About the Martinsville-Henry County Community Nature Initiative

With the support of The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont, Virginia Museum of Natural History and its partners, Dr. Denny Casey and Tamara Poles developed a new nature and outdoor initiative entitled the Martinsville Henry County Community Nature Initiative (MHC CNI). The CNI will serve as a clearinghouse for environmental information, use nature as a way to stimulate learning, develop opportunities for quality family time in the outdoors, and position VMNH as a leader in environmental education. CNI will serve as a means to provide hands-on, real-world opportunities for children, educators, and families to increase appreciation for nature and as an effective means to better understand and address community environmental issues.

Click the above CNI logo for official website and to access your Earth Week Passport!

Earth Week 2010 Highlights

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Outdoor Fun Festival!!

Festival in the Park!!! The Outdoor Fun Festival had over 300 people in attendance and organizations as far north as Roanoke and as far south as NC participated. This was CNI's first festival and it went very well. Kids had a blast climbing the large rock wall, doing flips on the moon bounce, sliding on the inflatable slide, trying their skills on the disc golf display, and enjoying free play in the dirt pit with worms and the sand pit!! Pictures will be placed in the CNI facebook group and on this webpage soon! :)