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Celebrate the season with handmade charm! In this festive, hands-on workshop on Saturday, November 15 from 1-4pm, you’ll design and carve your own original linoleum blocks to create unique holiday cards and gift tags. The workshop is at Hollister House Garden, 300 Nettleton Hollow Road, Washington. Joanne Wasti will run the workshop. Learn to work

From the Wild Ones Mountain Laurel chapter comes this great advice: Your leaves really do matter, and a recent research report co-authored by Max Ferlauto Maryland state entomologist, and Karen Burghardt, University of Maryland, College Park, enhances our knowledge of how best to use fallen leaves to support biodiversity.  Previous work by Max showed how leaf litter affects

Spanish for Ag and Horticulture WorkforceOnline, Self-Paced Course | Open January 16 to March 6, 2026 With the large number of Spanish speakers working in agriculture and horticulture, language barriers and cultural differences are significant challenges, costing operations productivity, safety, and profitability every single day.The specialized program is designed specifically for agricultural supervisors and managers

Bartlett Arboretum & Gardens continues this Sunday from 5-7pm with Paul Gabriel. Paul Gabriel is a Blues Music Award nominee, Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Blues Hall of Fame inductee, and New England Music Hall of Fame inductee.The concert will take place on the Great Lawn.Bring chairs or a blanket, and a picnic dinner.In the event

CTASLA will present a full-day continuing education program, “Bees in the Built Environment,” on Wednesday, July 23 at Wickham Park in Manchester, CT. This program will explore best practices for bee-friendly design and the important relationship between plants and pollinators, with speakers from Sasaki, Natureworks Nursery, CTDOT, the University of Rhode Island Bee Lab and more. The day will

At 77 years young, Hill-Stead will be making her silver screen debut this year, and we can’t wait to celebrate! Please join us in toasting our beloved Museum, as we bring a taste of Hollywood to Hill-Stead.  Saturday, May 17: Seated Dinner Tickets$600 per personLimited to 150 guests ScheduleCocktails at 6 pmDinner at 7 pm *The

On Thursday, February 27 at 6pm Hill-Stead Museum will host Tony Yurgaitis, owner of Arethusa Farm in Litchfield, for a conservation about art collecting with our Executive Director, Dr. Anna Swinbourne.Tony’s personal story, which fuses appreciation of art of all kinds with a passion for farming, is a familiar one at Hill-Stead. Tony and members of