Discover fungi on the Discovery Center's trail! Philly Mycology Club will lead a walk around our site, showing us how to identify key features and chat about the ecological significance. We'll also learn how to use iNaturalist to document the fungi we may find, or the ones you'll find in the future. Lastly, the Audubon Mid-Atlantic team will talk about our conservation efforts along our trail and how you can get involved!

Admission to the program is free, space is limited. Reach out to audubon@discoveryphila.org if you have any questions!

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Once you learn about wild plants and their many uses, you'll never be the same! Join Audubon Mid-Atlantic and Lady Danni from Wild Foodies as we walk through our trail to observe and learn about our edible plants on site, and emphasize the beauty and utility of the plants you may consider weeds. You'll also learn about our conservation efforts along our trail and how you can get involved. After our walk, we'll conclude with a discussion with mugwort tea and shortbread that Lady Danni will make; participants can also build a deeper understanding and connection to these plants. Participants are encouraged to bring their nature journals to document their observations.

Admission to the program is free, space is limited. Reach out to audubon@discoveryphila.org if you have any questions!

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Join us on Saturday, July 11 and Saturday September 19 for our next Nature and Poetry events of 2026! Open Mic sign ups start at 6:30pm and are on a first come first serve basis. We will start the evening with a yoga session hosted by the amazing @yogijawn and we will end the Night with a Movement Workshop hosted by @wholesomeofficial. This is a free event with live music, free refreshments and gifts - hosted by Amani! Staff from Audubon Mid-Atlantic is also available to talk about the history of the site and provide a brief tour of the conservation efforts taking place in this natural site.

These events will incorporate a fundraiser for Hope and Cope. Hope and Cope was founded by Pastor Lola Blount and co-founded by Mrs. Mary Anne Cole eight years ago. Though originally starting as a grief counseling session, we now serve the senior community through music, art, poetry, free gifts and creative expression. We host Hope and Cope events every first Sunday of the month at the Terrace of Chestnut Hill. Donations will go towards funding our monthly events! We hope you can join us! 

Rooted in close observation of the local environment, the workshop invites participants—guided by naturalist insight and artistic prompts—to slow down, notice, and record what they see, hear and feel through drawing, writing, or both, exploring the productive juxtaposition of scientific observation and personal reflection to deepen their relationship to place.

No experience or artistic ability is necessary. Pencils and notebooks will be provided or bring your own.

This event coincides with Love and Murphy’s exhibitions on view at The John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove from April 18 - August 16, 2026. The artists partnered on artworks in Field Notes: Learning to See, on view in the historic house at Mill Grove. Deirdre Murphy’s paintings are featured in the solo exhibition Deirdre Murphy: Home Making, on view in the visitor center and historic house.

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Join Penn State Master Watershed Stewards and Audubon Mid-Atlantic as we highlight trees present at the center, learn how we could care for them, and how they support local animals, insects and humans.

This program is for all ages (young children should have an adult present). We'll learn what a watershed is, tree identification basics, walk the trail to test our knowledge, and chat about how we can care for our trees.

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Join us on Saturday, July 11 and Saturday September 19 for our next Nature and Poetry events of 2026! Open Mic sign ups start at 6:30pm and are on a first come first serve basis. We will start the evening with a yoga session hosted by the amazing @yogijawn and we will end the Night with a Movement Workshop hosted by @wholesomeofficial. This is a free event with live music, free refreshments and gifts - hosted by Amani! Staff from Audubon Mid-Atlantic is also available to talk about the history of the site and provide a brief tour of the conservation efforts taking place in this natural site.

These events will incorporate a fundraiser for Hope and Cope. Hope and Cope was founded by Pastor Lola Blount and co-founded by Mrs. Mary Anne Cole eight years ago. Though originally starting as a grief counseling session, we now serve the senior community through music, art, poetry, free gifts and creative expression. We host Hope and Cope events every first Sunday of the month at the Terrace of Chestnut Hill. Donations will go towards funding our monthly events! We hope you can join us!