Past Events
Hands-on Native Pollinator Garden Planting – Learn and Plant -Postponed from Oct 19
Time: 8:30-10:00 am
Place: Meet at Whalebone Creek, Rte 148, Lyme
Contact Email: trughouse@comcast.net
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
Sponsored by the Town of Lyme, Lyme Pollinator Pathway, Friends of Whalebone Cove, and Lyme Land Trust.
Tree and Shrub Identification at Honey Hill Preserve
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm
Place: Honey Hill Preserve
Contact Email: Jim.arrigoni@lymelandtrust.org
New England’s forests are justifiably famous for their dazzling fall foliage displays, but in addition to taking your breath away, did you know that the variety of colors and textures offers useful clues for identifying our local plant species? Lyme Land Trust Environmental Director Jim Arrigoni will point out helpful identification field marks on this gentle one-mile loop trail.
Binoculars and a hand lens will enhance your observational abilities, but are not required.
Registration required: jim.arrigoni@lymelandtrust.org
Park at Preserve entrance on Clark Road.
Tuesday Trek: Johnston Preserve
Date: Tue October 17, 2023Time: 9:00 am
Place: Johnston Preserve
Contact Email: Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Kristina White
Hike the fuschia loop, roughly 2.6 miles. See indigenous stoneworks while walking amongst the fall foliage. Meet at Johnston Preserve parking lot on Route 82.
Contact: Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
View the Tuesday Trek Schedule
Tree Collective- Teen Hike and 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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Eightmile RiverFest 2023
Time: 1- 4pm
Place: Devil's Hopyard State Park--Pavilion Area
Contact Email: pyoung@eightmileriver.org
Presenter: Eightmile River Wild & Scenic Coordinating Committee
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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Astronomy Observing Session
Time: Noon - 2pm
Place: Lyme Public Library
Contact Email: astronomy@lymelandtrust.org
=Registration Not Required=
Come watch the moon take a small bite out of the corner of the Sun as it passes between the Sun and the Earth. Unfortunately for us, this eclipse will be nowhere near full but we will watch the event unfold safely on a monitor that will be fed live images from a telescope fitted with a special solar filter. Learn what causes a solar eclipse and what it would look like from space peering down at the Earth, too.
For more information: Astronomy Events
Hands-on Native Pollinator Garden Planting – Learn and Plant
Time: 8:30-10:30 am
Place: Meet at Whalebone Creek, Rte 148, Lyme
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
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.
Fall Colors Forest Bathing
Time: 9:30-11:30 am
Place: Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve, Brush Hill Rd, Lyme CT
Contact Email: regan@reganstacey.com
Enjoy a gentle, mindful stroll as you awaken your senses to all that autumn has to offer. Celebrate the season and honor yourself this time of year. This guided experience includes a sensory awakening meditation, invitations to connect with nature, and concludes with tea together. The walk is about 1-mile over easy to moderate terrain.
Registration: $33 ~ includes the program and tea. Register here.
LLT members receive 15% discount with code LLT15.
Rain or shine event.
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, collective, and planetary well-being. She is co-founder of The Forest Therapy School, training forest therapy guides to share this work around the world. Find out more about her work at reganstacey.com
Questions? Email Regan at regan@reganstacey.com
Tuesday Trek: Roaring Brook
Date: Tue October 10, 2023Time: 9:00 am
Place: Roaring Brook
Contact Email: ryan.p.quinn@gmail.com
Presenter: Ryan Quinn
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
Astronomy Observing Session
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Place: Trail 53 Observatory
Contact Email: astronomy@lymelandtrust.org
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
