Spinach in the Winter?! Growing Greens in a High Tunnel
Join Chewonki farm/educator Lisa Beneman to learn all about winter cultivation of greens in a high tunnel.
Day: April 22, 2020
Wiggly Worms, Our Earth-bound Friends
Join Chewonki wildlife program coordinator Emma Balazs and a handful of delightfully wiggly friends.
At Home With Sparky, the Great Horned Owl
Come visit Sparky the owl in his home at the Chewonki Wildlife Center! See how we design these homes to remind the animals of their wild homes.
Plowing the Fields with a Suffolk Draft Horse
Join Lisa Beneman and Megan Philips for this live demonstration of horse-powered plowing, featuring Bob!
Turn Your Eyes to the Skies with Kyle
The wonders of nature are all around us… including overhead! Join Kyle Wonser for a fascinating chat about the night sky and the constellations wheeling above us.
Meet our Yearling Cows
Join Chewonki farm and woodlot manager Megan Phillips to learn about our yearling cows.
Animal Senses, They’re Amazing!
Join Chewonki wildlife educator Kyle Wonser to talk about amazing animal senses. They see, hear, and feel things we would never notice!
A Whale of a (Skeleton) Tale!
Join Chewonki wildlife educator Jess Woodend to learn all about the skeletons of the largest animals on our planet: whales!
As the Crow Flies
Chewonki Traveling Natural History Program educators are looking forward to giving people a greater appreciation for American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) with the help of our two new resident crows, A and Z (proper names to come). They arrived at Chewonki from a Verona, Pennsylvania, wildlife rehabilitation center, where both were delivered as hatch-year birds in …
Izzy Janzen: Finding Her Way to Waypoint
Izzy Janzen joined the Chewonki Waypoint Program in September as the leader of the third cohort of Regional School Unit 1 (RSU 1) students to participate in this experimental program. Janzen is leading the seventh-grade cohort this year in extra-curricular activities designed to support them and help them develop high expectations of themselves. Janzen works …
