Explore the importance of creating welcoming habitats for birds through thoughtful landscape choices that include native plants vital for food and nesting sites. Learn about the benefits and joys of creating beautiful layered gardensand bring avian performers into your own backyard with landscape management tips from Joan Butler, Master Gardener, horticulturist, and past chairman of […]
On Saturday, February 27, join us for a SNOW MOON HIKE on the Mary Edwards Mountain Property in North Granby. The hike will be about a mile long and terrain is variable. If we still have deep snow, you will need snowshoes. If the night is overcast, please bring a headlamp. No dogs, please! Please […]
Youth Conservation Corps Work Party at Katan-Ensor Preserve in West Granby. Please bring work gloves and loppers. We will be clearing and marking trails. Questions? Email us at info@granbylandtrust.org or reach out to YCC Coordinator Zach Orluk.
Did you miss this presentation? Don't worry, we recorded it! You can see it here. The Granby Land Trust and Granby Public Library will host best-selling author Doug Tallamy on March 29, at 6:30 pm, for a virtual discussion of his book, Nature’s Best Hope. Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of […]
Wildlife photographer Peter Christoph presents award-winning images and photographic secrets when you travel with him virtually to a typical New England swamp. Enjoy an intimate look at the many varieties of birds that inhabit our swamps, including ospreys and herons, shorebirds, woodpeckers, and other cavity dwellers. Sloshing and crawling through the swamp so you don’t […]
Katan-Ensor Preserve/Old Messenger Road Corridor Property and Trail Work Party -- Meet at 9AM at Katan-Ensor Parking Area located at the end of Strong Road We invite you to join us on Saturday morning, April 24, to help us do additional property clean-up and also extend the Katan-Ensor Preserve trail into the GLT’s Old Messenger […]
Join us on Saturday morning, May 2, to help us do additional property clean-up and extend the Katan-Ensor Preserve trail into the GLT’s Old Messenger Road Corridor. Please bring loppers, hand pruners, shovels and/or rakes. Please wear gloves, long pants, and wear a mask. We also suggest some bug spray and would ask you to […]
Join us for a Land Trust tradition, our Mother's Day Weekend Spring Migration Bird Walks led by expert birders John Weeks and Christine Chinni. These walks will take place on the GLT's Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve, 253 Loomis Street in North Granby and will start promptly at 7:00AM. You'll see a variety of birds at […]
Join us for a Land Trust tradition, our Mother's Day Weekend Spring Migration Bird Walks led by expert birders John Weeks and Christine Chinni. These walks will take place on the GLT's Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve, 253 Loomis Street in North Granby and will start promptly at 7:00AM. You'll see a variety of birds at […]
Celebrate Connecticut Trails Day with the Granby Land Trust! Join us on Saturday, June 5, at 10 am for a family-friendly hike on the Seth & Lucy Holcombe Preserve. We will take a gradual uphill hike to a ridgeline. Along the way, we will visit a vernal pool and an open field. The hike will […]
Join us for a FLASH First Hike on the new Katan-Ensor/GLT Old Messenger Road Preserve Trails this Saturday, July 31, at 1:00 PM. We’ll gather at the Katan-Ensor Preserve Trailhead Kiosk. You will have two options: A 2.5-mile hike, starting on the Katan-Ensor Preserve and following the yellow trail onto to the Schlicht Family and Richard P. […]
See the sunrise from the lookout on the Schlicht Family Preserve. We will depart from the Katan-Ensor trailhead at 5:30 am SHARP. We will proceed across the Katan-Ensor Preserve to the Schlicht Preserve, where there is a wonderful lookout to the East. Please bring a headlamp so you can navigate your way to the top […]
