Join Menunkatuck Audubon and CPEN as they host the Fall 2024 All Things Pollinator with educational booths, kids’ activities, give-aways, and sale of plants from the UrbanScapes nursery.

Huge Native Plant Sale
Over 60 species

Exhibitors include:

• Menunkatuck Audubon- Bird Friendly Native Plants

• Highstead Ecotype Plants and Mason Bee Habitat

• CT-NOFA, ECO 59, Ecotype Project- Native ecotype seed- Food and Pollinator Connection

• Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

• Pollinator Pathway- Pollinator Pathways in CT

• WildOnes- Landscaping with Natives

• Xerces Society- Pollinator Education and Children's Activities

• See a Bee Hive and Meet the Beekeeper

• Learn How to Identify Native Plants Using Your Smartphone

Join Menunkatuck Audubon Society at the Henry Whitfield State Museum in Guilford for Nature Stewards Field Day. We will share information about our local conservation work and have plants from UrbanScapes Native Plant Nursery for sale.

Owls and turtles and bees, oh my! See live animals and discover ways to be a better nature steward from people doing the work.

• Well-Comb Home will display an observation beehive and have their local honey and beeswax products for sale.

• See – and even pet – some of Turtle Haven’s rescued and rehabilitating turtles.

• Learn how to help save displaced and orphaned wildlife with Little Rascals Rescue and Rehabilitation & Raccoon Crossing, Inc.

• See monarch butterflies and discover more about native plants and creating pollinator pathways with Quercus Works Gardens.

Special presentations will take place throughout the afternoon. At 1:00 pm, meet a Great Horned Owl, Peregrine Falcon, Eastern Screech-Owl, and Broad-Winged Hawk in a birds of prey presentation by Rose Crisci of Blue Moon Raptors. Angelina Carnevale from Turtle Haven will introduce some of her turtle ambassadors and talk about how to help wild turtles and pet turtles thrive at 2:00 pm. Tour the museum’s 4-month-old native pollinator garden at 3:00 pm with Heather Bradley from Quercus Works Gardens to find out how she installed it and chose the different plants.

A craft area will feature supplies and instructions to make shadow drawings from nature. All ages are invited to pick up their supplies and then explore the museum’s beautiful grounds to find their artistic subject, whether it’s a branch of a majestic red oak tree, a bloom on a native plant in the pollinator garden, or anything else that inspires them.

Admission to the program, the Whitfield House, and the exhibit galleries is free and the event will be held rain or shine. Support provided by Connecticut Humanities.

Join Menunkatuck, the Land Trust of West Haven, and  ArtsWest CT for a reception with introductions to neighbors who are active tribal members, authors, environmental advocates, and researchers,

There will be a discussion with Q&A to learn more about their work, our community, and each other.

Join Highstead, Menunkatuck Audubon, and CPEN as they host the Fall 2024 All Things Pollinator with educational booths, kids’ activities, give-aways, and sale of plants from the UrbanScapes nursery.

Tentative exhibitors include:

• Highstead — Ecotype Project, Sowing Seeds and Transplanting

• CT-NOFA —Eco-region 59, Ecotype Project, Native ecotype seed, Food and Pollinator Connection

• Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station — How to Survey a Flower Garden for Bumble Bees

• Pollinator Pathways — Pollinator Pathways in CT

• Wiggle Room — Worms and Healthy Soils

• Menunkatuck Audubon — Bird friendly native plants

• Audubon Connecticut — Bird friendly native plants

• WildOnes — Landscaping with Natives

• Kellogg Environmental Center — Kids Exploration Pollinators

• New Haven Public Free Library — Seed library

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The Guilford Keeping Society invited Menunkatuck to sell plants from UrbanScapes Native Plant Nursery at their June 8 fundraiser.

We will bring a selection of the perennials and shrubs that we are growing at our nursery in New Haven. All of the plants are straight natives, no cultivars or nativars.

We will also have information about the important role that native plants play in the environment and other measures that you can take to help create healthy and viable ecosystems and habitat for people, birds, and other wildlife.

Fun, free, family-friendly activities at Newhallville’s Learning Corridor.,

• Bird Walks

• Bird-friendly Gardening Tips

• Native Plants for Sale

• Scavenger Hunt

• Information about New Haven’s Urban Oases and Schoolyard Habitats

• Learn about the amazing distances that some birds travel in migration

• Kids’ activities

• Pancake breakfast 10:00-12:00

Live Raptor Show - 12:30

Live bird shows are not being offered because of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.

Sponsored by Audubon Connecticut, Menunkatuck Audubon Society, and Community Placemaking Engagement Network.

The Guilford Conservation Commission is sponsoring a community-wide Earth Day Celebration on Guilford Town Green on Sunday afternoon, April 21, 2024 from 1:00 – 4:00. Menunkatuck will be there.

These celebrations will honor the environmental legacy and spirit of the first Earth Day, which was held on April 22, 1970, by acknowledging the seriousness of today’s climate crisis and by affirming the ways in which residents of our town, region, and state are responding to the environmental crisis of human-caused global warming.

