Shepherds Fest: Saturday September 23rd

Posted on 09/21/2023

On September 23rd from 1:00 – 3:30 pm we are holding our 7th annual Shepherds Fest.

We invite you to come visit & enjoy some time at Shepherd’s Corner Ecology Center. Take some time to walk our mediation trail & labyrinths. Meet some of Shepherd’s Corner friends and supporters such as Franklin County Soil & Water Conservation District and our beekeeper will be here to share knowledge about bees! Shepherd’s Corner friend Gail Maraman from Windy Crest Design will be on site to share her art! (Gail also leads wonderful programs here at Shepherd’s Corner). Diana Morse will also be joining us with a wool yarn spinning demonstration. Learn more ways that you can recycle!

Meet, greet, and feed our flock. Maggie, our llama, may even come to say, ‘Hi’! Explore our meditation trail and take a hayride around to see parts of Shepherd’s Corner you may not have seen before! Our back patio that overlooks the pastures, garden, and our smaller labyrinth is a great space to enjoy some delicious food if you would like to bring a picnic! Be sure to bring a water bottle to be filled at one of our water stations.

This event is free to the public! We are asking those who attend bring shelf stable foods to donate to local food pantries.

You’ll be able to learn how to recycle more efficiently at Shepherds Fest this weekend at Shepherd’s Corner Ecology Center!

There will also be an opportunity to recycle some non-traditional recyclables at Shepherds Fest:

*Hygiene products- used and empty: toothbrushes, toothpaste (caps ok), deodorant containers, and floss containers

*Kroger brands flexible packaging (bags): Simple Truth Organic, Private Selection, Pet Pride, Luvsome, Abound, Home Chef, Comforts (diapers), HemisFares, Free From & Kroger brand, including from frozen items.

*Solo/rigid party cups: #6

*Brita brand items: pitchers, filters, dispensers, bottles & faucet systems.

*Food Storage Containers. All brands of reusable plastic and glass food storage containers, including #5 takeout containers.

*Empty plastic gift cards & hotel keycards.

*Traditional 6-Pack rings from soft drinks, sports drinks, beer, etc.: stretchy

*Rigid 6 pack holders: Pak-Tech Handles: thicker plastic

*Royal Canin & Eukanuba flexible plastic pet food packaging

*Swiffer (brand only): used refills from sweeper, duster and wet jet pads.

*VTech & Leap Frog: electronic learning device toys.

We are raffling off a quilt that was created and donated by Sr. Andre Kravec. Participation in the raffle is not tax deductible and is limited to Ohio residents.
Raffle beings 9/12 and will end at Shepherds Fest on 09/23/2023. Click the quilt below to purchase tickets online.

Individual raffle tickets will be available for purchase on site at Shepherds Fest (Event is from 1:00 – 3:30 pm, with raffle at 3:00 pm. Ticket sales will end at 3:15 pm).

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Quilt Raffle: Drawing at Shepherds Fest

Posted on 09/13/2023

Quilt created and donated by Sr. Andre Kravec.

Measurements: approximately 51 inches x 54 inches

Participation in this raffle is not tax deductible and is limited to Ohio residents.

Raffle beings 9/12 and will end at Shepherds Fest on 09/23/2023.

Individual raffle tickets will be available for purchase on site at Shepherds Fest (event is from 1:00 – 3:30 pm, with raffle at 3:00 pm. Ticket sales will end at 3:15 pm).

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Wetland Update

Posted on 09/06/2023

Our wetland pools are beginning to take off! Creatures such as insects, macro invertebrates, and amphibians have found themselves at home in the wetland pools.

Recently a few flats of aquatic and emergent plants were planted in our wetland area. In efforts to help these plants become established, a thin filament was added between a couple different posts. In the pictures below, if you look closely, you can see the filament. This is to dissuade the geese from eating the plants that have been recently added.

Plants included in the most recent plantings were:
Bristly Sedge (Carex comosa)
Broadleaf Arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia)
Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata)
Soft Rush (Juncus effusus)
Soft-stem Bulrush (Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani)
Woolgrass (Scripus cyperinus)

Plants beginning to establish themselves at the shallow edge of one of the wetland pools. Edge area of one of the two in progress wetland pools. Edge of the wetland, strung across the posts are a thin filament with the intention of preventing canada geese from consuming the plants that are being added to the water's edge of our wetland pools. View of a wetland pool that is filled with water. Plants established at the wetland's edge.