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  • Fireflies: Solstice Light Show

    Free; suggested donation of $15 This summer, the firefly show will be underway. BEEC invites you to up your firefly game. Between 20 and 30 species of fireflies inhabit the Northeast, each with a distinctive flash pattern. Learn to recognize a handful of the common flashers. Firefly displays can’t be […]

  • Whip-poor-wills by Moonlight

    This outing features a parade of oddities; the vast Montague Sandplains developed on a sandy delta that formed in Glacial Lake Hitchcock. This fire-prone land of scrub oak and pitch pine hosts birds that are rare elsewhere in our region, including grasshopper and vesper sparrows, prairie warblers, rufous-sided towhees, and […]

  • The Psychedelic Renaissance—Hope or Hype?

    Retreat Farm 45 Farmhouse Sq., Brattleboro, VT, United States

    In Partnership with The Retreat Farm's Wild Wisdom event series Suggested Donation of $10 At the Retreat North Barn Food and cash bar available Join a panel of experts to explore the possibilities and realities of psilocybin and other plant medicines, from healing potential to their impact on Vermont’s economy. Curious […]

  • Botany and the Body series: Forest and Field First Aid & Medicine Chest

    Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center 1221 Bonnyvale Road, Brattleboro, VT, United States

    $55 members/$65 non-members In the second workshop in our Botany and the Body series, we'll explore local plants and trees that can be used for first aid, including poultices, salves, oils, and rapid hydrators. Participants will explore the BEEC loop to identify these plants in their natural environment, then return […]

  • Botany and the Body series: Healing the Emotional Body on the Land

    Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center 1221 Bonnyvale Road, Brattleboro, VT, United States

    $55 members/$65 non-members In the third and final workshop in our Botany and the Body series, we'll explore how to nurture the emotional body through connection with the land. Participants explore practices for grieving and healing with the support of plants, trees, and the surrounding landscape. Deciduous and evergreen trees […]