We encounter them frequently while hiking in forests and meadows. They can be attached to small plants or grand trees. What are galls? Are they harmful? What stories do they tell? Naturalists Pete and Barb Rzasa will answer your every question about these unusual growths during a fun and colorful one hour presentation! 2:00 p.m., […]

This lively cooking show will be rescheduled.

Saturday, May 7, 2022 Spend some quality time with naturalists Pete and Barb Rzasa wandering White Memorial’s Five Ponds complex in search of native wildflowers.Connecticut is blessed with so many colorful species. Marsh marigold, trout lily, bluettes, toothwort, and trillium are just some of what we might find! Stories and flower folklore of our native spring […]

Imagine a vast, treeless and grassy plain, much of it filled with large woolly beasts! Ice Age Beringia – the ancient land mass encompassing eastern Siberia, Alaska, Canada’s Yukon – was home to a unique mix of animals tens of thousands of years ago. Many of them went extinct as the Ice Age ended, but […]

In March 2020, when the Pandemic closed the Conservation Center’s doors, you took to our trails and blessed us with your photographs. Many were posted weekly in our email newsletter, The Habitattler. The submissions were so steady, abundant, and delightful that we’ve kept on accepting them. Today Gerri Griswold shares some of her favorites with […]

Succulent filled terrariums are all the buzz right now in floral boutiques.  Join Susan Spanger of Bloomful Floral Design and learn how to create your own unique arrangement using a variety of top-quality, gorgeous succulents in a low glass-bowl terrarium.  Susan will guide you through the process which begins with a layer of pebbles partially […]

Saturday, March 26, 2022 Was it a tiger? A dog? A threat? A monster? It was none of the aforementioned. Learn all about the demise of the Thylacine, AKA Tasmanian Wolf or Tasmanian Tiger, a carnivorous marsupial once indigenous to Australia and Tasmania. Today the animal is a legend, romanticized by many. But when it […]

Saturday, March 26, 2022 He is an extinct species expert and the author of over a dozen books highlighting rare and extinct species. He has co-authored a book with Sir David Attenborough, Drawn From Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise. He possesses the most enviable collection of Victorian taxidermy […]

Saturday, April 2, 2022 A virtual visit to one of the most remote places on our planet with Stewart McPherson. Stewart will introduce you to the unique and amazing cultures and tribes of New Guinea and surrounding islands, covering: - the crocodile clan of the Sepik River - the Baining fire dancers - the shark […]

Saturday, April 9, 2022 One of the most widely distributed and undoubtedly most fascinating fish species in Connecticut is also one of the least observed—the American Eel. The American Eel engages in spawning migrations exactly opposite of that of the salmon.  It swims to sea to spawn.  This enigmatic species was found just about everywhere […]