Past Events
Regeneration and Growing-Ecologically Sensitive Gardening
Time: 2:00-3:30 pm
Place: Acton Library Community Room, 60 Old Boston Post Rd. Old Saybrook, CT
Contact Email: richmelchreit@gmail.com
The Sierra Club Connecticut Chapter Shoreline Group is holding a public forum!
Join Jim Arrigoni, the new Environmental Director of the Lyme Land Trust and formerly with the Connecticut Audubon Society, for a discussion on regenerative gardening. Learn how we can enhance and grow our landscape through gardening with native plants, individual action, group action, and networking
To register: Click here
Tuesday Trek: Burnham Brook Preserve, Dolbia Hill Rd., East Haddam
Time: 9:30
Place: Dolbia Hill Rd. Park by Preserve sign along the side of the road.
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Presenter: Wendy Hill
A 2.4 mile trail loop in pristine upland forest with a section along vibrant Burnham Brook. Directions: At the end of Rte. 156, take a right onto Rte. 82, travel 2.7 miles, take left onto Woodbridge Road, travel 1 mile (stay right), take left onto Dolbia Hill Rd. Park by Preserve sign along the side of the road.
Register: openspace@townlyme.org
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Tuesday Trek: Ravine Trail
Time: 9:00 am
Place: Park at Selden Creek Preserve parking lot on Joshuatown Road.
Contact Email: anthonyinlyme@gmail.com
Presenter: Tony Irving
Park at Selden Creek Preserve parking lot on Joshuatown Road. Beautiful ledges and overlooks. Some steep climbs and rocky trails.
Register: anthonyinlyme@gmail.com
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FULL – Lambing Time–Tour of Sankow’s Beaver Brook Farm
Time: 2:00 pm
Place: Sankow's Beaver Brook Farm, 139 Beaver Brook Road, Lyme CT
Contact Email: education@lymelandtrust.org
It’s lambing season at Sankow’s Beaver Brook Farm. Join us for a tour to visit with more than 100 little lambs. Beaver Brook Farm is a sheep and cow dairy farm producing cheese, milk and dairy products, as well as wool products and poultry. Come see the farm’s operations from taking care of lambs, milking the sheep and cattle, to making cheese right there on the farm.
Children are welcome.
Beaver Brook Farm has been home to the Sankow family since 1917. Situated on one hundred and seventy-five acres in Lyme, CT, it was originally worked as a dairy farm. In 1984, Stan and Suzanne Sankow introduced their first sheep, Sherry and Ding, to the farm. In 2022, they re-introduced cattle to the farm. They sell their products at the store on the farm, as well as at farmers markets and in local stores. As stewards of the land, the farm is committed to using local resources in a sustainable way to produce a nutritious product. Local farm products are fresher, are grown on healthy soils, and help reduce fossil fuel use because it doesn’t have to travel so far to be delivered. Having local farms is also important for food security, in case travel from distant farms is disrupted. The Beaver Brook Farm is protected by an agricultural easement from the State of CT.
Register: education@lymelandtrust.org This walk is full. Please email to be put on the waitlist
Please come dressed for mud & fresh air! Rain or shine
This is the third program in our Local Farm Series to highlight the importance of local food production and sustainability.
Sponsored by the Lyme Land Trust and the Town of Lyme.
Hello Spring! Forest Bathing
Time: 10:00 am- 12:00 pm
Place: Ravine Trail (Selden Entrance), Joshuatown Road, Lyme CT
Contact Email: regan@reganstacey.com
Celebrate the spring equinox with a guided forest bathing walk. Renew your connection with yourself and the Earth as we tap into nature’s rhythms and welcome the season of spring. The equinox, a gentle reminder to rest in the balance of the day, naturally invites a time to relax, renew, and ground for the season ahead. Invitations to connect with nature will be offered along the way. The walk is about 1-mile over easy to moderate terrain.
The walk concludes with a wild-foraged tea.
Registration: $33 ~ includes the program and tea
Register HERE
LLT members receive 15% discount with code LLT15
Rain or shine event. Challenging weather cancels.
