Past Events

Our Annual Meeting 2022-LOCATION CHANGE

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Date: Fri June 17, 2022
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Lyme Public Hall, 248 Hamburg Rd., Lyme CT
Contact Email: Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
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Please join us for our 2022 Annual Meeting which will include nomination of one new Board member, annual financial report and presentation of the Volunteer of the Year Award. Steve Dedman of Plywood Cowboy will do a one hour acoustic set. Light refreshments will be served.

Registration required:  Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org


 

Please join us for our 2022 Annual Meeting which will include nomination of one new Board member, annual financial report and presentation of the Volunteer of the Year Award. Steve Dedman of Plywood Cowboy will do a one hour acoustic set. Light refreshments will be served.

Registration required:  Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org


 

Tuesday Trek: Pleasant Valley Preserve

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photo by Mal Karwoski
Date: Tue June 14, 2022
Time: 9:30 am -11:30ish am
Place: Pleasant Valley Preserve, McIntosh Rd. Lyme Ct
Contact Email: anthonyinlyme@gmail.com
Presenter: Tony Irving
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The early history of European agriculture and land use is epitomized here going back to the mid-1600’s.  There are also some fine examples of glacial activity and its impact on colonial land use practices.  Hike to the overlook, about three miles. Meet at the PV parking lot on Macintosh Road off Rt 156.

Contact:  anthonyinlyme@gmail.com

 

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 moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.

Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.

Inclement weather cancels.

 


The early history of European agriculture and land use is epitomized here going back to the mid-1600’s.  There are also some fine examples of glacial activity and its impact on colonial land use practices.  Hike to the overlook, about three miles. Meet at the PV parking lot on Macintosh Road off Rt 156.

Contact:  anthonyinlyme@gmail.com

 

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 moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.

Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.

Inclement weather cancels.

 


Lyme Pollinator Pathway Invites you to an Afternoon at Ballek’s Garden Center

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Date: Sun June 12, 2022
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm
Place: Ballek's Garden Center, 90 Maple Ave., East Haddam
Contact Email: Lymepollinator@gmail.com
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Plant This, Not That – better native and pollinator choices vs. invasives/ornamentals. 

  • 2:00-2:30 pm – Nancy Ballek will speak about which plants to choose for your pollinator friendly landscape.
  • 2:30-3:00 pm – Nancy will be available for advice on selecting plants.

Come early… for the food truck (open 10am-3pm)
Stay late… to browse and buy from Ballek’s extensive nursery stock & gifts

Register by emailing Lymepollinator@gmail.com

Limited to 40 participants – Each will receive a coupon for 10% off pollinator planters, Ballek’s selected pollinator/native plants for the event, and pots/containers.

Lyme Pollinator Pathway is an initiative of the Lyme SustainableCT Committee. The Lyme Land Trust is sponsoring member. 


Plant This, Not That – better native and pollinator choices vs. invasives/ornamentals. 

  • 2:00-2:30 pm – Nancy Ballek will speak about which plants to choose for your pollinator friendly landscape.
  • 2:30-3:00 pm – Nancy will be available for advice on selecting plants.

Come early… for the food truck (open 10am-3pm)
Stay late… to browse and buy from Ballek’s extensive nursery stock & gifts

Register by emailing Lymepollinator@gmail.com

Limited to 40 participants – Each will receive a coupon for 10% off pollinator planters, Ballek’s selected pollinator/native plants for the event, and pots/containers.

Lyme Pollinator Pathway is an initiative of the Lyme SustainableCT Committee. The Lyme Land Trust is sponsoring member. 


Spring Walk with Joe Standart, Photographer – Imagining Lyme

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Joe Standart
Date: Sat June 11, 2022
Time: 10:00 am-12:00 pm
Place: Pleasant Valley Preserve, McIntosh Road, Lyme CT 06371
Contact Email: education@lymelandtrust.org
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Enjoy the Beauty of Spring as part of our Imagining Lyme photography program. Join us on a walk guided by photographer Joe Standart. As we explore, Joe will give insight into his creative process in photography. Joe is an internationally recognized award-winning photographer and a Lyme Land Trust board member.

