TrailFest Schedule

  • SELT Welcome Tent
  • SELT Membership and Merch
  • SELT Snack Bar Featuring Wraps (Caesar, Turkey, and Veggie Hummus) & Salads (Mediterranean Chickpea, Macaroni, and Potato) from Epping School Catering along with soft drinks, juice, snacks, beer, cider and hard kombucha from Auspicious Brew
  • Acorn School
  • ATLAS (All-Terrain Learning Adventures)
  • Apple Annie
  • Auspicious Brew
  • Blacksmithing Demo w/ Zack Archambault
  • Center for Wildlife – Reptiles and Birds
  • Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook – Abenaki People
  • Dover Pottery Studio
  • Face-painting with Epping High School Art Students
  • Four Winds Nature Institute
  • Furry Mammals
  • Green Wave EV
  • The Gundalow Company
  • Kona Ice
  • Lamprey River Advisory Committee (LRAC)
  • Natural Crafts Tables
  • New Hampshire Coffee Roasting Co.
  • New Hampshire Healthy Climate
  • New Hampshire Turtle Rescue
  • New Moon Resale & Sustainable Fashion
  • Northeast Passage
  • Pollinator Pathways New Hampshire
  • The RailPenny Tavern
  • Replenish Refillery
  • ReVision Energy
  • Rooting in Nature
  • Terracea
  • Treeline Outfitters
  • Travel and Nature
  • Trout Unlimited
  • UNH History Department

  • 10:45 – 11:15  – Kids Fun Run
  • 11:30 – 12:15  – Untimed Fun Run or Walk
  • 12:00 – 1:15 – Fall Foliage Hike
  • 12:30 – 1:00 – Burley Farms Trail Walk with SELT’s Executive Director Brian Hart
  • 1:00 – 1:45  – Forest Bathing with Rooting in Nature
  • 1:15 – 2:00 – Tree ID Hike with SELT’s Forest and Wildlife Habitat Manager Chad Fierros
  • 1:45 – 2:15 – Recent Trail Improvements at Burley Farms Hike with SELT’s Trails Manager Yohann Hanley

All-day Activities

  • Hay bales
  • Jumping Stumps
  • Mud Kitchen (Buckets of water available)
  • Loose Parts Play
  • Hula Hoops and Bubbles
  • Playhouse, climbers and slides
  • Education garden open for play and exploration

Scheduled Activities

  • 10:00 - 10:30 – Little SELTies Storytime
  • 11:30 – 12:00 – Nature Dance Party!
  • 1:30 – 2:00 – Parachute Games

Pratt Community Room (inside the Mathey Center)

  • 10:00 – 11:00 | Apple Tasting with Stacy Purslow
  • 11:00 – 12:00 | Flax to Linen Project with UNH professor Kimberly Alexander (see more about this project below)
  • 12:00 – 1:00 | Green Burial Talk with Sarah Arslanian
  • 1:00 – 2:00 | Broom Making with Bryan Cassidy

Pratt Patio

  • Green Wood Carving and Broom Making with Bryan Cassidy
  • Edith Pucci Couchman's children’s activities from her book  Circling the Sun, Racing the Wind
  • Soil/Climate Display – Display on the importance of soil health in the regulation of the climate
  • Seacoast Permaculture Quilt created by members of Seacoast Permaculture Community
  • What is permaculture, garden design, and bug hotel with Amy Antonucci
  • Hand spinning and wool dyeing with Deb Ganster

The UNH Flax-to-Linen Project was initiated in Spring 2023 and is based on methodologies both experiential – planting, growing and processing flax into fiber -- and archival-- based on New Hampshire history and research. Working with graduate students and undergraduates, it is a community-based, public-facing project providing learners of all ages and opportunity to work with this important fiber. The UNH Flax Files holds hands-on-history events including demonstrations and talks throughout the Seacoast.

https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2023/09/flax-linen-project-weaves-history-ex

https://www.nhpr.org/2024-01-01/exploring-part-of-new-englands-textile-hist

Https://www.theflaxprojectunh.com

https://spark.unh.edu/issue/2024-research-review/

https://www.fiberygoodness.com/2025/05/tinystudio-issue-27/ [article begins on page 70]

  • 10:30 – 11:30 | Rock Splitting Demo with Yohann!
  • 12:15 – 1:15 | Magic Show with Sages Entertainment
  • 2:00 – 3:00 | Tailwinds Raptor Education Program

  • 10:30 – 12:00 | 9-LB Hamster
  • 12:30 – 2:00 | The Any Which Way