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Little SELTies Storytime: Special Summer Garden Edition
2025-08-28 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
We welcome our Little SELTies to join us for a morning of nature stories, songs, and activities in the Garden at Burley Farms. Led by SELT’s Education Program Manager, Lizzy Franceschini, we will hold the entire program outside in the garden. This program is designed for children ages 0-5 and their caregivers.

Registration required: CLICK HERE

Garden Wild Play
2025-09-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Burley Farms, 247 N. River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join SELT’s Education Program Manager, Lizzy Franceschini, for a morning of wild play in the ATLAS Education Garden. Try out some farm chores, harvest and taste fresh vegetables, hang out in the sunflower fort, explore in the sensory corner, and simply have unstructured fun with friends outside. Open to children ages 0-8 with a caregiver present.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

OTTO Pizza (Exeter) Fundraiser for SELT
2025-09-15 11:00 - 22:00 | OTTO Pizza Exeter, 33 Water Street, Exeter, NH, 03833, United States
Come to OTTO Pizza in Exeter on September 15th and enjoy their excellent pies and support SELT.OTTO was founded on the promise of an elevated pizza experience – transforming an oft-uninspired staple food through carefully-sourced, high-quality, wholesome ingredients, and culinary-inspired recipes.More about OTTO can be found at https://www.ottoportland.com/

Vermicomposting Tutorial
2025-09-16 17:30 - 18:30 | Burley Farms, 247 N. River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
* THIS IS THE RESCHEDULED DATE (was originally June 18) *
🤔Does your home compost need an upgrade?🤔Have you been curious about a sustainable use for all those leftover vegetable scraps?🤔Are you a gardener or plant lover looking for a safe and effective alternative to chemical fertilizers? 🤔Have you heard of vermicomposting? 🤔
If these questions have you curious, then join us for a fun and informative discussion/demo by SELTie Jared Clark on his vermiculture hobby. Jared will talk about the benefits of vermiculture both to your garden and to the earth, how to get started with your own worm compost and his drawer system that he designed. He will be demonstrating his method of feeding the worms and harvesting castings from the self-contained worm bin as well as his process for making the compost “tea”. 🪱
This presentation will be indoors and outdoors, depending on the weather. We hope you join us for this fun, family-friendly event.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

Forest Fridays at Piscassic Greenway: Early Fall 2025 (Session 1 of 3)
2025-09-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Piscassic Greenway
Meet us at the Piscassic Greenway Gate 2 for a kid-led nature exploration as part of our Forest Friday series. This series will be led by SELT volunteer Loralise LoDolce. We will offer supervised kid-led exploration and unstructured outdoor play for kids aged 0-5 and their guardians. This series will take place rain or shine – be sure to dress appropriately for the weather, you’ll want to be comfortable being still, muddy, and/or wet. The Early Fall Session of Forest Fridays at Piscassic Greenway will be held on 9/19, 10/3, and 10/17.
This series is intended for kids aged 0-5 and their guardians.

Difficulty: Easy
Registration Required: CLICK HERE

Dover Pottery Studio at SELT
2025-09-24 17:30 - 20:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join us for a fun and unique experience making pottery at SELT. We will begin with a short 30-minute walk into the forest at Burley Farms to get natural items to use in making imprints on the pottery and then Kim Hanson, owner of The Dover Pottery Studio will lead a 2-hour pottery making session.
In this hands-on session, you’ll create your very own unique pottery creation using a variety of hand-building and clay construction techniques. This session is designed for all skill levels. After the session, Kim’s studio staff will glaze and fire your creations, making them ready for pick-up approximately four weeks after the workshop.
The event is limited to 20. The cost is $30 to cover material costs and glazing.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

Little SELTies Storytime: Early Fall 2025 (Session 1 of 3)
2025-09-25 10:00 - 12:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
We welcome our Little SELTies to join us for a morning of nature stories, songs, and activities in the Pratt Family Community Room at the Mathey Center at Burley Farms. Led by SELT’s Education Program Manager, Lizzy Franceschini, we will start our morning inside the community room with story time activities, then head outside for a short hike in the forest. This program is designed for children ages 0-5 and their caregivers. Storytimes for the early fall session will run on 9/25, 10/2, and 10/16.