To reserve, a space on the walk, email: education@lymelandtrust.org

Imagining Lyme – A Visual Exploration of Lyme’s Preserves, is the Lyme Land Trust’s amateur photography programwhich encourages people to expand their visual awareness while highlighting the beauty of Lyme Preserves through photographs. Some of the rules have changed. There will be four seasonal deadlines in 2022. You do not have to reside in Lyme, but photos must be taken in Lyme at these places:

  1. Lyme Preserves owned and/or managed by the Lyme Land Trust, Town of Lyme, and The Nature Conservancy View a map of the preserves
  2. Pollinator/wildlife habitat– May be in a backyard, preserve or in a Lyme Pollinator Pathway garden in Lyme, CT.

The deadline for submission of Spring Photos is June 30, 2022. Three photos of distinction will be chosen.

 

 


Enjoy the Beauty of Spring as part of our Imagining Lyme photography program. Join us on a walk guided by photographer Joe Standart. As we explore, Joe will give insight into his creative process in photography. Joe is an internationally recognized award-winning photographer and a Lyme Land Trust board member.

To reserve, a space on the walk, email: education@lymelandtrust.org

Imagining Lyme – A Visual Exploration of Lyme’s Preserves, is the Lyme Land Trust’s amateur photography programwhich encourages people to expand their visual awareness while highlighting the beauty of Lyme Preserves through photographs. Some of the rules have changed. There will be four seasonal deadlines in 2022. You do not have to reside in Lyme, but photos must be taken in Lyme at these places:

  1. Lyme Preserves owned and/or managed by the Lyme Land Trust, Town of Lyme, and The Nature Conservancy View a map of the preserves
  2. Pollinator/wildlife habitat– May be in a backyard, preserve or in a Lyme Pollinator Pathway garden in Lyme, CT.

The deadline for submission of Spring Photos is June 30, 2022. Three photos of distinction will be chosen.

 

 


Climate Resilient Farming–Long Table Farm

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Photo from Long Table Farm website
Date: Tue June 7, 2022
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Place: Long Table Farm 258 Never Brook Road, Lyme CT
Contact Email: trughouse@comcast.net
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Come learn from farmer Baylee Drown at Long Table Farm about sustainable agriculture. Learn the ins and outs of ‘high tunnels’, building soil health, combining animal husbandry with vegetable growing, Community Supported Agriculture, and holistic agriculture.

Register: trughouse@comcast.net
Limited to 20 participants
Please come dressed for mud & fresh air! Rain or shine

Long Table Farm grows seasonal vegetables and fruits, and humanely raised meat. The Lyme Land Trust partners with Long Table Farm to carry on the traditional use of the agricultural lands the trust owns. On the Bloom Preserve on McIntosh, they grow potatoes and leeks and they maintain the Hand-Smith preserve property by mowing it yearly. They also farm on a six acre plot of land adjacent to Upper Mill Pond and the 4.6 acre plot on Beaver Brook in Lyme.

Baylee Rose Drown was raised on her families’ Holstien dairy farm in Michigan. She earned a Bachelors of Science from Michigan State Universities’ College of Agriculture and Natural Resources in 2009. Baylee picked up the organic farming bug in Vermont, where she worked at Green Mountain College’s diversified farm from 2009-2013. During Baylee’s time at Green Mountain she qualified the farm as Animal Welfare Approval and was active in the greater community by serving as a board member for the Stone Valley Food Coop. Baylee earned her Masters of Science in Sustainable Food Systems from Green Mountain College in 2014, as she was incorporating Upper Pond Farm as an LLC and turning the soil in Old Lyme for the first time.


Come learn from farmer Baylee Drown at Long Table Farm about sustainable agriculture. Learn the ins and outs of ‘high tunnels’, building soil health, combining animal husbandry with vegetable growing, Community Supported Agriculture, and holistic agriculture.

