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Backyard Challenge: Make Violet Syrup

04/30/2020 2PM All, Parks at Home for Kids, Backyard Challenge, Parks at Home for Grownups, All About Food, Videos

We’re giving you a new kind of backyard challenge! Have you spied violets in your yard? You can turn these purple flowers into a syrup for different food and drinks.

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Replay: Pollinators

04/14/2020 11AM All, Your Backyard Habitat, Parks at Home for Kids, Parks at Home for Grownups, Videos, All About Food, Nature Academy

Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff! Today, Nature Interpreter Stephanie shares more about pollinators and shows how you can make a Mason bee home from objects you have in your house.

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Nature Interpreter Will Buelsing stands in front of his cooking fire in pioneer garb.

Replay: Cook Like a Pioneer

04/1/2020 4PM All, Parks at Home for Kids, Parks at Home for Grownups, Videos, All About Food

Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff! Get out your churn and dutch oven – today, we’re cooking just like early Ohio pioneers did.

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Purple coneflower

How to Compost at Home

04/1/2020 11AM Your Backyard Habitat, All, Parks at Home for Kids, Parks at Home for Grownups, Going Green, All About Food

Practicing sustainable living can be rewarding for your household. Check out the basics of composting and how you can begin composting at home in this post!

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