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Connecting people with nature.


Bernheim turns 90 in 2019. We’re celebrating with blogs about our work, history, and more.

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Our Story, Your Story, One Giant Story!

Throughout the years, we’ve heard a lot of great Bernheim stories. For our 90th anniversary in 2019, we’re collecting them.
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From the BLOG

My Bernheim Story: Steve Lathan

My Bernheim story has to do with sustainability. After my wife and I retired, leaving a busy life of raising our children with both of us working full-time, we needed a place to seek renewal. It seems, oftentimes in this … Read More »

American woodcocks thrive at Bernheim

A plump, secretive bird, the American woodcock (Scolopax minor) thrives in the forest edge and wet bottom lands of Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest.   The American woodcock uses its long sensitive beak to probe the … Read More »

Explore the world of Bernheim through Minecraft!

Last fall, Bernheim Artists in Residence, The Common People, used Minecraft as a medium and the natural world for inspiration to create Bernheim inspired worlds.

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