Registration required: CLICK HERE

Fall Haul Trail Run with Treeline Outfitters at Stonehouse Forest
2025-09-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Stonehouse Forest
We are excited to partner with Treeline Outfitters for the Fall Haul Trail Run series this year. Join Treeline’s Emily Kwesell for a guided trail run in and around the magnificent forest at Stonehouse Forest. Expect to run around 4-6 miles at a conversational pace.
This is part 1 of 3 of this series. The other dates and locations include – 10/24 at Spruce Swamp and 11/14 at Harvey’s Kennard Hill Forest.

Registration Required – CLICK HERE
Difficulty: Strenuous (many hills and intended for runners with some trail running experience

Little SELTies Storytime: Early Fall 2025 (Session 2 of 3)
2025-10-02 10:00 - 12:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States

Forest Fridays at Piscassic Greenway: Early Fall 2025 (Session 2 of 3)
2025-10-03 10:00 - 12:00 | Piscassic Greenway

Supermoon Hike at Burley Farms
2025-10-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Burley Farms, 247 N. River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Let’s gather during the full Harvest Supermoon to amble over to the beaver dam and see what we will see. Hopefully, we’ll observe some beavers busy in and around the pond. We’ll appreciate a sunset and moonrise together at this special place. The rain date is October 7.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE
Difficulty: Moderate (some hills, tricky terrain in the dark)

SELTie Book Club - Fall 2025
2025-10-08 17:30 - 19:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
The SELTie Book Club is back! The book selection this time around will be Is a River Alive? By Robet Macfarlane and the discussion on October 8 will be led by SELTie Roanne Robbins. Our goal is to also have some tie-in Mathey Center programming related to this book in November and December.
Hailed in the New York Times as “a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler,” Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law.
Macfarlane takes readers on three unforgettable journeys teeming with extraordinary people, stories, and places: to the miraculous cloud-forests and mountain streams of Ecuador, to the wounded creeks and lagoons of India, and to the spectacular wild rivers of Canada—imperiled respectively by mining, pollution, and dams. Braiding these journeys is the life story of the fragile chalk stream a mile from Macfarlane’s house, a stream who flows through his own years and days.
Powered by dazzling prose and lit throughout by other minds and voices, Is a River Alive? will open hearts, challenge perspectives, and remind us that our fate flows with that of rivers—and always has.
We encourage you to get your copy from Water Street Books in Exeter either in person or online waterstreetbooks.com.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

Forest Fridays with Four Winds Nature Institute - Fall Session 1 (of 3)
2025-10-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Smith Flume, River Rd, Farmington, NH, United States
Meet us at the Smith Flume in Farmington for a kid-led nature exploration as part of our Forest Friday series. This series will be led by nature-based educators Karly Wilcox and Sara Deserres from Four Winds Nature Institute. We will offer supervised kid-led adventure and unstructured outdoor play for kids aged 0-5 and their guardians. This series will take place rain, snow, or shine – be sure to dress appropriately for the weather, you’ll want to be comfortable being still or muddy. The dates of the Fall Session of Forest Fridays at various Strafford County locations will be 10/10, 11/14, & 12/12.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE
Difficulty: Easy to Moderate (depending on the conditions)

Little SELTies Storytime: Early Fall 2025 (Session 3 of 3)
2025-10-16 10:00 - 12:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States

Forest Fridays at Piscassic Greenway: Early Fall 2025 (Session 3 of 3)
2025-10-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Piscassic Greenway

TrailFest 2025
2025-10-18 10:00 - 15:00 | Burley Farms, 247 N. River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
The region’s biggest FREE family event filled with outdoor fun! Bring the crew to Burley Farms for food, music, activities, workshops, wildlife presentations, nature walks, and much, much more!

Ghosts of Mount Washington
2025-10-22 18:00 - 19:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
We are excited to welcome back author Marianne O’Connor for some spooky season programming!
Come and listen to Marianne as she goes over some of the memorials on Mount Washington. Some of the actual memorials have some mysterious activity around them. Each memorial is a sad tale of tremendous loss. Marianne will share some stories related to “The Presence.” Some believe it’s a spiritual energy, maybe related to the many souls who lost their lives on the mountain. Marianne will talk about her trip on the Cog where she visited some of these moving memorials. The Cog Railway has an exhibit dedicated to Lizzie Bourne, the young woman from Maine who perished on the summit in 1855 (her memorial is pictured).
This program is recommended for ages 12 and up.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

After the talk, there will be a short period of time for book signing. Marianne will have copies of her Haunted Hikes of New Hampshire book available for sale.

