Events

Wednesday, April 24, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Mary Jo Maffei of Garden Path Designs Sliding Scale $10, $15, $20 Garden Design 101 takes concepts from architecture, interior design, and garden design, and shows you how to incorporate these principles into your greenspace.  Topics include: assessment and function, enclosure and third dimension, texture and shape, rhythm and repeat […]

Spring Birding Course with Scott Surner February 24 - June 8 2024 Classes and field trips Sliding scale tickets: $375, $325, $280 Up to 15 participants. Registration required.  April 27: Plum Island area. 5 am - all Day. Herons, early shorebirds, Ibis, and more. REGISTER HERE

Spring Birding Course with Scott Surner February 24 - June 8 2024 Classes and field trips Sliding scale tickets: $375, $325, $280 Up to 15 participants. Registration required.  May 4: Local. 7 am - 12 pm. Looking for arriving Warblers, Vireos, Kinglets etc REGISTER HERE

All We Can Save Book Circle January - May 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month, 7:30pm - 8:30pm Are you hungry for deeper dialogue about the climate crisis and building community around solutions? We are too. All We Can Save Circles are like a book club, but a cooler, deeper, extended version. Let’s strengthen […]

Wednesday, May 15, 8 - 10 AM And/Or Saturday, June 9, 8 - 10 AM Sliding Scale $15, $25, $35 Sometimes the most amazing birds you can’t spot, but their song gives them away!  Join naturalist John Green and his great ear to see what birds you can find by sight or sound during this […]

Spring Birding Course with Scott Surner February 24 - June 8 2024 Classes and field trips Sliding scale tickets: $375, $325, $280 Up to 15 participants. Registration required.  May 25: Local. 6:30 am - 12 pm. We’ll hike up Mt. Holyoke with hopes of finding Cerulean and Worm-eating Warblers, plus other migrants. REGISTER HERE

Sunday, May 26, 10 AM - 12 PM Our native plants have so much to teach us, their balanced place in the ecosystem, their co-evolution with pollinators, mycorrhizae and us humans!

All We Can Save Book Circle January - May 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month, 7:30pm - 8:30pm Are you hungry for deeper dialogue about the climate crisis and building community around solutions? We are too. All We Can Save Circles are like a book club, but a cooler, deeper, extended version. Let’s strengthen […]

Spring Birding Course with Scott Surner February 24 - June 8 2024 Classes and field trips Sliding scale tickets: $375, $325, $280 Up to 15 participants. Registration required.  June 1: Travel day. 5 am -12 pm. Southwick Wildlife Management Area. We usually come away with 40-50 species in this grassland area. Some of the past […]

with Mary & David Dunn Sunday, June 2, 2pm - 3:30pm  ( Rain Date June 9) Mary and David are extraordinary volunteers at the Hitchcock Center.  They have built and maintained the rain barrel systems we use for our Discovery Yard and Teaching Gardens. This program will  join Mary and David Dunn at their home […]