Past Events
Tuesday Trek: CANCELLED
Time: 9:30 -11:30ish am
Place: Hartman Park, Gungy Road, Lyme CT
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Presenter: Wendy Hill
Chestnut Hill Preserve/Nehantic State Forest to Uncas Lake and back. About 2.5 miles. Roadside parking at Chestnut Hill entrance, Sterling Hill Rd, Lyme.
Reserve a spot: openspace@townlyme.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, 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.
Eastern Coyotes in CT
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Lyme Public Library
Contact Email: programreg@lymepl.org
With Paul Colburn, Master Wildlife Conservationist. Paul Colburn will provide strategies for co-existence with coyotes. He’ll also focus on the history of coyotes in CT and give an overview of habitat, diet, behavior, and reproduction.
Please register on the website: lymepl.org, call the library at 860-434-2272 or register in person
This program is co-sponsored and funded by the Friends of the Lyme Public Library.
This program is free and open to all. To see poster.
Tuesday Trek: Plimpton Preserve
Time: 9:30 am -11:30ish am
Place: Plimpton Preserve, Sterling City Rd, Lyme CT
Contact Email: anthonyinlyme@gmail.com
Presenter: Tony Irving
Plimpton Preserve–Some steep hills, but short hike to overlook. 1.75 mile loop with some walking on the road. Park across from the entrance on the side of Sterling City Rd. near Old Stone Post Rd.
To reserve a space: 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.
Changed to Zoom–Propagating Pollinator Plants from Seed
Time: 3:00 pm
Place: Zoom–register to get a link for the program
Contact Email: education@lymelandtrust.org
Including native plants in your garden is a great way to help pollinators. Expand your native plantings inexpensively by growing them yourself from seed. Join the Lyme Pollinator Pathway for this workshop with Jim Sirch where we’ll discover different germination requirements for different kinds of seeds and how to plant a plastic milk jug filled with a seed selection to stratify over the winter. Proper after-care will be discussed. Save your empty gallon milk jugs.
Registration required: education@lymelandtrust.org. The zoom link will be mailed to you. (First 20 registrants can pick up a small bag of potting soil & selection of native seeds provided by Jim, after 1/19/22 at the Lyme Public Library; there will also be a few gallon milk jugs available for those without.)
Jim Sirch is the Education Coordinator at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Jim was past president and currently on the board of the Hamden Land Conservation Trust and the CT Native Plant Working Group. A certified CT Master Gardener, Jim gives talks throughout the state on gardening for pollinators and growing native plants from seed and is dedicated to helping improve backyard biodiversity. Jim was featured in the Members Making a Difference section of the Summer 2016 issue of the American Horticultural Society’s American Gardener magazine. Jim also authors a weekly nature blog called Beyond Your Back Door.
Co-sponsored by the Lyme Land Trust, Lyme Garden Club, and the Lyme Public Library.
New Year 2022 Hike with John Pritchard
Time: 1:30-3:00 pm
Place: Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve
Contact Email: johnfpritchard43@gmail.com
Start the New Year off with a refreshing hike in the Lyme woods. This walk was postponed from January 1 due to the weather.
- Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve with John Pritchard. White trail to orange to purple, yellow and back through various habitats and past an old abandoned quarry. About 2 miles. Meet at Brockway-Hawthorne parking lot, Brush Hill Rd., Lyme.
Register: johnfpritchard43@gmail.com
For more information about the preserves and directions.
Walk is moderately easy. Everyone is welcome. Times are approximate. Allow extra time. Bring a bottle of water. Inclement weather cancels.
Tuesday Trek: Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve
Time: 9:30 am -11:30ish am
Place: Brockway Hawthorne Preserve, Brush Hill Rd. Lyme Ct
Contact Email: sue.cope@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Sue Cope
Brockway Hawthorne–Walk by beautiful stone walls and long-abandoned farmland. Meet at Brush Hill Road parking lot
To reserve a space: 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.
Winter Wonders Forest Bathing
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm
Place: Pleasant Valley Preserve, McIntosh Rd, Lyme CT
Contact Email: regan@reganstacey.com
Step outdoors and enjoy a winter wonders forest bathing walk. As we walk along the wintery meadows, cedars, and pine forest of Pleasant Valley Preserve, you’ll be offered invitations to connect with nature along the way. A relaxing and peaceful stroll that will surprise you with all that is present this time of year. The walk concludes with a wild-foraged tea. The walk is about 1-mile over easy to moderate terrain.
Registration: $32 ~ includes the program and tea.
Lyme Land Trust members receive 15% off with the discount code LLT15.
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
CANCELLED-Tuesday Trek: Jewett Preserve
Time: 9:30 am -11:30ish am
Place: Jewett Preserve cemetery entrance, Mt Archer Rd., Lyme CT
Contact Email: Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Kristina White
Jewett Preserve–White trail loop to orange trail and back. See some interesting rock walls and formations. About 1.75 miles. Park at the cemetery entrance.
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.
Hiking Club for Middle Schoolers
Time: 1:30-3:00 pm
Place: Register to learn the location. A different preserve each week.
Contact Email: reganstacey@gmail.com
Join our group for middle school-aged children. Come hike the trails! Every month the hike will be an adventure to explore the natural world at a different preserve. Get out and be curious!
Environmentalist/artist Regan Stacey currently runs the Tree Collective, a program for teens, and the Middle School Hiking Club. She offers forest bathing and mindful nature connection in the local area as well as co-founding The Forest Therapy School.
CANCELLED–Pitch Pine: Talk & Walk with Emery Gluck
Time: 1:00 - 2:00ish pm
Place: Register to learn location, Lyme CT
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
This walk has been cancelled due to winter conditions. We will reschedule.
Join retired DEEP forester Emery Gluck for a talk and walk to a rare stand of pitch pine on the ledges above Selden Creek. Pitch pine, also known as candlewood, was once a common tree on the Connecticut landscape. It provided torches for early settlers (hence the name Candlewood), as well as lumber, tar, and turpentine; and is host to rare wildlife. Now, because of loss of habitat, it is a very uncommon sight. On the site we will visit, pitch pine thrives because of human intervention. Emery Gluck will explain how human forest management promotes the survival of trees like pitch pine.
We will walk ½ mile off-trail, partly on private land, to get to the site with a breathtaking overlook of Selden Creek and the CT River, on the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge. Wear long pants and sturdy shoes. Bring your own water.
Sponsored by the Lyme Land Trust and Town of Lyme.
Registration required. When you register, you will be told the location to meet: openspace@townlyme.org
