Join mushroom expert Mayor Carter Nevill and Executive Director Bert Harris on a walk in the woods to find and identify as many species of mushrooms as we can.

Join Clifton Institute Executive Director Bert Harris to look and listen for creatures of the night! We’ll start by listening to the evening chorus of cicadas and birds. Then we will take a gentle walk through fields and woods to look for nocturnal animals. Late summer is an ideal time to observe several species of […]

Riverside Preserve is Fauquier County's newest park. It provides an interesting mix of habitats, from the river itself to the riparian habitat along the river’s edge to open fields. In early October we will see late wildflowers in the meadows and the last insects of summer, including butterflies, overflies, and katydids. We will also look […]