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  • Repair Public: Fixery through Community – CANCELED

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    Repair Public is an exercise in community resourcefulness. The basic idea is to encourage people to learn how and/or where to fix broken items instead of tossing them into a […]

    FREE

  • Nature Play and Learning Places Garden Work Day

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    The Hitchcock Center is expanding its nature play area. Join this community effort and come help us dig, weed, plant, mulch, haul, etc. Bring tools and gloves if you have […]

    FREE

  • Nature Play Afterschool

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    Fall is here, and school has started, and your kids still want to be outside! Hitchcock’s Nature Play Afterschool Program is designed to let kids be kids. Together we will […]

    $295 – $365

  • Homeschool I: Incredible Insects (And Other Arthropods!)

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    Honey, we shrunk the homeschoolers! Get ready to become very tiny this fall as we get down on a bug’s level. At Homeschool I we’ll discover the insects and other […]

    $450 – $560

  • Homeschool II: Citizen Science!

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    Calling all future scientists! Citizen scientists are people — young or old — who help collect data for research projects. We will work with local researchers and on national science […]

    $450 – $560

  • Nature Play Afterschool

    Fall is here, and school has started, and your kids still want to be outside! Hitchcock’s Nature Play Afterschool Program is designed to let kids be kids. Together we will […]

    $380 – $475

  • What to do about Lymantria dispar (aka Gypsy Moths) – CANCELLED

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    Populations of Gypsy Moths (Lymantria dispar) have been building in the Valley during these last several years. Many of us have experienced this first hand. Come learn about this insect, its life cycle, […]

    FREE

  • Girls into the Wild

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    Sometimes you just need to run, explore and play outdoors! That’s what we do at Girls into the Wild, and lots more. Now going into its fifth year, Girls into […]

    $355 – $425

  • Nature Discovery Preschool: Mammal Friends

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    with Colleen Kelley Ages 3-5 (Adult required to attend with child) Fridays, Morning session: 9:30-11:30am September 14, 28 (no September 21) October 12, 19, 26 (no October 5) November 9, […]

    $205 – $255

  • Nature Discovery Preschool: Mammal Friends

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    with Colleen Kelley Ages 3-5 (Adult required to attend with child) Fridays, Afternoon session: 1:00-3:00pm September 14, 28 (no September 21) October 12, 19, 26 (no October 5) November 9, […]

    $205 – $255