Events

Come meet our newest educator – our building! It is designed to model systems in nature, it is net zero energy, net zero water, has composting toilets, and has been made with responsibly sourced non-toxic materials, come check it out at one of our bi-monthly tours. Tours typically last from 1-1.5 hours. First Fridays at […]

Just because it’s cold outside, doesn’t mean your kids need to stay inside to play. Have them join Hitchcock’s Nature Play Afterschool Program, which is designed to let kids be kids. Together we will run, jump, climb, invent, imagine, play and be a free-range kids all while developing self-confidence and learning valuable social skills. During […]

Sometimes you just need to run, explore and play – especially in the winter! That’s what we do at Girls into the Wild, and lots more. Now in its fourth year, Girls into the Wild is designed to get girls outside, playing and engaging with nature in their own way. Instructor Katie Koerten strives to […]

Friday, Jan. 19: Animal Signs – Winter Wonderland Track Detectives Come walk through Hitchcock Center’s winter wonderland searching for tracks and signs of active winter animals. We will make a track guide, go on an adventure, eat a detective snack, and read a tracking story. Wear your warm winter layers and bring your sharp detective […]

The Hitchcock Center’s new “Living” Building, is designed to mimic nature! Come interact with the features that make this building among the “greenest” buildings in the world. Educator Katie Koerten will show us the ins and outs of this fascinating building in an interactive, hands-on program that includes a tour, a scavenger hunt, and an […]

The Hitchcock Center’s new “Living” Building, is designed to mimic nature! Come interact with the features that make this building among the “greenest” buildings in the world. Educator Katie Koerten will show us the ins and outs of this fascinating building in an interactive, hands-on program that includes a tour, a scavenger hunt, and an […]

Join us for our fifth year of offering an in-depth natural history course for naturalists and citizen scientists. Each month, in our series of nature explorations with different local naturalists, we explore a focused, seasonal, natural history topic. We’ll look at nature in new ways, from broad habitat perspectives to close details of individual species. […]

Repair Public is an exercise in community resourcefulness. The basic idea is to encourage people to learn how and/or where to fix broken items instead of tossing them into a landfill and buying replacements. The participants and facilitators are local community members just like you. You bring a broken item that you want help repairing […]

A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold with Rae Griffiths – Teaching Creatures and Casey Beebe – Hitchcock Center First half of book: Sunday, November 5, 2pm-3:30pm OR Thursday, November 16, 6pm-7:30pm Second half of book: Wednesday, January 10, 6pm-7:30pm OR Sunday, January 21, 2pm-3:30pm FREE, Registration appreciated Join us to read through some of the most classic and […]

(No school for Amherst schools) Monday, January 22 8:30am-3:00pm Ages 6-9, Grades 1-3 $60 members/$70 nonmembers Register here. Limited to 10 participants.