Join us to learn about our conservation programs including native plants for natural climate solutions, marsh migration, homes for birds, and lights out.

Join Menunkatuck Audubon and CPEN as they host the Fall 2032 All Things Pollinator with educational booths, kids’ activities, give-aways, and sale of plants from the UrbanScapes nursery.

Huge Native Plant Sale
Over 60 species

Exhibitors include:

• Menunkatuck Audubon- Bird Friendly Native Plants

• Highstead Ecotype Plants and Mason Bee Habitat

• CT-NOFA, ECO 59, Ecotype Project- Native ecotype seed- Food and Pollinator Connection

• Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

• Pollinator Pathway- Pollinator Pathways in CT

• WildOnes- Landscaping with Natives

• Xerces Society- Pollinator Education and Children's Activities

• See a Bee Hive and Meet the Beekeeper

• Learn How to Identify Native Plants Using Your Smartphone

Menunkatuck and UrbanScapes Native Plant Nursery will participate in BentFest 2023.

Join us at Bent of the River Audubon Center, with our conservation partners, for other fun-filled nature festival for all ages! The festivities will include:

• Live Music

• Live Bird of Prey Show

• Educational and local Exhibits (including Homegrown National Park and a Book Trail activity for children—featuring The Mouse and the Meadow, written and illustrated by Chad Wallace)

• Children's Crafts

• Bird Banding Demonstration

• Bird Watching

• Hayrides

• Gator Rides

• Vendors

• Libations

• Picnicking in the Meadow

• And More!

Join Menunkatuck Audubon and CPEN as they host the second All Things Pollinator with educational booths, kids’ activities, give-aways, and sale of plants from the UrbanScapes nursery.

Exhibitors include:

• Highstead — Ecotype Project, Sowing Seeds and Transplanting

• CT-NOFA —Eco-region 59, Ecotype Project, Native ecotype seed, Food and Pollinator Connection

• Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station — How to Survey a Flower Garden for Bumble Bees

• Pollinator Pathways — Pollinator Pathways in CT

• Wiggle Room — Worms and Healthy Soils

• Menunkatuck Audubon — Bird friendly native plants

• Audubon Connecticut — Bird friendly native plants

• WildOnes — Landscaping with Natives

• Kellogg Environmental Center — Kids Exploration Pollinators

• New Haven Public Free Library — Seed library

COVID-19 requirements will be observed.

Pollinator Pathways aims to increase awareness about the importance of planting native pollinator plants and rethinking and shrinking nonnative turf lawns. Get inspired by the beautiful, low-maintenance plants as well as the butterflies, native bees, and songbirds that depend on them! Learn tricks and tips for getting started or for taking your existing pollinator garden to the next level.

There are six beautiful open gardens on this year's tour. This tour is free to all and self guided, and no registration is required. Start at any location and visit as many as you like between 10 AM and 2 PM on Saturday, June 25. Hosts will be available to talk with you about their gardens. There will also be an educational component at each garden.

UrbanScapes Native Plant Nursery will be selling a selection of our perennials and shrubs at 701 Maple Hill Rd, Guilford.

Check sites.google.com/view/pollinatorpathways for more details.

COVID-19 requirements will be observed.

(Rain date: Sunday, June 26.)

Join Menunkatuck Audubon and CPEN as they host the second All Things Pollinator with educational booths, kids’ activities, give-aways, and sale of plants from the UrbanScapes nursery.

Exhibitors include:

• Highstead — Ecotype Project, Sowing Seeds and Transplanting

• CT-NOFA —Eco-region 59, Ecotype Project, Native ecotype seed, Food and Pollinator Connection

• Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station — How to Survey a Flower Garden for Bumble Bees

• Pollinator Pathways — Pollinator Pathways in CT

• Wiggle Room — Worms and Healthy Soils

• Menunkatuck Audubon — Bird friendly native plants

• Audubon Connecticut — Bird friendly native plants

• WildOnes — Landscaping with Natives

• Kellogg Environmental Center — Kids Exploration Pollinators

• New Haven Public Free Library — Seed library

COVID-19 requirements will be observed.

The West River Memorial Park is a designated IBA (Important Bird Area) and is part of the New Haven Harbor Urban Refuge Partnership. The Urban Oasis here improves annually, and the Osprey platform has been active with the same male-female pair for many years. By this time in June, the chicks will have hatched and be visible on the nest, with parent birds providing a show of fishing and feeding. Our experts will all be on hand to provide information on the amazing recovery of this once-endangered species. 

CANCELLED

On Sunday, May 17 from 12:00 am-5:00 pm , Menunkatuck Audubon Society and Audubon Connecticut will participate in Massaro Farm’s Celebrate Spring Festival. Come learn about what Audubon is doing in the region for birds and people. Find out what can do to make your home bird-friendly.

Join us for this emergency Fundraiser to help put out the blazing fires in Australia. Our immediate focus is on helping wildlife rehabilitators in Australia cope with financial and resource needs.