Family Harvest Gardening – Register Now!
FOOD MATTERS! Tuesday, March 13th, 6:30pm – 8:30pm Broadlands Community Center 43008 Waxpool Road, Broadlands “Back Yard Gardening for Fun, Health & Safe Food” GARDEN CONSTRUCTION & CULTIVATION Site Selection 1. Have fun growing your own vegetables 2. Teach your children basic “survival” skills in a world where our health and & food safety are at risk 3. The safest food will be the food you grow and bring to your table Workshop and Lecture Presented by: Loudoun County Master Gardeners and Virginia Farm Bureau Must RSVP by March 8th: Loudoun County Farm Bureau (540) 751-1111 dee.cook@vafb.com
Halloween Costume Swap
The First Annual Broadlands' Green Halloween© Costume Swap Date: Sunday, October 16, 2011 Time: 1pm – 4pm Location: Broadlands Nature Center HOW DOES IT WORK? Drop off… one or more clean, gently-used, children's costumes in marked bin at the Broadlands Nature Center, and get a swap ticket per costume before the event date. Pick Your Costume Bring your swap tickets… to the Costume Swap on Oct. 16 and trade your ticket for a "like-new" costume! Don't have a ticket? Purchase costumes for $5 each. Swapping half the costumes kids wear at Halloween would reduce annual landfill waste by 6,250 tons, equal to the weight of 2,500 mid-size cars! Any proceeds from this event will go towards the…
Kids Summer Nature Camps in Broadlands
Don’t stress about the summer. Let your kids enjoy the nature camp right here.
Growing & Using Six Culinary Herbs Workshop
Sat., Feb., 26th 2pm ~ 4pm Broadlands Nature Center 21907 Claiborne Parkway, Broadlands 20148 It's time to add an Intense Flavor and Aroma to your Home Cooking. Master Gardener Lucia Pull, Pres. Goose Creek Herb Guild, will share her expertise in growing and using of 6 culinary herbs. Learn how to grow, care and use culinary herbs in your garden or container. Hand Outs, Lavender and Fennel Cookies, Door Prizes Informational Video You May Be Interested To Watch For questions: Call Oya Simpson @ 703-724-8040
Exploring Nature Here in Your Community
Do you sometimes wonder what to do with the kids outdoors specially in the winter. Well, you should not have that problem in Broadlands. Family Nature Programs are offered and not only they are fun for the kids but parents also will benefit from it.
Nature Center Programs Update
There is always a place outdoors to explore in Broadlands.
Why Our Family Recycles?
Recycling has always been an important thing for us. It all started when we heard about it through our grandparents–they have an enormous compost pile in their backyard in Wisconsin. It is so big that our grandpa, “Poppa” puts up layers of cement blocks just to keep all the goodies inside. Eventually, of course, it attracted all sorts of animals like skunks, deer, foxes, and even bears! Yikes! (Now he made a cover for that compost pile!) Poppa uses the compost to fertilize their garden; instead of throwing away all their apple or potato peelings, for example, they degrade in their compost pile and end up making great fertilizer for their garden. When we have…
What’s for Kids in November
Check out what’s going on and bring the kids for fun here in our Neighborhood.
Your Home Can Save You Money
Learn from local experts what it costs to make your home energy efficient, and how that investment pays for itself by lowering your energy bills.
November 12, Friday 6p-9p
GWU, Ashburn Campus, 20101 Academic Way, Building 1
Don’t Just Recycle
To understand the value of recycling, we must look at the entire lifecycle of a product ― from the extraction and processing of raw materials, to the manufacture and consumption of the product, and then to its final disposal.
