Every year, the Great Hollow Photographers Club creates a wall calendar with spectacular nature photography from our preserve and the surrounding area. The deadline to submit your photos for consideration for the 2025 calendar is midnight on Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. There is no charge to enter.  Click here to submit your photos. And anyone
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Join accomplished artist and teacher, Sharon Nakazato, for a plein air art day at Great Hollow. All artists are invited to capture the beauty of Great Hollow through drawing, painting, or photography. Great Hollow provides an array of subjects for plein air artists, including open wetlands, a babbling brook, forested trails, and historic barns and
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Join accomplished artist and teacher, Sharon Nakazato, for a plein air art day at Great Hollow. All artists are invited to capture the beauty of Great Hollow through drawing, painting, or photography. Great Hollow provides an array of subjects for plein air artists, including open wetlands, a babbling brook, forested trails, and historic barns and
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**This program is currently full**. Calling all Sherman families! While the Sherman School is closed on the 27th, your kids are welcome to come join us for a day of fall exploration. During this full-day drop-off program, we'll go on hikes, get creative with crafts, and learn about the many changes occurring in nature this
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Celebrate fall migration with a special bird-banding demonstration by Great Hollow ornithologists, Dr. Chad Seewagen and Dr. Sarah Deckel, at the Connecticut Audubon Society's Deer Pond Farm Sanctuary. Participants will receive a close-up look at how federally and state-permitted researchers safely catch migrating songbirds, mark them with identification bands, and collect measurements and other basic
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The Town of New Fairfield has scheduled a Town Fair on the same day we had planned to have Hollow Fest, and rather than trying to compete with this other, larger event in town, we have decided to simply join the Town Fair as a participating organization. We'll have an informational table, a kids' crafting
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**This event is sold out** Kids, join us for a twilight hike to the waterfall where we’ll learn cool facts about Halloween and some of the animals associated with it. After our hike we’ll do some fun Halloween crafting and then make s’mores. This is a drop-off program open to children ages 7-12; registration is
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Join us for a unique hiking experience where history meets nature! On this special guided hike of the Roxbury Land Trust's Mine Hill Preserve, we’ll visit 19th century relics of the area's iron-mining history and then make our way to the old mines that are now important homes to hibernating bats. You can read more
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Kids, join us for an afternoon of hiking and cider pressing! We’ll start with a light hike to visit Great Hollow’s apple trees and talk about the changes trees go through this time of year. We’ll then learn how apples become cider using our old-fashioned cider press and fill small bottles that you can take
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