co-sponsored by Blue Hill Heritage Trust and Blue Hill Public Library!
All ages are invited to participate in a Winter Hiking Challenge featuring Blue Hill Heritage Trust trails across the Blue Hill Peninsula. Starting on Monday, February 1st, there will be a featured animal/plant posted at eight designated trails and a mystery letter for participants to collect. Hikers will learn about winter ecology from the perspective of many different species including porcupines, gulls, frogs, and more!
The challenge ends on Saturday, March 20, the first day of spring! Once you have completed all eight trails and assembled the letters to form the mystery word, send an email with a photo of the completed card to enter a drawing for a prize. All kids will receive a prize for completing the hiking challenge and there will be a a prize drawing for adults!
This program is co-sponsored by the Blue Hill Library and Blue Hill Heritage Trust. For more information, email Landere at landere@bluehillheritagetrust.org. or Claire at claire.malina@bhpl.net.
To learn more about Life In Winter checkout books from the BHPL:
Reading List prepared by Claire Malina, Youth Services Librarian
May 4, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Sherm Perkins Park, Blue Hill Heritage Trust, 35 ME-175, Penobscot, ME 04476, USA
All ages are welcome to join us for a series of volunteer days throughout the spring - fall seasons. Every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month from 1-4pm. Join us on May 4th for another Volunteer Day! Help clean up, trim and start to revitalize our Sherm-Perkins Penobscot property in preparation for its future purpose as a pollinator space!
We will be working from 1-4pm. Volunteers should bring work shoes, water and work gloves. Anyone interested in attending should RSVP emailing Andrew at stewardship@bluehillheritagetrust.org
Kids are invited to Wild Sun Catchers on the library lawn onWednesday, May 17 at 3:30 pm. Join Landere Naisbitt from Blue Hill Heritage Trust and Claire Malina from the Blue Hill Library for a workshop on ferns. We will be joined by special guest Nell Houde from Wild Seed Project. Nell will teach participants about ferns and fern spore cultivation. We will play a fern life cycle game, search for ferns and plant fern spores using two northeastern ferns: the Christmas Fern and Northern Lady Fern.
To register, use the library's interactive calendar or by calling 374-5515. Registration opens one month prior to the event. For more information, contact Claire at claire.malina@bhpl.net.
Wild Sun Catchers is a monthly program for kids and families that celebrates the wild plants of the Blue Hill Peninsula, and teaches a stewardship ethic for the land and its many inhabitants. We focus on a different plant and the relationships it has with other species each month.
This program is FREE and is co-sponsored by the Blue Hill Library and Blue Hill Heritage Trust.
May 18, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Snow's Cove Sanctuary, 106 ME-15, Sedgwick, ME 04676, USA
All ages are welcome to join us for a series of volunteer days throughout the spring - fall seasons. Every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month from 1-4pm.
We are continuing our May BHHT Preserve Spring Cleanup, Thursday, May 18th, from 1-4pm at Snows Cove Preserve. We will be working on cleaning up old dump piles off the sides of the trails. Some of the old dump piles contain sharp objects (metal, glass, etc.).
BHHT will provide trash bags. Volunteers should bring work gloves (cut resistant gloves are best, but not required), safety glasses, closed-toed shoes or boots, and water.
Anyone interested or having questions can contact our Land Steward, Andrew, at stewardship@bluehillheritagetrust.org
Friends from the Field: Maine is weird - Why We Have So Many Birds
Friends from the Field: Maine is weird - Why We Have So Many Birds
May 18, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Join Blue Hill Heritage Trust and Island Heritage Trust for another Friends from the Field Webinar!
Bob Duchesne is a birding guide and author, and spearheaded creation of the Maine Birding Trail. Bob writes weekly birding columns in the Bangor Daily News and produces YouTube videos about birding in Maine and beyond.
Maine's peculiar history explains why the state has so many birds. Some surprising reasons date back 300 million years. Others are brand new. Here are the Top Ten Reasons Maine is weird.
Volunteer Work Day: Planting Party at Surry Forest
Volunteer Work Day: Planting Party at Surry Forest
May 20, 2023 @ 8:30 am - 11:30 am
Know Your Land Consulting, in partnership with BHHT, is creating an Edible Landscape Project at Surry Forest. We are in our third spring of this project and we are excited to get more pollinator plants in the ground! We are inviting community members to join us for a fun morning in the forest. Come learn about the project and get your hands dirty! We are busy sourcing more plants and we have another Planting Party scheduled for Saturday, May 20th from 8:30am -11:30pm with breakfast treats included. We will ask that participants please bring gloves, a shovel if you have one you like, and water with you. We will have some tools on hand, but do not have enough for everyone. We will provide fruit, granola bars, coffee, tea and other fun breakfast treats! Please let Landere know if you would like to join us so we can add you to the list. landere@bluehillheritagetrust.org
May 23, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Blue Hill Co-op, 70 South St, Blue Hill, ME 04614, USA
Join BHHT, Blue Hill Co-op, and the Native Gardens of Blue Hill for a Work Party to start the restoration project on the construction slope behind the co-op.
We will be working on erosion control and soil amendments. Bring gloves, a hat, a shovel if you have one, and lunch. Cookies and water will be provided by the Co-op.
If you are a working owner this work day will be applied to your hours, and if you would like to become a new working owner you can talk to Coop Ownership Coordinator, Jennifer, about this! Please email Jennifer ownership@bluehill.coop to sign up.
Make a Birdhouse and Learn about the Blue Bird Trail!
Make a Birdhouse and Learn about the Blue Bird Trail!
May 26, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Want to make a bird house and learn about Hancock County’s Bluebird Trail?
Join us for a fun event at the Blue Hill Heritage Trust Office. Charlie from Holbrook Island Sanctuary will help your kids build a birdhouse to bring home and teach you how you can help create habitat for our avian friends. A Downeast Audubon member will share stories about the Hancock Blue Bird Trail!
This event is FREE and open to the public but space is limited.
Alewive Migration in the Bagaduce Watershed (Migration in the Bagaduce Watershed Program
Alewive Migration in the Bagaduce Watershed (Migration in the Bagaduce Watershed Program
May 27, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Pierce Pond, Penobscot, ME 04476, USA
Migration in the Bagaduce Watershed Program Series Join BHHT, and Bailey Bowden, in Penobscot at Pierce's Pond to see a stream teeming with alewives and to learn about the amazing journey of these small herring from the Atlantic Ocean to our lakes and ponds. Learn about fish restoration projects on the peninsula as well and how you can help! This event is free and open to the public. *REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED at: https://forms.gle/JvkNziQgpaF21oM88 This events will be outside. Please dress for the weather with appropriate footwear.