Register: trughouse@comcast.net
Limited to 20 participants
Please come dressed for mud & fresh air! Rain or shine

Long Table Farm grows seasonal vegetables and fruits, and humanely raised meat. The Lyme Land Trust partners with Long Table Farm to carry on the traditional use of the agricultural lands the trust owns. On the Bloom Preserve on McIntosh, they grow potatoes and leeks and they maintain the Hand-Smith preserve property by mowing it yearly. They also farm on a six acre plot of land adjacent to Upper Mill Pond and the 4.6 acre plot on Beaver Brook in Lyme.

Baylee Rose Drown was raised on her families’ Holstien dairy farm in Michigan. She earned a Bachelors of Science from Michigan State Universities’ College of Agriculture and Natural Resources in 2009. Baylee picked up the organic farming bug in Vermont, where she worked at Green Mountain College’s diversified farm from 2009-2013. During Baylee’s time at Green Mountain she qualified the farm as Animal Welfare Approval and was active in the greater community by serving as a board member for the Stone Valley Food Coop. Baylee earned her Masters of Science in Sustainable Food Systems from Green Mountain College in 2014, as she was incorporating Upper Pond Farm as an LLC and turning the soil in Old Lyme for the first time.


Tuesday Trek: Thach Preserve

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Date: Tue June 7, 2022
Time: 9:30 am -11:30ish am
Place: Thach Preserve, 131 Brush Hill Rd. Lyme CT
Contact Email: sue.cope@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Sue Cope
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Follow the ¼ mile woods road to this undeveloped and now preserved flag lot, perched perfectly along a secluded beaver pond. Watch for lots of wildlife on the pond as we pass by and then move into the wooded wetland area of dense laurels and a wonderful freshwater creek. About 1.25 miles.

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 moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.

Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.

Inclement weather cancels.

 


Follow the ¼ mile woods road to this undeveloped and now preserved flag lot, perched perfectly along a secluded beaver pond. Watch for lots of wildlife on the pond as we pass by and then move into the wooded wetland area of dense laurels and a wonderful freshwater creek. About 1.25 miles.

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 moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.

Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.

Inclement weather cancels.

 


Tour de Lyme 2022

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Joe Standart
Date: Sun June 5, 2022
Time: starting at 7 am
Place: Ashlawn Farms, Bill Hill Road, Lyme CT
Contact Email: kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Lyme Land Conservation Trust
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Please join us for the annual Tour de Lyme cycling event with beautifully scenic routes for all ages and levels. We’re looking forward to seeing you!

For more information, visit the Tour de Lyme webpage: TourDeLyme.org.

The Lyme Land Trust inaugurated Tour de Lyme in 2013 as an annual bike ride to raise funds to support its mission of preserving and protecting environmentally important land in Lyme.


 

Please join us for the annual Tour de Lyme cycling event with beautifully scenic routes for all ages and levels. We’re looking forward to seeing you!

For more information, visit the Tour de Lyme webpage: TourDeLyme.org.

The Lyme Land Trust inaugurated Tour de Lyme in 2013 as an annual bike ride to raise funds to support its mission of preserving and protecting environmentally important land in Lyme.


CT Trails Day – Pollinator Meadow Celebration for Families

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Photo by Sue Cope
Date: Sat June 4, 2022
Time: 11:30am - 1:30pm
Place: Riverside Preserve, Salem Rd., Lyme CT
Contact Email: Lymepollinator@gmail.com
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Let’s Celebrate on CT Trails Day! We took a Bee LYME from Spring 2021 to Spring 2022. Seed bombs that were created and sown in 2021 have sprouted and there are wildflowers growing in the meadow. Come see the pollinators at work. Join Lyme Pollinator Pathway for this family/kid-friendly program. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

              • Pizza Party by Lyme Land Trust
              • Pollinator Meadow Tours by Lyme Pollinator Pathway
              • T-shirts for the first 24 kids to register, sponsored by Lyme Youth Services Bureau (LYSB)

Register with LYSB

For more information, click on the poster to enlarge. This the 4th Bee Lyme to Spring 2022 event out of four events.

