At 2,600 acres of forests, wetlands, and native grasslands, Strawberry Plains Audubon Center is the National Audubon Society’s largest Audubon Center. Formerly a cotton plantation dating back to the 1830s, this property was donated to Audubon as a wildlife sanctuary in 1998 and serves as a living laboratory for a host of educational programming and field trips, as well as a demonstration site for active land management of a diversity of habitat types. Home to the Chickasaw prior to the antebellum period, the property is rich with remnants of our regions history, which are used as education about past land use practices and associated environmental impacts. Each September, over 150 volunteers help facilitate our annual fundraiser and Audubon’s largest outdoor festival, the Hummingbird Migration & Nature Celebration. Strawberry Plains is also home to Audubon’s largest native plant nursery, which helps support our year-round conservation work through semi-annual plant sales each spring and fall.