Calendar of Events
Harris Center for Conservation Education
Climate Cafe
Join Maria Finnegan, director of the Climate and Health Initiative for Caregivers and Kids (CHICKs), and Harris Center naturalist Susie Spikol for a facilitated small-group gathering to discuss the emotional and psychological impacts of climate change.
Homeschool Program: Wild at Home
Harris Center for Conservation Education 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH, United StatesCalling all animal allies, nature noticers, and outdoor explorers! Join Harris Center naturalists Karen Rent and Susie Spikol to let your wild side out this fall. Uncover your wonder, and let the natural world be your teacher. Birds, butterflies, salamanders, chipmunks, seeds — come discover it all.
Babies in Backpacks & Toddlers in Tow at the Harris Center
Harris Center for Conservation Education 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH, United StatesJoin Harris Center educator Jazimina MacNeil for these pint-sized adventures in Keene and beyond! Together, we’ll explore, wander, and discover the magic of nearby nature. This ongoing series is a great way to meet other families with little ones who love spending time outside.
A Gentle Pathway into Bird Studies: A Workshop for Teachers
Join Harris Center teacher-naturalists Janet Altobello, Jenna Spear, and Jaime Hutchinson for this fun and stimulating professional development workshop for teachers of all grades. We'll explore numerous ways to launch and sustain a schoolyard bird study. Whether you’re an experienced birder or a novice, you’ll come away from this workshop with the confidence that you can help your students discover the fascinating world of local birds
Homeschool Program: Wild at Home
Harris Center for Conservation Education 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH, United StatesCalling all animal allies, nature noticers, and outdoor explorers! Join Harris Center naturalists Karen Rent and Susie Spikol to let your wild side out this fall. Uncover your wonder, and let the natural world be your teacher. Birds, butterflies, salamanders, chipmunks, seeds — come discover it all.
Saving New England’s Native Plants: Inside the Plant Conservation Volunteer Program
Join Maria Kennedy from the Native Plant Trust to learn about the Plant Conservation Volunteer (PCV) program, a regional community science network that monitors rare plants, collects seeds, and undertakes habitat management projects with the goal of protecting the region's rarest native species.
Family Program: Rot-n-Roll with Wild Decomposers
Celebrate the fascinating world of decomposition with author Britt Crow-Miller and Harris Center naturalist Susie Spikol. From fungi and earthworms to slugs and slime molds, meet some real live wild decomposers during this marvelously moldy family event.
Book Launch: What the Chicken Knows by Sy Montgomery
Come celebrate the launch of Sy Montgomery's latest book, What the Chicken Knows. With its winning blend of personal narrative and science, this short, delightful book reveals all the things that make chickens such remarkable creatures.
What’s Wild: A Half-Century of Wisdom from the Woods and Rivers of New England by Eric Orff
Come celebrate the launch of Eric Orff's first book, What’s Wild, which features more than four dozen stories from his five-decade career as a wildlife biologist in New Hampshire.
Mushroom Meander with the Morel Quandary Club at the Harris Center
Join fungi-philes John Benjamin and George Caughey for a fungstatic foray at the Harris Center in Hancock. From boletes to amanitas, explore the fascinating world of fungi.
Mammal Evidence Investigations: A Workshop for Teachers
Join Harris Center teacher-naturalists Janet Altobello, Jenna Spear, and Jaime Hutchinson for this fun and stimulating professional development workshop for teachers of all grades. Who uses the gaps in a stonewall for shelter? Who prowls through our schoolyard at night? Where can we find evidence of wild mammals right outside our classroom? This workshop will inspire you to step outside and investigate New Hampshire’s wild land mammals just beyond your school door.
Early Winter Ramble for Veterans
Search for early signposts of winter in the Harris Center woods with naturalist Susie Spikol. We’ll take a slow meander to the Big Boulders, stopping to look and listen for winter bird calls, evergreen boughs, and evidence of mammals preparing for the cold months ahead. This hike is only for veterans.
Nature Observation Games: A Workshop for Teachers
Join Harris Center teacher-naturalists Janet Altobello, Jenna Spear, and Jaime Hutchinson for this fun and stimulating professional development workshop for teachers of Pre-K to grade 6. During this workshop, we’ll play a variety of outdoor games that focus on heightening our observation skills, and then create sets of materials that you can begin using the very next day with your class.
