Friday, December 6, 2024 Enjoy our beautifully decorated Nature Museum while listening to festive music, sipping mulled cider, and indulging in holiday treats! Get your Christmas shopping in high gear in our gift shop. Choose from a huge selection of locally sourced items and one-of-a-kind gifts for adults and children. Shop with our vendors! Litchfield […]

Saturday, December 7, 2024 Make your own festive wreath for the holiday season! Using local greens, cones, berries, birch bark and ribbon, you will create your own beautiful wreath. Workshop instructor Jean Bronson will teach you to complete a wreath in an afternoon. No prior wreath making experience is necessary. Wear old clothes, pine pitch […]

Saturday, December 7, 2024 The Conservation Center is delighted to have Judy and Mark back to perform this lovely holiday concert. Enchanting instrumental renditions of traditional and contemporary holiday music. A variety of lively tunes and lyrical melodies with an international flavor. Audiences respond enthusiastically to the charming sound of the guitar & mandolin as […]

December 14, 2024 They had names like Martha, Traveler, Stubby, Dan, Grip, and Sergeant Reckless. Many animals are attached to some of the most famous humans in history. Some animals made history on their own. Meet the beasts, hear their stories, and marvel over their accomplishments in this ninety-minute presentation which celebrates famous historical animals. […]

Saturday, December 14, 2024 During the 1800’s there was a mysterious wanderer who hiked Westchester County, New York, western Connecticut, and the Berkshires. Speaking very little, he communicated his needs of food primarily with hand gestures. Dressed in his leather “suit” he was, at first, a curious and fearful sight. But as residents grew to […]

Sunday, December 15, 2024 To volunteer, email Dave Tripp : [email protected]  

December 15 at 10:00 a.m., December 21 at 10:00 a.m., January 4 at 12:30 p.m., January 19 at 12:30 p.m. Llama Walks are back!!  Walk your own llama on the Cranberry Pond Trail, 87 Webster Road.  Minimum 4 walkers.  $55.00 per person ages 8 and up, $35.00 ages 4 – 7. Cash or Venmo on […]

Thursday, December 19, 2024 That calorically spooky season is upon us! Halloween candy, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years! Put those elastic waist pants back in a bin and keep moving through this time of over-indulgence by joining Gerri Griswold for a one-hour hike! You’ll be rewarded with some healthful recipes that will detour you away from […]

December 21 - 27, 2024 Courtesy of Tara and Arthur Diedrick.  Free admission to children ages twelve and under when accompanied by an adult.