Hitchcock Harvest 2026
Hitchcock Harvest: Creating community resilience
Harvesting hope for more than 60 years – one petal at a time!
Sunday, October 18, 2026
3 PM – 6 PM
Rain or shine at Hitchcock Center
The Hitchcock Center has been sowing seeds of change and educating for a healthy planet in the Valley for more than 60 years. Come together in community to enjoy local food & libations and wander through interactive stations themed around the petals of the Living Building — Place, Water, Energy, Health & Happiness, Materials, Equity, and Beauty. See what local innovators, and Hitchcock Center, are doing to show what it means to shape a hopeful, resilient future.
Follow the petals of possibility at each petal station — learn about each petal in practice; respond to a prompt at each petal station and help create a visual representation of a resilient community, collect all 7 stamps at each station and get a full drink & be entered into a raffle!
It was another wonderful Harvest. Thank you for helping us celebrate 10 years in our living building!
Event schedule:
3:00 – 5:00 PM Sample beer and cider; taste curated wine with wine experts; Harvest buffet; mingling; visit sustainability innovators at petal stations (collect your stamps!); & silent auction (inside)
4:00 – 5:00 PM | Buffet meal in the Den (new location); continue visiting stations
5:00 PM |Reflections on Hitchcock, Billy Spitzer, Executive Director & Koby Gardner-Levine, Regional Manager, Congressman Jim McGovern & HCE Board Chair, honoring PV2, and dessert, in the Discovery Yard
5:30 PM | Silent Auction Closes
Your support has a huge impact. To give a gift that helps the Hitchcock Center develop hopeful, creative problem solvers who can take on the challenges of climate change, please donate any amount.
Hitchcock Harvest Auction
This year, you can bid on the Harvest Auction online!
A major highlight of our annual Harvest celebration is the silent auction. This October, bid on passes to Amherst Cinema, free services at Amherst Tire, gift baskets from Tommy Car and Patagonia, gift cards to local restaurants like Gombo in Northampton and Greathorse in Hampden, wares from local artists, gifts crafted and baked by Hitchcock Staff members, and much more.
We’re taking auction donations this summer! If you have an item to share, please email Kim or Shelly.
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