. Michael is currently an officer of the board of the Timber Framers Guild, a national, educational organization. He is also the administrator of the Traditional Timber Framing Research and Advisory Group and contributor to both Scantlings newsletter and TIMBER FRAMING, the journal of the Timber Framers Guild.
Distilled: The Evolution of Timber Joinery in South-eastern Pennsylvania : This presentation will explore the migration of early and pre-industrial timber framing techniques from Europe to the Colonies. Using photos and drawings we will examine European architectural forms and their evolution in the new world. Bucks County represents a unique collision of cultural ideals and subsequent blending of building technologies that has influenced the development of the American landscape as early settlers moved west.
To better understand what makes the architectural landscape of Bucks and other south-eastern counties so distinctive, we will look not just to Europe, but to the colonial settlements to the north and south. In spite of a seemingly close proximity, we will see how the forms of New England, New York and New Jersey bear little resemblance to those with which we are so familiar here.
Art of the Barn Tour tickets here!

"The Humane Gardener" Demo & Book Signing
2017-09-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Join Author and naturalist, Nancy Lawson, as she provides us with a “Humane Gardener” demo. She’ll explain what that means and how you can be one too! Bring a copy of her book or purchase one from Farley’s Bookshop that day for a book signing.
After her presentation, join us as she takes us over to BCAS’s own organic garden and will shed some light on the good and the bad and teach us how to better be humane gardeners and garden for wildlife!
Visit her website by clicking here to find out more about her book and the important work that she does!
Get your ticket to this event by clicking here!

School Holiday Camp
2017-09-21 09:00 - 15:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Does your child have off from school, but you don’t have off from work? Don’t worry! Send them to BCAS for a day of nature camp!
Admission is $45/BCAS Members, $60/Non-Members per day! Registration will open soon.

Farewell to Summer Campfire
2017-09-16 18:30 - 20:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
As the summer season winds down, let’s celebrate the start of fall with an evening bonfire! Roast some s’mores, listen to live music, and watch the stars start to peep out from the night sky!
Admission is $5/BCAS Members, $10/Non-Members! Register by clicking here!

Homeschool Session
2017-09-15 10:30 - 11:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Want your homeshcooler to learn more about nature in a relaxed, interactive atmosphere? Join our weekly homeschool session!
This class is based off of our Pre-School Explorer program, but has been adapted to suit all elementary aged school children! Your child will get to hear a story, go on a hike, and do a craft all based off of the week’s topic. This fall session will focus on the change of season and the mammals that live here at BCAS!
Register by clicking here!

Advocacy for a Cleaner Earth Series
2017-09-13 18:30 - 20:00 | Delaware Valley University, 700 E. Butler Ave, Doylestown, PA, 18901, United States
Are you passionate about saving the environment and want to do something more to advocate for it? Learn about advocacy regarding different environmental topics (such as air, water, gas, etc…) from professionals during this season’s lecture series at Delaware Valley University!
This month our speaker will be Maya van Rossum of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network! She will be talking about pipelines and their impact on clean water.
Maya K. van Rossum is the Delaware Riverkeeper and leader for the Delaware Riverkeeper Network. The role of the Delaware Riverkeeper is to give the Delaware River, and the communities that depend upon it and appreciate it, a voice at every decisionmaking table that could provide help or do harm. Delaware Riverkeeper Network has its main office in Bristol, PA and can be found on the web at www.delawareriverkeeper.org. van Rossum, who is skilled as an environmental attorney, strategist, community organizer, facilitator, coalition builder and manager, has led DRN for over 20 years. As Delaware Riverkeeper, she organizes concerned citizens, testifies before state and national governing bodies, oversees DRN litigation, and watches over the Delaware River and all of its tributary streams. Through appointments by governors and agency heads, she has played a role in shaping water quality, quantity and habitat policies and regulation in the Delaware River watershed for nearly two decades.
This program is free and open to the public! We hope to see you and a friend there!

