An April Adventure for the Whole Family
Grab the family and Spring Outdoors with us this weekend! Acorn Adventure: Letterboxing 101 April 10, 1 pm Camp Laurel, Lebanon, CT Do you like to search for treasure? Letterboxing is a family-friendly hobby that gets you outside to follow the clues and find the…
Spring Outdoors in Scenic Scotland
Enjoy an early morning hike in scenic Scotland. Little River Loop Hike April 17, 9 am Rain date: 5/1, 9 am Pudding Hill Road, Scotland, CT Join us on a peaceful hike down and back to the Little River, with a trip to a pristine…
Board Members Needed
The Last Green Valley, Inc. is seeking board members who love living or working in The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor. If you believe the region is extraordinary for its combination of open spaces, working farms, history and culture and want to learn more,…
New Round of Funding Available for Massachusetts Landowners to Conserve Woodlands in the Southern New England Heritage Forest
The Last Green Valley, Inc. and the MassConn Sustainable Forest Partnership/Opacum Land Trust are pleased to announce a new application round for Massachusetts landowners in the Southern New England Heritage Forest (SNEHF) to conserve their woodlands. This program is part of an unprecedented three-state effort…
Ready, set, hike!
“Hiking is not escapism; it’s realism. The people who choose to spend time outdoors are not running away from anything; we are returning to where we belong.” — Jennifer Pharr Davis, Explorer, Author, Speaker The first day of spring 2021 dawned as a glorious cloudless day…
The Magnificent Great Horned Owl
“Every night the owl with his wild monkey-face calls through the black branches, and the mice freeze and the rabbits shiver in the snowy fields— and then there is the long, deep trough of silence when he stops singing, and steps into the air.” —…
Time to Spring Outdoors
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” — Rachael Carson, The Sense of Wonder Saturday, March 20 at 5:37 a.m. is the vernal equinox and the first day of…
Finding Beauty in March
“Now is that sweet unwritten moment when all things are possible, are just begun. The little tree has not quite leafed. The mate is not yet chosen. To the rambler in the woods all that he can find in heavy books will be of less…
Garden Thoughts and Seed Catalogs
“I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.” — Henry David Thoreau, from “The Dispersion of Seeds,” 1860-1861 One of the joys of winter is the arrival of seed catalogs in…