From main dishes to dreamy desserts, the Audubon Community Nature Center has a wide variety of selections in their annual online Pi Day Pie Auction Fundraiser from Feb. 28 through March 5. Audubon volunteer Rick Rupprecht is offering a New York style cheesecake with cherry topping.

The Audubon Community Nature Center is celebrating Pi Day, March 14, early this year with bidding for its annual Pie Auction Fundraiser set from Friday, Feb. 28, to Wednesday, March 5.

Bid on a favorite baker or a favorite pie. The homemade pies, which also include vegan main dishes to desserts, are created by Audubon staff and volunteer bakers.

The online Pie Auction 2025 bidding takes place at 32auctions.com/ACNC25. Bidding begins at 1 a.m. Friday, Feb. 28, and closes at 9 p.m., Wednesday, March 5.

Among the dessert selections are bakewell tart, New York style cheesecake with cherry topping, and apple, cranberry pecan crumble, Crown’s chocolate espresso, crumb top apple, decadent peanut butter, elderberry, gluten-free peach, lemon meringue, mango cardamom, pecan toffee, peppermint bavarian cream, pumpkin pi, Run for the Roses Kentucky Derby, and The Elvis pies.

Main dishes include spaghetti, spinach tofu, and taco pies, and lobster and vegan tofu pot pies.

Audubon will announce pie winners on Thursday, March 6.

Winners must be able to pick up their pies in-person at the Nature Center on Saturday, March 8, between noon and 4:30 p.m.

Pictures, descriptions of the pies and their makers, and ingredients accompany each of the pies at the auction site, 32auctions.com/ACNC24.

There is also a “buy now” price that guarantees the purchase of a certain pie.

All proceeds support Audubon buildings, grounds, and staff. The Audubon Community Nature Center is located at 1600 Riverside Road, one-quarter mile east of Route 62 between Jamestown and Warren. Visit the nearly 600-acre nature preserve, check in on the live birds of prey, and hike, snowshoe or cross country ski more than five miles of trails dawn until dusk daily for free.

The three-story Nature Center building houses interactive displays, a collection of live animals including the Hellbender exhibit, and the Blue Heron Gift Shop. Visitors are welcome Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Sundays from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Nature Center members and SNAP/EBT cardholders have free building admission daily. Building admission is also free every Sunday for non-Nature Center members.