The Hitchcock Center for the Environment

Environmental Education and Fun for All Ages

525 South Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01002

Phone: 413-256-6006
Fax: 413-253-2809
www.hitchcockcenter.org

The Hitchcock Center for the Environment's mission is to foster a greater awareness and understanding of our environment and to develop environmentally literate citizens. Come explore the wonderful world of nature with us!

Hours: Tuesday - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Saturday (Sept - June) 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Trails are open to the public during daylight hours.

Hitchcock Center for the Environment has something for everyone: handicapped accessible trails, a frog pond, live exhibits including an eastern box turtle named Speedy, hissing cockroaches, milkweed bugs, milllipedes. We offer two preschool sessions and a homeschool course.

Membership with the Hitchcock Center has many benefits including reduced or waived fees for most of our public programming, such as: the Enchanted Forest, Hug-a-Bug, Scales and Tails, Winterfest, programs on plants, trees, shrubs, local wildlife, sustainability. We have senior hikes and weekly story time for children. We have a great nature library and resource center for teachers. The Hampshire Bird Club keeps its library at the Hitchcock Center. Come by and have a look! We're next door to Bramble Hill Farm, and the Common School.

Some of our past programs have been: Greening the Roadways Festival, Marine Fisheries, Wood as an Environmental Resource, Living with Less Oil, Adopt a Vernal Pool, Spring Birding by the Book, Wildlife-Friendly Landscape Design, The Singing Life of Birds, Birding by Ear, Living with Wildlife: Sturgeon, Salmon & Shad, Breeding Bird Walk, Monarch Caterpillar Research Project, Poems for Spring and Rebirth, Scales and Tails, Sisters of the Earth: Women Writing about Nature, Women's Nature Retreat Weekend, Little Drawings, Big Memories, Men's Retreat: Discovering Our Selves in Nature, Senior Walks, Nature's Storytime, Budding Birders, Movement in Nature (ages 3-5), Ha-Ha Sisterhood Benefit Show.

BOTANY COURSES & WORKSHOPS The following courses are co-sponsored by the Hitchcock Center and the New England Wild Flower Society (NEWFS). There is a new extension of NEWFS at Nasami Farm Native Plant Nursery in Whately. Wildflowers of New England, Principles of Plant Ecology, Ferns of the Connecticut River Valley, Native Ferns Propagation Workshop. 

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