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  • Snow Season “Spooning” – Woodcarving with Ken Benton

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    Learn the story behind the wood as we go from log to spoon. By the end of the day you’ll come away with a nearly finished spoon with a built in story to tell dinner guests while serving food.

    $60
  • Wildlife Tracking Club

    Wildlife Tracking Club

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    Explore with NBNC naturalists and fellow nature lovers in search of wildlife tracks and sign every Sunday morning this winter.

  • Moose Tracking Hike and Bushwhack Adventure for Teens

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    Embark on high-adventure in the Worcester Range by tracking moose through the woods with Ana Maria and Ash. Maybe we'll see one! We'll definitely have snacks.

    $10

  • River Conservation in a Floodier Future with Kassia Randzio & Erin De Vries

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    Climate change will bring more floods and more droughts, with impacts felt by our communities and absorbed by our rivers. But with 7,000 miles of rivers in Vermont, where are the best places to protect land for maximum flood resilience?

  • Winter Wildlife Tracking 101 (Rescheduled to Feb 7)

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    From bobcats to hawks, all animals leave sign of their activities. Join NBNC naturalist and tracker Ana Maria Arroyo as she introduces you to the fundamentals of tracking and awareness to better understand the stories animals leave behind.

    $35

  • The Power of Water: Film Screening and Discussion with Bob King & Charlie Wanzer

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    “The Power of Water” follows the story of Bob King, a New Hampshire entrepreneur whose life’s work has been rehabilitating old abandoned dams to produce clean energy. Along the way, the film explores the history of hydropower in New England, the ongoing transition away from dirty fossil energy, the importance of land conservation, and how we all can be part of the solution as we face these challenges together.

  • Bird-Inspired Creative Drawing — Workshop with Rachel Mirus

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    Let your imagination take flight! In this workshop, we will look closely at feathers, build up a visual vocabulary for bird plumage, consider how illustrators reinvent vanished animals like feathered dinosaurs, then have project time for everyone to experiment with their own creative designs.

    $40

  • Spoon Carving for Teens

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    Design and carve a wooden spoon - from log to final product you'll have expert instruction in this skill workshop for teens.

    $10

  • Winter Wildlife Tracking 101

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    From bobcats to hawks, all animals leave sign of their activities. Join NBNC naturalist and tracker Ana Maria Arroyo as she introduces you to the fundamentals of tracking and awareness to better understand the stories animals leave behind.

    $35

  • Seabirding Along the Atlantic Coast – Winter Birding in Cape Ann, MA

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    This annual winter adventure is an outstanding opportunity to spend quality time with species rarely, if ever, seen in Vermont. This trip is not only about discovering rare species by land and sea, but about watching, enjoying, and studying seabirds among a community of like-minded nature lovers under the leadership of a first-class guide and educator.

    $740

  • ECO Homeschool Early Spring Session (Ages 6 – 12)

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    Inspired by ECO, our full-day ECO Homeschool program provides a meaningful and fun learning environment based in environmental education and a mentorship model.

    $510

  • Spring Afterschool Program

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    Let your kids be kids at NBNC. Our "Treksplorers" program offers kids a program fully immersed in nature, exploring the woods, fields and streams near NBNC. Play stealth and awareness games, learn outdoor skills and develop a sense of community with peers.

    $540

  • Riverside Wildlife of the North Branch: The Hidden Lives of Our Wild Residents

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    Through tracking, camera trapping, and quiet observation we can peer into the lives of NBNC's most secretive animals: foxes, felines, ravens, beavers, bears, and more. In this presentation, we'll go on a virtual exploration of the ecosystem to visit some of its wildest creatures and most interesting stories.

  • Drawing the Unseen: combining microscopes and drawing— Workshop with Rachel Mirus

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    In this class we will go on a micro-safari, hunting down these hidden microorganisms using microscopes and capturing them through observational drawing. After an orientation to the microscopes, Rachel will introduce some helpful and beginner-friendly drawing techniques for illustrating the tiny things that live in water and soil.

    $40
  • maple sap bucket

    Teen Sugaring and Woodcrafting

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    Boil sap, build a chair, wield saws/hatchets/knives and other instruments of woodcraft - this teen skills workshop has a lot to sink your teeth into!

    $10

  • Performance by TURNmusic: Music of Place and Planet

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    TURNmusic’s Watershed/Environmental Programs will blend artistic expression with community engagement to raise awareness about local watershed health and environmental concerns through music, workshops, and collaborative events. This initiative aims to connect audiences with environmental themes, inspiring appreciation for the natural world while fostering creative responses to ecological challenges.

  • April Break Camp 2026

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    Explore spring at North Branch Nature Center! Children grades K-3 are invited to join us for three days of spring nature adventures and explorations. We'll make art using natural materials, explore the fields and forest for signs of wildlife, try our hands at wild edible cooking, and give back to the land in celebration of Earth Day.

    $80 – $235

  • ECO Homeschool Late Spring Session (Ages 6 – 12)

    North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

    Inspired by ECO, our full-day ECO Homeschool program provides a meaningful and fun learning environment based in environmental education and a mentorship model.

    $510