Please join us for this fun free family-oriented event sponsored every two years by the Eightmile River Wild & Scenic Coordinating Committee in celebration of the Eightmile River. Come visit the Lyme Land Trust and the Lyme Pollinator Pathway display.

Bluegrass Music- Hosmer Mountain Boys
Great Food- Moodus Sportsmen’s Club provides the chili, chowder and cider and Eightmileboard members provide the cookies….LOTs of COOKIES!
Great Fun- Birds of Prey, Native Reptiles, and more family activities
Great Information-Displays sponsored by local and state organizations including the Lyme Land Trust and Lyme Pollinator Pathway

Rain cancels. Check eightmileriver.org for updates.

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Come help install native plants  in a plot that is being controlled to eradicate Invasive Japanese knotweed. Learn about the process by pitching in.

On this site, we have completed three years of Nix the Knotweed, which is three cuts for three years. We are going to fill the vacuum formed by the weakened knotweed with native plants to compete with and hopefully prevent the knotweed from coming back. The knotweed roots are very weakened but it will come back without intervention and maintenance. With invasive plant control, one must either nurture the native plants that emerge naturally or plant new native plants to replace the invasives.

Bring gardening tools such as shovels, trowels, gloves. Bring bottle of water to drink. Snacks will be provided.

Registration Appreciated: (walk-ins welcome)
Meet  by the bridge over Whalebone Creek Rte 148.  trughouse@comcast.net

Raindate: Sunday September 24, 1:00-3:00

Sponsored by the Town of Lyme, Lyme Pollinator Pathway, Friends of Whalebone Cove, and Lyme Land Trust.

Welcome to the first Tuesday Trek with Quinn! We’ll take a leisurely 0.7 mile hike through the Roaring Brook Preserve. We are going to enjoy the journey; bring your field guides and cameras. Meet at the entrance on Day Hill Rd. Park along the side of the road.

Contact: ryan.p.quinn@gmail.com

View the Tuesday Trek Schedule

Young or old, experienced, or totally unfamiliar, we look forward to exposing you to our uniquely dark skies here in Lyme. We have several different telescopes that are on display including a 14″ Schmidt-Cassegrain housed in a permanent observatory.

Registration required. Upon registration you will receive a link to directions and observing session guidelines.

For more information and to register: Astronomy Events

In this presentation, coastal habitat specialist Juliana Barrett will explore the make-up of riparian buffers and why they are a critical component of both our coastal and inland communities. Riparian buffers are vegetated areas that occur along the edges of rivers, streams, lakes, and other wetlands. They play a critical role in water resources, water quality and in watershed protection, provide habitat for a wide array of wildlife, and assist with climate change adaptation. Because of the transitional nature of riparian buffers (wet to dry), these areas allow for a variety of non-traditional landscaping choices.

Juliana Barrett, PhD, became a member of the Connecticut Sea Grant Program in 2006.  As an ecologist, her focus is the conservation, restoration and enhancement  of coastal habitats of Connecticut. She is also involved in climate adaptation with communities throughout Connecticut. She recently published a guide to Connecticut’s Sandy Shores. Juliana will be happy to sign the book which will be available for purchase at the program, cash or check $18.00

Come see the colors of early fall in the meadow and check out what the beavers are up to. About 2.5 miles. Meet at Hartman Park Field Entrance, (about 1/2 mile north of the main entrance) Gungy Rd.

Contact: openspace@townlyme.org

View the Tuesday Trek Schedule

Meet at the terrace of the Castle.

Caitlin Vickers has been a gardener most of her life, and providing local gardens through her business,  the Barefoot Gardener.

Please join the Lyme Pollinator Pathway for a tour of the newly installed gardens at Gillette Castle. Caitlin Vickers, the Barefoot Gardener and Lyme Pollinator Pathway team member, who designed and installed the garden with Nancy Ballek of Ballek’s Garden Center, will guide the tour from 12:00 to 1:00 pm. For those who wish to pitch in to weed and learn before the tour, please come at 11:00 am. The beautiful gardens are mostly native plants beneficial to pollinators and other wildlife. Caitlin will answer questions about the plants and talk about future plans for the gardens.

11:00- 12:00 – Hands-on weed and learn. Bring tools and buckets.
12:00-1:00 – Tour of the gardens.

Submit up to three of you favorite photos to share. The Lyme Land Trust program Imagining Lyme: A Visual Exploration of Lyme’s Preserves encourages everyone to expand their visual awareness and highlight the beauty of the Lyme preserves owned by the Lyme Land Trust, the Town of Lyme and the Nature Conservancy by taking photographs prompted by inspiration from professional photographers and artists. Photographers do not have to be residents of Lyme but all photos must be taken in Lyme in any of these places:

1. Lyme Preserves owned and/or managed by the Lyme Land Trust, Town of Lyme, The Nature Conservancy, and the State of CT.  View a map of the preserves
2. Pollinator/wildlife habitat with native plants- May be in a backyard, preserve or in a Lyme Pollinator Pathway garden in Lyme, CT.
3. Trail 53 – The clear sky above Lyme.

The deadline for the Summer category-photos taken in the Summer–is September 30, 2023. For more information. 

This walk has been postponed from 10 am to 2 pm.

Join us for this fascinating walk with Bill Yule, naturalist and amateur mycologist, to walk, talk, and collect mushrooms. Bill will explain about forest and watershed ecology and all things fungal. After the walk, specimens will be examined and identified and questions answered. Bring mushrooms from home for identification.

Space is limited. Register: education@lymelandtrust.org

Please note that Macintosh Rd parking access is only via Mt Archer Rd – bridge is closed. Map and brochure

“For those who hunger after the earthly excrescences called mushrooms.”

Bill Yule has been active in mycological education for 30 plus years and has given many education programs throughout the country. He is a retired High School Biology teacher and Environmental Educator. In addition, he taught Ecology and Environmental Education at The Connecticut River Museum for 20 years and worked on three environmental educational boats on the CT River. He is a member and educator for three local “Mushroom clubs”, Connecticut Valley Mycological Society, COMA (CT/Westchester Mycological Association) and PVMA (Pioneer Valley Mycological Association) as well as a past Board of Directors member of the North American Mycological Association. 

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