Educating Children Outdoors Book Launch and Art Gallery Reception

North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

Join us to celebrate the release of Educating Children Outdoors: Lessons in Nature-Based Learning by former NBNC Director of Education Amy Butler! We’ll also be celebrating the opening of our spring art show, featuring work from the book by local artist and illustrator Nick Neddo.

Natural Selections: a NBNC fundraiser

North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

An evening of poetry, prose, music, and photography featuring poets Scudder Parker (Safe as Lightning) and Marjorie Ryerson (The Views from Mount Hunger), short readings from essayist and field naturalist Bryan Pfeiffer, and music by D. Davis (guitar) and Ruth Einstein (violin).

Peents n’ Peeps – Spring Sounds at NBNC

North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

An evening of up close and personal listens and looks at springtime's most impressive crepuscular performances.  We'll attempt to creep up on spring peepers by following an individual peep amid the cacophonous chorus and try to pinpoint the peenting of american woodcocks before they lift off to perform their skydance.

Spring Family Nature Discovery Hike

North Branch Nature Center 713 Elm Street, Montpelier, Vermont

Come explore all the activity happening around NBNC on a Spring Discovery Hike. We'll listen to birdsong at a Sit Spot, see if we can find tadpoles or frogs in vernal pools, and look for flowers in the field as we take in all that spring has to offer.