Seed Dumpling Workshop
Great Hollow Nature Preserve 225 CT-37, New Fairfield, CT, United StatesJoin us and our co-hosts, the Climate Reality Project and Hilltop Hanover Farm, as we make seed balls that you can plant to support native wildflowers and pollinators. All seeds that we will use have been harvested locally at Hilltop Hanover Farm in Yorktown Heights, NY. Come learn how you can improve the quantity and
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Winter Tree & Shrub ID Walk
Great Hollow Nature Preserve 225 CT-37, New Fairfield, CT, United States** Postponed to a TBD future date. Please check back for updates or email to express your interest in signing up ** Identifying trees by their leaves can be easy, but how do you tell one species from another during the 6 months that trees in Connecticut have no leaves? Come down to Great
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*Sold Out* Kids’ February Drop-in Day
Great Hollow Nature Preserve 225 CT-37, New Fairfield, CT, United StatesYour school may be closed, but Great Hollow is open! Come join us for a day of winter exploration! We’ll go on hikes and get creative with crafts while learning about the changes occurring in nature this time of the year. This is a full-day drop-off program open to children ages 7-10. Registration is $50
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Learn How to Make Maple Syrup!
Great Hollow Nature Preserve 225 CT-37, New Fairfield, CT, United StatesMaple syrup season has arrived! Come to Great Hollow and find out how you can make maple syrup right in your backyard. We’ll learn how to identify and tap maple trees, hang buckets, and collect sap, and then finally, how to boil it down and filter it. Best of all, we’ll have the opportunity to
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Kids’ Drop-off Program: Maple Sugaring
Great Hollow Nature Preserve 225 CT-37, New Fairfield, CT, United StatesHow does tree sap become maple syrup? How does maple syrup become maple candy? Come join us for an afternoon of exploration and learn all about maple sugaring and maple trees! We'll even get to sample some syrup made right at Great Hollow. This is a drop-off program open to children ages 7-12. Registration is
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2025 Art Show Submission Deadline
Great Hollow Nature Preserve 225 CT-37, New Fairfield, CT, United StatesWe're looking forward to receiving your submissions for the 8th Annual Juried Painting and Photography Show, to be held at Great Hollow's Gate House Barn the weekend of May 16 to 18. Midnight on April 15 is the deadline to submit up to four images of local rural landscapes, wildlife, flowers, etc., using the submission
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*SOLD OUT* Kids’ Egg Hunt on the Lawn
Great Hollow Nature Preserve 225 CT-37, New Fairfield, CT, United StatesSaturday, April 19 Ages 4-6 | 12:00 – 12:20 Ages 7-10 | 12:30-12:50 Kids & caregivers, join us for a special egg hunt on the lawn as part of our Spring Fling & Earth Day Extravaganza. This is a bring your own basket event and the cost is $5 per child. Space is limited and
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Spring Fling and Earth Day Extravaganza
Great Hollow Nature Preserve 225 CT-37, New Fairfield, CT, United StatesJoin us for a fun day of family activities and demonstrations to celebrate Earth Day! There will be demonstrations about composting and beekeeping, a hands-on seed bomb station, crafts for kids, a silent auction, and more. Our friends from the New Fairfield/Sherman animal shelter next door will also be on hand with some adorable dogs
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Kids’ Drop-off: Mother’s Day Gifts
Great Hollow Nature Preserve 225 CT-37, New Fairfield, CT, United StatesMother’s Day is coming up and we’ve got you covered! In this drop-off program, we will be making a wooden flower craft and fused glass necklace* for a special adult in your child’s life. In between crafting we will learn all about nature’s most famous animal mothers. Registration is $10 per child for family-level members
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2025 Juried Art Show
Great Hollow Nature Preserve 225 CT-37, New Fairfield, CT, United StatesThe Great Hollow Photographers Club's annual Juried Painting & Photography Show features amazing scenes of local nature captured in photographs, paintings, collages, drawings, and digitally augmented art by talented artists from all over Connecticut, New York, and beyond. Now in its 8th year, the show is one of the region’s most popular and prestigious art exhibitions.
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