Past Events
October Astronomy Observing Session
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Place: Register to learn location
Contact Email: scott.mallory@gmail.com
Young or old, experienced or totally unfamiliar, we look forward to exposing you to our uniquely dark skies here in Lyme. Our last session was amazing. We had strong attendance, and it included children and adults, locals and visitors. (A family from California visiting family in Lyme are our official farthest-from-home attendees.) 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. scott.mallory@gmail.com. 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
Tuesday Trek: Chestnut Hill Preserve and Nehantic State Forest
Time: 9:00 am -11:00 am
Place: Park by Chestnut Hill Preserve entrance on Sterling Hill Rd.
Contact Email: kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Kristina White
3 plus miles – walk up to Brown’s Hill where there are old foundations and stone walls from different periods.
View the Tuesday Trek Schedule
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are about two hours and are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather. Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Lyme Volunteer Fair
Time: 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Place: Lyme Public Libby, 482 Hamburg Rd., Lyme
Contact Email: holly@hollyrubinoedit.com
Donate Your Time for a Better Lyme. Learn how you cna make difference in Lyme! More than 30 Lyme affiliated non-profits, associations, boards, and commissions will be represented – where you can volunteer and be of service to our town.
Cider and cider donuts will be served.
All are welcome.
FULL – Fungal Ecology Walk–Introduction to Mushrooms with Bill Yule
Time: 10:00 am-12:00ish pm
Place: Banningwood Preserve, 19 Town Street, Lyme CT
Contact Email: education@lymelandtrust.org
This walk is full. Please send an email to be put on the waiting list.
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
“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.
Visit Bill Yule’s Facebook Page
Tuesday Trek: Thatch Preserve
Time: 9:30 am -11:30 am
Place: About 1.5 miles. Follow the red trail into the preserve and out to the yellow loop. Pause at the picnic table on the red trail to view the foliage and autumn activities on the beaver pond before ascending back towards the parking area.
Contact Email: sue.cope@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Sue Cope
About 1.5 miles. Follow the red trail into the preserve and out to the yellow loop. Pause at the picnic table on the red trail to view the foliage and autumn activities on the beaver pond before ascending back towards the parking area.
Contact: sue.cope@lymelandtrust.org
View the Tuesday Trek Schedule
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are about two hours and are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather. Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Forest Immersion and Yoga Retreat
Time: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Place: Banningwood Preserve, 19 Town Street, Lyme CT
Contact Email: regan@reganstacey.com
Join us on a daylong retreat as we awaken our senses, move into our bodies, and celebrate our connection to the natural world. Through the combined practices of forest bathing and gentle yoga we’ll welcome deep relaxation and cultivate healing relationships with ourselves, each other, and the Earth. We’ll come into a sense of aliveness with all of life as we receive the gifts of fall. Along the trail, we’ll gather to enjoy tea together and share a mid-day lunch provided in Diana’s field. Please bring a water bottle and wear comfortable clothing. No Yoga mats needed.
Registration: $85 ~ includes the program, lunch, and tea
Register here.
Heavy rain cancels. In the event of a rain cancellation you’ll be notified and we’ll hold the retreat on October 23rd.
To find out more about Banningwood Preserve, please click here.
Regan Stacey is a certified forest therapy guide, mindfulness meditation teacher, and co-founder of The Forest Therapy School, reconnecting humans to nature for the betterment of themselves, their communities, and the planet. She believes we all can awaken the forest within.
Erin Day, owner of Ten Summit Yoga & Earth Based Wellness in East Hampton CT, is a Yoga mentor, herbalist, greenspirit practitioner and ethical wildcrafter. She lives and practices in harmony with the rhythms of nature.
Fall Bird Migration Presentation
Time: 4:00 pm
Place: Hadlyme Public Hall, 63 Ferry Rd, Lyme CT
Contact Email: fowchadlyme@gmail.com
Cardboard Sheet Mulching 101-How to Prepare a Native Garden Bed
Time: 9:00 am -11:00 am
Place: Reeds Landing, Old Hamburg Rd., LymeCT
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Join the Lyme Pollinator Pathway and New England Pollinator Gardens for a crash course in cardboard sheet mulching smother technique! Learn organic mulching tips and strategies that you can use in your own yard this fall to prepare your next native pollinator garden.
Fall is the perfect time to begin preparing a planting site for next spring. When performed appropriately and using the correct cardboard, sheet mulching is a safe and sustainable process that smothers existing turf grass and invasive plants. When left over the winter, you will have a “blank canvass” to plant with native plants in the springtime.
Start collecting larger sheets of clean brown cardboard without glossy surfaces or glues adhered to the surface. Pull off tape. Ideal sheet sizes range 4ft x 6ft or so , though smaller sizes can also be deployed.
Please bring the cardboard with you Saturday morning.
Bring gloves and garden tools. We will ted the rain garden, too.
Please register: openspace@townlyme.org
Lymes’ Senior Center Take-A-Hike Thursday with Wendy Hill
Time: 9:30 am -12:00ish pm
Place: John Lohman Preserve, 33 Coult Lane, Old Lyme Ct
Contact Email: sgould@oldlyme-ct.gov
Parking is along the road. A short steep incline opens to a beautiful expanse of meadow. We will walk along the mowed path to reach our destination, Whale Rock, a spectacular outcropping with views of Lord Cove and the CT River. Bring your binoculars. 1.5 miles. John Lohman Preserve.
Reservations are required. Please email sgould@oldlyme-ct.gov or call 860-434-4127 to reserve your spot.
On the 2nd Thursday of each month the group will get together at various hiking areas in Lyme and Old Lyme. Hikes will be led by Wendy Hill, Open Space Coordinator of Lyme and the Vice President of Lyme Land Trust. The walks are moderate, unless otherwise noted. Bring a water bottle, dress for the weather and a hiking stick or pole if you would like. Everyone welcome. Inclement weather cancels the hike.
Sponsored by the Lyme’s Senior Center.
Tuesday Trek: Plimpton Preserve
Time: 9:00 am -11:00 am
Place: Park across from the entrance on the side of Sterling City Rd. near Old Stone Post Rd.
Contact Email: anthonyinlyme@gmail.com
Presenter: Tony Irving
Some steep hills, but short hike to overlook. 1.75 mile loop with some walking on the road.
View the Tuesday Trek Schedule
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are about two hours and are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather. Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
