Kick of the Labor Day Weekend under the dark skies of Lyme! 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

Please join us to help clear invasive plants around the Lee Farm foundation. Learn to identify different invasive plants to remove and native plants to preserve. Bring and work gloves, loppers, clippers, pruners, Mattocks, and anything else you think will be helpful. A weed wacker may be helpful. Please wear long pants.

Bring a bottle of water for yourself. Snacks will be provided. Inclement weather cancels.

We have mowed and weakened the Japanese barberry in the area around the ruins at the Lee Farm for a few years to encourage native vegetation to grow. Now it is time for us to go in and cut or pull out the invasives that are resprouting, and to trim around the stones. Learn to identify the  invasives to remove and native plants to preserve.

Registration appreciated (walk-ins welcome): openspace@townlyme.org 

Sponsored by the Town of Lyme and the Lyme Land Trust

In August, Take a walk down a long lane to visit an active beaver pond full of wildlife activity.  Map of Thach Preserve. Join Tori and family on the 4th Sunday of every month for a “mile-ish” hike geared towards families with children under 5, but no age limit!

Kindly email vharris1391@gmail.com to register with time preference.

Tori is a Mom of two littles – Kade, 3 yrs, and Quinn, 1 yr. Hiking and wandering in the local preserves, has really given her family the safe space to let Kade run loose and has a calming effect on Quinn. Working full time, volunteering in many organizations and finding time to enjoy the outdoors with the whole family, can be tough, but it is worth it!

Join our work party for the fourth year to remove invasive knotweed and other invasive plants, and tend the natives that have been planted in their place. Learn to control Knotweed on your own property. We will tend Reed Landing gardens, and check on the 50 plants that were installed at Union Triangle on the corner of Rte 156 and Old Hamburg Rd. We are in our fourth year of tackling the knotweed using the “method of 3s”: cut knotweed down to the ground and remove the plant material; 3 chops each growing season (May, mid-July, and mid-August). The cuttings must be carefully disposed of since each little piece will regrow into a new plant. The knotweed has been highly reduced where we have used this method but we still have to cut back the ones that persist and new ones that come up from seeds.

Bring work gloves, clippers or loppers. We’ll provide the bags! Bring your own water bottle. Snacks will be provided. 

Please register: (walk-ins welcome) Openspace@townlyme.org

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

Japanese knotweed is an invasive plant which crowds out native plants that pollinators and other wildlife depend upon for survival. For a brochure on Nix the Knotweed Method of 3s.

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

Please join us to help clear invasive plants around the Lee Farm foundation. Learn to identify different invasive plants to remove and native plants to preserve. Bring and work gloves, loppers, clippers, pruners, Mattocks, and anything else you think will be helpful. A weed wacker may be helpful. Please wear long pants.

Bring a bottle of water for yourself. Snacks will be provided. Inclement weather cancels.

We have mowed and weakened the Japanese barberry in the area around the ruins at the Lee Farm for a few years to encourage native vegetation to grow. Now it is time for us to go in and cut or pull out the invasives that are resprouting, and to trim around the stones. Learn to identify the  invasives to remove and native plants to preserve.

Registration appreciated (walk-ins welcome): openspace@townlyme.org 

Sponsored by the Town of Lyme and the Lyme Land Trust

Join Quinn, Lyme Land Trust board member, for a family friendly night hike (ages 5 and up). We focus on how our perceptions change and appreciate what night brings to the forests and ponds of Lyme. Our way will be lit by the almost full moon. We will not be using artificial light, but you are invited to bring an emergency flashlight. Dress warmly and bring a walking stick. 

Please register: ryan.p.quinn@gmail.com

Join our work party for the fourth year to remove invasive knotweed and learn to control Knotweed on your own property. We will be expanding our area of removal. Last year we planted more than 100 native plants to replace the knotweed. We will tend to those, also. We are following the “method of 3s”: cut knotweed down to the ground and remove the plant material; 3 chops this growing season. Don’t cut more often or it won’t weaken the extensive root system. The cuttings must be carefully disposed of since each little piece will regrow into a new plant.

We are seeing progress! The knotweed has been highly reduced.

Bring work gloves, clippers or loppers. We’ll provide the bags! Bring your own water bottle. Snacks will be provided. 

Please register: (walk-ins welcome) trughouse@comcast.net

Sponsored by the Lyme Pollinator Pathway and Friends of Whalebone Cove.

Japanese knotweed is an invasive plant which crowds out native plants that pollinators and other wildlife depend upon for survival. For a brochure on Nix the Knotweed Method of 3s.

NEW DATE!  This session will cater to the young since we will be working in twilight rather than full darkness. We will observe before dark and look at the craters and other features on the Moon. We will learn about the Moon’s phases and how its orbit around the Earth results in the phases we see. Once fully dark, we will swing the telescope around to look at a handful of prominent objects that are visible despite the Moon’s presence.

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

For more information and to register: Astronomy Events

Meet at the terrace of the Castle.

Register: education@lymelandtrust.org

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 gardens on the terraces 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. 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.