"The Messenger" Movie Night
2017-09-09 18:30 - 20:30 | ACME Screening Room, 25 S. Union St., Lambertville, NJ, 08530, United States
Join us at the ACME Screening Room in Lambertville, NJ for a showing of the movie “The Messenger”! Stay afterwards to discuss it with like-minded people and make some new friends! Tickets can be purchased at the ACME’s Screening room website: http://www.acmescreeningroom.org/ and clicking on “EVENTS”!

Cold-Blooded Critters: PARS
2017-08-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Fascinated with reptiles and amphibians? So are we! Join us for a herpetology presentation and then we’ll head to our streams and forests to search out the slimy salamanders, slithery snakes, and jumpy frogs! Come ready to hike and bring a field guide or camera if you have them. No experience needed!
Admission is $5/BCAS Members and $10/ Non-Members. To register, click here!

Summer Eco-Camp!: Ex-STREAM Explorers
2017-08-14 09:00 - 15:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
From catching crayfish in the stream to jumping in the creek, to scooping up pond animals, this week is perfect for any water-lover!
BCAS Summer Camp strives to foster the child-nature connection so that all children can learn, play and grow with nature every day. We believe that a combination of structured activities, free play art, and time spend with the Earth benefits every child.
Camp days run from 9am-3pm (or 9am-12pm for half day option) and is perfect for kids ages 5-10! We provide a snack, but children will need to bring their own lunch.
Register by clicking here!

Beautiful Butterflies
2017-07-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Love butterflies and pollinators? Learn all about them during our annual Butterfly Count citizen science project! Join us for a brief presentation and then head out to our fields and meadows in search of these flighty creatures. Bring a field guide, binoculars, and camera if you have them. No experience necessary!
Admission is $3 and the proceeds benefit the North American Butterfly Association.
To register for this event, click here!

Saturday Morning Bird Walks
2017-07-15 08:00 - 09:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Join our naturalists for a guided bird walk on our property! Please bring binoculars/camera and field book if you have them, and appropriate shoes for walking along natural trails. No experience necessary! Birders of all ages welcome!

When Nature Gets Nasty: Panel Discussion and Reception
2017-07-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Want to keep your family, pets and self safe from ticks and other disease carrying pests this summer? Join BCAS for a panel discussion led by tick and mosquito disease specialists such as Dr. Stanley Plotkin, Dr. John Shiver, and Dr. Ian Spiegel. Feel free to ask questions and learn all you can to stay safe and informed.
We will be having a wine reception prior, so make sure to come for that and stay for the panel!
Admission is $15/BCAS Members and $20/Non-Members. To register for this event, click here!

Summer Eco-Camp! : What's Your Habitat?
2017-06-26 09:00 - 15:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Join in as we learn all about the habitats that the animals of BCAS call home! Which one is your favorite – the stream, forest, or field?
BCAS Summer Camp strives to foster the child-nature connection so that all children can learn, play and grow with nature every day. We believe that a combination of structured activities, free play art, and time spend with the Earth benefits every child.
Camp days run from 9am-3pm (or 9am-12pm for half day option) and is perfect for kids ages 5-10! We provide a snack, but children will need to bring their own lunch.
Register by clicking here!

Hello Summer! Campfire and Camp Out
2017-06-24 19:00 - 2017-06-25 09:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Join BCAS as we ring in the summer with a celebratory camp fire! Roast some marshmallows, listen to some music and enjoy the season! After the campfire, pitch your tent and watch the stars come out and fall asleep to the sounds of nature. Breakfast will be served in the morning.
Campfire is $5/BCAS Members, $10/Non-Members
Camp Out is $15/BCAS Members, $20/Non-Members
Click here to register!

Summer Eco-Camp! : Ooey Gooey Science
2017-06-19 09:00 - 15:00 | Honey Hollow Nature Center, 2877 Creamery Road, New Hope, 18938, United States
Learn the ins and outs of science during our STEM themed week! Make a volcano explode, create slime and much more!
BCAS Summer Camp strives to foster the child-nature connection so that all children can learn, play and grow with nature every day. We believe that a combination of structured activities, free play art, and time spend with the Earth benefits every child.
Camp days run from 9am-3pm (or 9am-12pm for half day option) and is perfect for kids ages 5-10! We provide a snack, but children will need to bring their own lunch.
Register by clicking here!
