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  • Hitchcock Climate Action Series: Workshop

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

    Hitchcock Climate Action Series: Workshop Season 1: Coming Together in the Face of Climate Change: Laying the Groundwork by Building Hope, Practicing Action, and Improving Communication  Please join us as we launch a new program series at the intersection of climate change, sustainability, and environmental justice.  Bringing partners and community members  to address critical community […]

  • Hitchcock Climate Action Series: Fireside Chat

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

    Hitchcock Climate Action Series Season 1: Coming Together in the Face of Climate Change: Laying the Groundwork by Building Hope, Practicing Action, and Improving Communication  Please join us as we launch a new program series at the intersection of climate change, sustainability, and environmental justice.  Bringing partners and community members  to address critical community issues […]

  • Fall Birding Course with Scott Surner

    Adult Programs

    Join the Hitchcock Center's beloved Fall Birding Class with birding extraordinaire, Scott Surner. This fall class will consist of ten field trips to various locations in the Connecticut River Valley, plus three coastal areas. Scott will help you work through the confusing plumages of fall warblers, and the streak and unstreaked plumages of fall sparrows. […]

  • Hitchcock Climate Action Series: Community Forum

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

    Hitchcock Climate Action Series Community Forum: Improving Communication: Deliberative Dialogue Thursday, December 8,  5:30pm Arrival & Snacks  6pm – 8pm Forum – Net Zero: How Do We Get There? Join in a deliberative dialogue about different ways in which we can get to a “net zero carbon” future. Deliberation matters because democracy depends on community members coming […]

  • Fall Birding Field Trip with Scott Surner

    Fall Birding Field Trip with Scott Surner

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

    Fall Birding Class with Scott Surner  August 24 – October 26, 2024 Birding in the fall is just as wonderful as birding in the spring, see hawks migrating, fall warblers, waterfowl migration and more.  Join lifelong birder Scott Surner as well as other local birders to get out and enjoy nature, birds and the company […]

  • Fall Birding – Classroom Program

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

    Fall Birding Class with Scott Surner  August 24 – October 26, 2024  (Plus optional add on November weekend trip)  Birding in the fall is just as wonderful as birding in the spring, see hawks migrating, fall warblers, waterfowl migration and more.  Join lifelong birder Scott Surner as well as other local birders to get out […]

  • Lecture & Wild Mushroom Cooking Demo

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

    Indoor Slideshow -Lecture & Wild Mushroom Cooking Demo  with The Mushroom Hunting Foundation Saturday, August 31, 1pm – 3pm at the Hitchcock Center Learn from Ryan Bouchard and Emily Schmidt, New England’s leading mushroom hunting teachers.  Using a slideshow of their own incredible all-local photography, Ryan and Emily will explain the basics of wild mushroom science […]

  • Fall Birding – Classroom Program

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

    Fall Birding Class with Scott Surner  August 24 – October 26, 2024  (Plus optional add on November weekend trip)  Birding in the fall is just as wonderful as birding in the spring, see hawks migrating, fall warblers, waterfowl migration and more.  Join lifelong birder Scott Surner as well as other local birders to get out […]

  • Fall Birding Field Trip with Scott Surner

    Fall Birding Field Trip with Scott Surner

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

    Fall Birding Class with Scott Surner  August 24 – October 26, 2024 Birding in the fall is just as wonderful as birding in the spring, see hawks migrating, fall warblers, waterfowl migration and more.  Join lifelong birder Scott Surner as well as other local birders to get out and enjoy nature, birds and the company […]