News Center – Environmental Education

Pollinator gardens are a buzzing splash of color during the summer months. But as fall sets in, things can look a bit … well, weedy.

So ... Read More

By Joe Brehm, Environmental Education Director

Though ours is one of the most benign natural regions in the world – few venomous creatures, mild climate, etc. ... Read More

This Field Note is by Hazel Escobedo, AmeriCorps Member, Environmental Education

I wandered around the fifth-grade classroom, immersed in the ... Read More

This Field Note is by Joe Brehm, Rural Action Environmental Education Director

“But it had left something with him; as long as the hummingbird had not ... Read More

This Field Note is by Joe Brehm, Rural Action Environmental Education Director

The cycles of warm rain and sunshine stimulate serious summer fecundity in Southeast Ohio ... Read More

This Field Note is by Joe Brehm, Rural Action Environmental Education Director.

Fighting through an understory thick with invasive multiflora rose and the friendlier northern spicebush, ... Read More

This Field Note is by Joe Brehm, Rural Action Environmental Education Director.

Four to five months from now, if you are lucky, you may find yourself ... Read More

(With this entry, Rural Action’s Environmental Education team launches Field Notes, an occasional series that takes readers into local forests to learn about our natural ... Read More

THE PLAINS, OH – A local historian will lead cyclists on a 17.5- mile tour of historic coal towns during the Ride Through Time bike ... Read More

Homeschool students have been spending time in Florida – without leaving their homes in Glouster.

In response to the pandemic, Rural Action Americorps member Madison Donohue, ... Read More