Charles E. Rand Memorial Forest Fall Hike
2025-10-23 16:00 - 17:15 | Charles E. Rand Memorial Forest
Join us for a nice autumn walk at Charles E. Rand Memorial Forest in North Hampton. During this walk we will highlight some of the recent work that we’ve done on the trails and enjoy the nice fall weather.
Parking is limited at this location, so attendance will be limited to 10. If there is additional interest, we can investigate carpooling from a nearby spot.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE
Difficulty: Easy to Moderate

Fall Haul Trail Run #2 with Treeline Outfitters at Spruce Swamp Conservation Area
2025-10-24 16:00 - 17:30 | Spruce Swamp Conservation Area, Fremont, NH, United States
We are excited to partner with Treeline Outfitters for the Fall Haul Trail Run series this year. Join Treeline’s Emily Kwesell for round 2 that will include a guided trail run in and around the spectacular Spruce Swamp Conservation Area in Fremont and Brentwood. Expect to run around 4-6 miles at a conversational pace.
This is part 2 of 3 of this series. The third date will be on 11/14 at Harvey’s Kennard Hill Forest in Epping.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE
Difficulty: Strenuous (many hills and intended for runners with some trail running experience)

Mt. Molly Fall Hike
2025-10-25 09:00 - 13:00 | Collins Family Forest, North Shore Road, New Durham, NH, United States
Join us for an adventurous hike up to Mt Molly at Collins Family Forest. The anticipated length of the hike is 4.5 to 5 miles using the following route: Collins Path -> Homestead Trail -> Mt Molly Trail -> Walley Way -> Owl’s Head Trail -> North Shore Road Walk (short) -> Homestead Trail -> Collins Path and back to the parking lot. This hike is geared for ages 12 and older. Participants should wear orange blaze as it will be youth hunting weekend.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE
Difficulty: Strenuous (due to a couple of steep hills)

New Hampshire Mushrooms and the Ecological Importance of Fungi
2025-11-05 17:30 - 18:45 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join us as we welcome mushroom enthusiast Maxwell Leavitt for his presentation “New Hampshire Mushrooms and the Ecological Importance of Fungi“. Learn about the plethora of native fungi in our own backyards and woods, including their multitude of ecological benefits and how important they are to our very survival. This talk promises to be both entertaining and enlightening. We hope to see you there!

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

Little SELTies Storytime: Late Fall 2025 (Session 1 of 3)
2025-11-06 10:00 - 12:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
We welcome our Little SELTies to join us for a morning of nature stories, songs, and activities in the Pratt Family Community Room at the Mathey Center at Burley Farms. Led by SELT’s Education Program Manager, Lizzy Franceschini, we will start our morning inside the community room with story time activities, then head outside for a short hike in the forest. This program is designed for children ages 0-5 and their caregivers. Storytimes for the late fall session will run on 11/6, 11/20, and 12/4.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

Forest Fridays at Piscassic Greenway: Late Fall 2025 (Session 1 of 3)
2025-11-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Piscassic Greenway
Meet us at the Piscassic Greenway Gate 2 for a kid-led nature exploration as part of our Forest Friday series. This series will be led by SELT volunteer Loralise LoDolce. We will offer supervised kid-led exploration and unstructured outdoor play for kids aged 0-5 and their guardians. This series will take place rain or shine – be sure to dress appropriately for the weather, you’ll want to be comfortable being still, muddy, or snow covered. The Late Fall 2025 Sessions of Forest Fridays at Piscassic Greenway will be held on 11/7, 11/21, and 12/5.
This series is intended for kids aged 0-5 and their guardians.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

OTTO Pizza Fundraiser for SELT at their Portsmouth location
2025-11-10 11:00 - 22:00 | OTTO Pizza Portsmouth, 110 Brewery Ln, Portsmouth, 03801, United States
Come to OTTO Pizza in Portsmouth on November 10th and enjoy their excellent pies and support SELT.OTTO was founded on the promise of an elevated pizza experience – transforming an oft-uninspired staple food through carefully-sourced, high-quality, wholesome ingredients, and culinary-inspired recipes.More about OTTO can be found at https://www.ottoportland.com/

