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Battle of the Botanicals 2024

For the first time since 2019, join us for an evening of botanically inspired cocktails and appetizers from our area’s top mixologists and chefs to benefit the Hitchcock Center’s sustainability, environmental justice, natural history and STEM programming!  All proceeds help to provide year-round education for a healthy planet to over 13,000 people of all ages. […]

The Magic of MOTHS

With Adam Kohl Friday, July 26, 8 - 9:30 PM During Moth week come learn about this amazing night time creature.  Did you know that it seems that by tracking moths in a habitat you assess the stability and productivity of your local food web?

Women in Climate Stories: Screening & Discussion

August 7, 6 PM Drawdown’s Neighborhood is a climate solutions short documentary series passing the mic to climate heroes who often go unheard. “Each of us has a climate story to tell. By passing the mic to underrepresented people working on the frontlines of climate change, we hope to share as many as these stories […]

Event Series Fall Birding Field Trip with Scott Surner

Fall Birding Field Trip with Scott Surner

Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

Fall Birding Class with Scott Surner  August 24 – October 26, 2024 Birding in the fall is just as wonderful as birding in the spring, see hawks migrating, fall warblers, waterfowl migration and more.  Join lifelong birder Scott Surner as well as other local birders to get out and enjoy nature, birds and the company […]

Fall Birding – Classroom Program

Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

Fall Birding Class with Scott Surner  August 24 – October 26, 2024  (Plus optional add on November weekend trip)  Birding in the fall is just as wonderful as birding in the spring, see hawks migrating, fall warblers, waterfowl migration and more.  Join lifelong birder Scott Surner as well as other local birders to get out […]

Mushroom Hunters Field Walk

Saturday, August 31, 10 AM -12 PM  Join us for a Mushroom hunting field walk, learn basic mushroom identification and ecology. 

Lecture & Wild Mushroom Cooking Demo

Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

Indoor Slideshow -Lecture & Wild Mushroom Cooking Demo  with The Mushroom Hunting Foundation Saturday, August 31, 1pm – 3pm at the Hitchcock Center Learn from Ryan Bouchard and Emily Schmidt, New England’s leading mushroom hunting teachers.  Using a slideshow of their own incredible all-local photography, Ryan and Emily will explain the basics of wild mushroom science […]

Mushroom Hunters Field Walk

Saturday, August 31, 3:30PM – 5:30PM  Join us for a Mushroom hunting field walk, learn basic mushroom identification and ecology.  REGISTER- PM Session – New Class

Fall Birding – Classroom Program

Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

Fall Birding Class with Scott Surner  August 24 – October 26, 2024  (Plus optional add on November weekend trip)  Birding in the fall is just as wonderful as birding in the spring, see hawks migrating, fall warblers, waterfowl migration and more.  Join lifelong birder Scott Surner as well as other local birders to get out […]

Event Series Fall Birding Field Trip with Scott Surner

Fall Birding Field Trip with Scott Surner

Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

Fall Birding Class with Scott Surner  August 24 – October 26, 2024 Birding in the fall is just as wonderful as birding in the spring, see hawks migrating, fall warblers, waterfowl migration and more.  Join lifelong birder Scott Surner as well as other local birders to get out and enjoy nature, birds and the company […]

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