Sponsored by Lyme Land Trust and LYSB. 

 

 


Let’s Celebrate on CT Trails Day! We took a Bee LYME from Spring 2021 to Spring 2022. Seed bombs that were created and sown in 2021 have sprouted and there are wildflowers growing in the meadow. Come see the pollinators at work. Join Lyme Pollinator Pathway for this family/kid-friendly program. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

              • Pizza Party by Lyme Land Trust
              • Pollinator Meadow Tours by Lyme Pollinator Pathway
              • T-shirts for the first 24 kids to register, sponsored by Lyme Youth Services Bureau (LYSB)

Register with LYSB

For more information, click on the poster to enlarge. This the 4th Bee Lyme to Spring 2022 event out of four events.

Sponsored by Lyme Land Trust and LYSB. 

 

 


CT Trails Day – Intro to Forest Bathing – FULL

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Wendolyn Hill
Date: Sat June 4, 2022
Time: 10:00-11:15 am
Place: Banningwood Preserve, 19 Town St. Lyme, CT
Contact Email: regan@reganstacey.com
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THIS EVENT IS FULL.

Curious about forest bathing?  On CT Trails Day, come dip your toes into this Japanese-inspired practice of “taking in the forest atmosphere.”  Slow down, awaken your senses, and enjoy the wonders of nature as you deeply relax in the forest.   

On this 75 -minute intro to forest bathing walk, you’ll be guided on a gentle, mindful stroll. Along the way, your certified forest therapy guide, Regan Stacey, will offer you a series of sensory-opening “invitations” designed to help you connect with the natural world in your own authentic way.  Leave your stresses behind and connect with the healing powers of nature.

The walk is about a half-mile over easy to moderate terrain.

Rain or shine.

No charge. Registration required.  To Register, click here. 

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 environmentalist whose passion is to re-connect humans to nature for the betterment of themselves, their communities, and our planet, Earth.  She is also co-founder of The Forest Therapy School, training forest therapy guides to share this work around the world.  Locally, she is involved in a number of nature-based organizations and facilitates kids’ clubs through the Lyme Land Trust. You can find out more about her work at reganstacey.com   


THIS EVENT IS FULL.

Curious about forest bathing?  On CT Trails Day, come dip your toes into this Japanese-inspired practice of “taking in the forest atmosphere.”  Slow down, awaken your senses, and enjoy the wonders of nature as you deeply relax in the forest.   

On this 75 -minute intro to forest bathing walk, you’ll be guided on a gentle, mindful stroll. Along the way, your certified forest therapy guide, Regan Stacey, will offer you a series of sensory-opening “invitations” designed to help you connect with the natural world in your own authentic way.  Leave your stresses behind and connect with the healing powers of nature.

The walk is about a half-mile over easy to moderate terrain.

Rain or shine.

No charge. Registration required.  To Register, click here. 

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 environmentalist whose passion is to re-connect humans to nature for the betterment of themselves, their communities, and our planet, Earth.  She is also co-founder of The Forest Therapy School, training forest therapy guides to share this work around the world.  Locally, she is involved in a number of nature-based organizations and facilitates kids’ clubs through the Lyme Land Trust. You can find out more about her work at reganstacey.com   


Tuesday Trek: Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve

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Date: Tue May 31, 2022
Time: 9:30 am -11:30ish am
Place: Brockway Hawthorne Preserve, Brush Hill Rd. Lyme Ct
Contact Email: kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Kristina White
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We will begin at the Joshuatown Rd entrance and hike the purple to white trail and back. About 2.5 miles.  Park along the road opposite 452-2 Joshuatown Rd.

Contact: Kristina.white@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 moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.

Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.

Inclement weather cancels.

 


We will begin at the Joshuatown Rd entrance and hike the purple to white trail and back. About 2.5 miles.  Park along the road opposite 452-2 Joshuatown Rd.

Contact: Kristina.white@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 moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.

Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.

Inclement weather cancels.