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ESI Course: Intro to Spring Wildflowers
Harris Center & local field sites 83 King's Highway, HancockThis four-session workshop with wildflower enthusiast Wendy Ward combines classroom instruction and field trips to build your skills in identifying spring ephemeral wildflowers and deepen your appreciation for the science, and joy, of botanizing.
Spring Wildflowers at Distant Hill Gardens
Join spring wildflower enthusiasts Michael Nerrie and Nate Marchessault for a leisurely walk at Distant Hill to admire cultivated spring ephemerals and search nearby trails for early-season wild blooms and other signs of spring.
Monadnock Region City Nature Challenge
Join iNaturalist enthusiasts Steven Lamonde and Nate Marchessault for the Monadnock Region’s first annual participation in the City Nature Challenge — a fun celebration of biodiversity that also contributes valuable observations to the iNaturalist database.
ESI Course: Intro to Spring Wildflowers
Harris Center & local field sites 83 King's Highway, HancockThis four-session workshop with wildflower enthusiast Wendy Ward combines classroom instruction and field trips to build your skills in identifying spring ephemeral wildflowers and deepen your appreciation for the science, and joy, of botanizing.
ESI Course: Intro to Spring Wildflowers
Harris Center & local field sites 83 King's Highway, HancockThis four-session workshop with wildflower enthusiast Wendy Ward combines classroom instruction and field trips to build your skills in identifying spring ephemeral wildflowers and deepen your appreciation for the science, and joy, of botanizing.
ESI Course: Intro to Spring Wildflowers
Harris Center & local field sites 83 King's Highway, HancockThis four-session workshop with wildflower enthusiast Wendy Ward combines classroom instruction and field trips to build your skills in identifying spring ephemeral wildflowers and deepen your appreciation for the science, and joy, of botanizing.
Spring Beauties of Partridge Woods
Join avid hikers Kathy Schillemat and Rick Church to hike the Town of Nelson’s Partridge Woods, where we’ll search for ephemeral wildflowers and other signs of spring along the Ridge Trail.
ESI Course: Introduction to Herbal Energetics
Join Vermont herbalist Erica Marie Coston for an immersive exploration of herbal energetics — an invitation to tune into the living language of plants and your own inner landscape. Through taste, observation, and reflection, you’ll learn to recognize your own energetic tendencies and what helps bring you back into balance.
Herbalism for Families
Join Vermont herbalist Erica Marie Coston for a hands-on exploration of common New Hampshire herbs, where you’ll taste a range of flavors and explore how these wild plants can help support our bodies. For families with children ages 6 and up.
A Monadnock Gardening Day: Dinner with the Presenters
Hancock NH, United StatesMeet the presenters for Saturday’s Monadnock Gardening Day: Gardening for Sanity workshop — Fergus Garrett, Matt Mattus, Katia Lysy, and Taylor Johnston — and fellow garden lovers for a special dinner hosted by Eleanor Briggs in Hancock, featuring cocktails in the garden and a buffet meal by chef Sam Rule of Fiddleheads Cafe.
A Monadnock Gardening Day: Gardening for Sanity
Harris Center for Conservation Education 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH, United StatesSpend an inspiring day with gardening experts Fergus Garrett, Matt Mattus, and Katia Lysy, facilitated by Taylor Johnston of issima, as you explore fresh ideas about gardens, plants, and life — with coffee, snacks, and a Fiddleheads Cafe lunch included, plus books and botanical wares from special guest vendors.
Garden Conservancy Garden Tour
Dublin, Peterborough, & Hancock Hancock, New Hampshire, United StatesTour four stunning private Monadnock Region gardens — from intimate terraces to Japanese-inspired landscapes and off-the-grid plant paradises — during this self-guided day of inspiration, culminating in a Digging Deeper talk with Bill and Eileen Elliott on growing food and cultivating plants from around the world.
