Event type: Archive

Learn to ID trees, even without their leaves! Winnakee Land Trust president Bob Davis will lead this walk through Ferncliff Forest and demonstrate how its old-growth collection of northern hardwoods—maple, ashe, oak, hickory, birch and beech among them—can be accurately identified, even in the dead of winter. We’ll also see evidence of the beavers who’ve […]

Do you love to be outside and get your hands dirty? Join us for an afterschool garden club led by CLS parent Kaitlin Doherty and the team at Dirty Gaia! Together we’ll sow and grow our very own square-foot gardens. Along the way we’ll explore life within the soil, create garden art, stretch with garden yoga, taste test the herbs and veggies, enjoy a garden feast and have lots of fun! Students will take their edible gardens home at the end of the program. Register through Chancellor Livingston elementary school.

A midwinter celebration for gardeners! Along with a seed swap, we'll set you up to grow tasty greens and native flowers outdoors—right now. Join us at Morton Memorial Library in Rhinecliff on Saturday, February 3 2024 from 3:00-5:00pm.

Get your garden ideas percolating! Join us for Ask a Gardener: A Food Growers' Roundtable and hear what our panel of farmers and gardeners have to say about everything from soil and compost to growing in small spaces to interplanting for pollinators and more. Bring your questions! Thursday, March 14, 2024, at Morton Memorial Library in Rhinecliff. Click on the link below to register. Thanks!

Dirty Gaia is excited to be participating in the Rhinebeck Science Foundation's Discovery Festival on November 4, 2023! Join the team at Dirty Gaia to get your hands in the dirt to support habitat restoration by creating native wildflower seed balls.

Join experienced forager James O'Neill of Deep Forest Wild Edible for a walk through Vlei Marsh, a veritable supermarket of medicinal and nutritional greens and fungi this time of year.

Native plants are essential for healthy, climate-resilient ecosystems. Learn plant identification and responsible seed collection techniques.

Explore the magic worms can work on soil and plant health and how to raise and care for them. Your garden will show its appreciation—dramatically!

Want to turn the tide toward a greener planet? Get into the dirt! This inspiring documentary shows how. Join us on Wednesday, August 23 at 5:15 PM for a free screening of Kiss the Ground at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck.

Discover the layered ecological diversity of Rhinebeck's Vlei Marsh, a critical habitat for birds, plants and animals, with ecologist Erik Kiviat, director of Hudsonia.