Two River Restoration Short Film Screenings with Reel Quest Films
2025-11-12 17:30 - 18:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join Filmmakers Jerry Monkman & Ryan Smith as they screen two of their Reel Quest Films here at SELT. The films will include “Reconnected: Restoring the Rivers of Long Island Sound” and “One Million Fish: Restoring Alewives to Maine’s China Lake”
We are screening these two river restoration films to highlight the filmmaking work of our longtime photographer Jerry Monkman (EcoPhotography, LLC) and because they directly relate to our recent SELTie Book Club book Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane.
Jerry and Ryan will be present for a Q&A session after the screenings.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

More about Reel Quest Films and EcoPhotography can be found by clicking on the images below.

Forest Fridays with Four Winds Nature Institute - Fall Session 2 (of 3)
2025-11-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Leighton Forest, Strafford, United States
Meet us at the Leighton Forest in Strafford for a kid-led nature exploration as part of our Forest Friday series. This series will be led by nature-based educators Karly Wilcox and Sara Deserres from Four Winds Nature Institute. We will offer supervised kid-led adventure and unstructured outdoor play for kids aged 0-5 and their guardians. This series will take place rain, snow, or shine – be sure to dress appropriately for the weather, you’ll want to be comfortable being still or muddy. The dates of the Fall Session of Forest Fridays at various Strafford County locations will be 10/10, 11/14, & 12/12.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE
Difficulty: Easy to Moderate (depending on the conditions)

Fall Haul Trail Run #3 with Treeline Outfitters at Harvey's Kennard Hill Forest
2025-11-14 16:00 - 17:30 | Harvey’s Kennard Hill Forest, Epping, New Hampshire
We are excited to partner with Treeline Outfitters for the Fall Haul Trail Run series this year. Join Treeline’s Emily Kwesell for round 3 that will include a guided trail run in and around the harmonious Harvey’s Kennard Hill Forest. Expect to run around 4-6 miles at a conversational pace.
This is part 3 of 3 of this series.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE
Difficulty: Strenuous (many hills and intended for runners with some trail running experience)

Gravel Ride with Treeline Outfitters in Epping, Brentwood, and Fremont
2025-11-16 09:30 - 12:00 | Burley Farms, 247 N. River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
We are excited to partner with Treeline Outfitters for this unique gravel ride. Treeline’s Cody Whelan will lead a 33 mile route that will include Burley Farms, Piscassic Greenway, Mast Road Natural Area, and Tucker & French Family Forest. The ride will involve about 50% gravel and 50% road. More details about the route can be found by clicking here.
This event is limited to 25 participants.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE
Experience & Difficulty Level: Intermediate, expect roots and rocks on the trails, riders should have experience riding for 2+ hours and 30+ miles over varied terrain.

Mindful Morning with Rooting in Nature
2025-11-19 09:00 - 11:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
What is Forest Bathing, and how can it support your health and wellbeing?
Join Certified Forest Therapy Guide Brittany Carr of Rooting in Nature for a morning of learning, mindfulness, and connection with nature. We’ll begin with a short presentation exploring the history and science of Shinrin-yoku, the Japanese practice of “taking in the forest through our senses” Discover how slowing down and engaging the senses can calm the mind, lower stress, and deepen your connection to the natural world.
Brittany will share both the research-backed benefits and her own healing journey through Forest Therapy. After the presentation, participants will step outside for a gentle guided Forest Bathing experience designed to awaken the senses and ground the body in the present moment. The morning will close with tea, reflection, and quiet conversation.
In a world that often moves too fast, taking time to reconnect with nature—and with ourselves—has never been more important.
Please come prepared for the weather: dress in layers, wear sturdy shoes or boots, long socks, and bring water and something comfortable to sit on, such as a small mat or pad.
Come slow down, breathe deeply, and experience the restorative power of nature through mindful, sensory connection.
The cost is $10 per person.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE
Difficulty: Easy

Little SELTies Storytime: Late Fall 2025 (Session 2 of 3)
2025-11-20 10:00 - 12:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
