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Event Series Chickadee Camp 2024

Chickadee Camp

Chickadee Camp Entering Kindergarten* See our Summer Camp page for more info Mondays - Fridays, 8:45 am - 1 pm Session 5: August 5 – August 9 (one week) The Chickadee program is a safe, nurturing first outdoor day camp experience for young ones. Attentive and loving counselors facilitate safe and curious exploration of the […]

Event Series Nature Summer Camp 2024

Nature Summer Camp: Micro World

Our Little Micro World Entering grades 1 - 6 Mondays - Fridays, 8:45 am - 3 pm Session 5: August 5 – August 9 (one week) Get ready to get very tiny this week as we explore all things small. Who are the creatures that can fit in your hand, or on a penny? We’ll […]

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

Event Series Girls into the Wild

Girls into the Wild

with Katie Koerten Grades 4 – 6 Tuesdays, 3:30 – 5:30 PM September 3 – December 17 (no program November 5) Fee per Child: Tier A-$453 | Tier B-$378 | Tier C-$321  | Tier D-$245 Limited to 12 participants Girls into the Wild is back in Fall 2024 for more romping wildly through the field […]

Event Series Junior Nature Play Afterschool

Junior Nature Play Afterschool

Junior Nature Play Afterschool with Lauren Dausch Grades K – 2 Wednesdays, 3:30 – 5:30 PM September 4 – December 18 (Extended day (1 PM) on October 23, no program November 27) Fee per Child: Tier A-$487 | Tier B-$406 | Tier C-$345 | Tier D-$264 Limited to 12 participants Hitchcock’s Junior Nature Play Afterschool […]

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