Forest bathing is inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku – taking in the forest atmosphere. As a growing global wellness movement, it is backed by nearly 40 years of scientific research on the holistic benefits of immersing yourself in nature. These benefits include reduced stress and blood pressure, increased creativity and focus, improved mood and sleep, and a boost to immune functions. Regan Stacey is an artist and advocate for the Earth whose passion is to reconnect humans to nature for personal and planetary wellbeing. She is also co-founder of The Forest Therapy School, training forest therapy guides to share this work around the world. In her private practice, she offers forest bathing walks, mindful nature retreats, and mindfulness training. Find out more about her work at reganstacey.com
POSTPONED to March 18 – March Astronomy Observing Session
Time: 7:30-9:30 pm
Place: Register to learn location
Contact Email: astronomy@lymelandtrust.org
This program was rescheduled from March 17 to March 18 due to weather forecast.
Young or old, experienced or totally unfamiliar, we look forward to exposing you to our uniquely dark skies here in Lyme. The new observatory is in full motion. The Lyme Land Trust offers public viewing sessions once a month near the new moon. Our cohorts have several different telescopes that are on display for your observing pleasure, and we now are pleased to have a modern 14″ Schmidt-Cassegrain housed in a permanent observatory structure.
On any given night, public sessions will be co-facilitated by one or more of our talented cohort enthusiasts:
- Jon Dean
- Roger Charbonneau, Jr
- Scott Mallory
- Parag Sahasrabudhe
- Alan Sheiness
Reservations required. astronomy@lymelandtrust.org
Directions to the site and special guidance for those with heavy astronomy equipment will be provided upon registration. Park in the designated area and walk to the observing field with its amazing panoramic views of the heavens. Dress for temperatures 10-20 degrees lower than forecast for your comfort. No white lights at the field site, please.
For more information about the astronomy program See amazing astrophotography by Parag Sahasrabudhe – Velology blog
Tree Collective- Teen Steward Group Meet-up
Time: 1:00-3:30 pm
Place: Register to learn location
Contact Email: reganstacey@gmail.com
The Tree Collective is a program designed to engage young conservationists ages 14-18 in outdoor fun and education while working to maintain trails in our beautiful town of Lyme, CT. It is sponsored by the Lyme Land Trust under the leadership of environmentalist/artist Regan Stacey. Each time we meet, we offer a different topic, often with a hike and trail work in a selected preserve.
Tools and gloves provided.
Registration required: reganstacey@gmail.com.
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Tuesday Trek on Wednesday: Selden Creek Preserve
Time: 9:30 am
Place: Meet at Selden Preserve parking lot on Joshuatown Rd.
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Presenter: Wendy Hill
Meet at Selden Preserve parking lot on Joshuatown Rd. 2+ mile hike to beautiful vistas of Selden Creek and surrounding marshlands.
This walk was rescheduled from Feb 28.
Register: openspace@townlyme.org
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CANCELLED – Tuesday Trek: Thach Preserve
Time: 9:30 am
Place: Park in lot on 131 Brush Hill Road.
Contact Email: Jim.arrigoni@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Jim Arrigoni
Cancelled due to weather.
Park in lot on 131 Brush Hill Road. Still winter in the preserves but changes are happening. Come to Thach and let’s explore this short 1-mile loop to see what spring might be hiding for us just around the corner.
Register: jim.arrigoni@lymelandtrust.org
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FULL – Tour of Nehantic State Forest Management Project
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm
Place: Nehantic State Forest, Norwich Pond Parking Lot, Keeny Rd, Lyme
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
If you have walked in Nehantic State Forest recently, you may have noticed that several of the trees have been painted with blue marks. Join CT DEEP foresters Alexander Amendola and Frank Cervo, and retired forester Emery Gluck on a tour of an upcoming project being implemented by CT DEEP to promote habitat diversity as part of the State’s forest ecosystem management program. The walk is about 2 miles and moderately rugged with a few steep climbs and some rocky footing.
Register: openspace@townlyme.org This walk is full. Register to be placed on the waitlist.
Sponsored by Lyme Land Trust, Town of Lyme, and CT DEEP
