A special event designed to showcase the town’s many natural and cultural offerings.
Join the Norfolk Library for this special summer event as it wraps up its Summer Reading with Nile the Inflatable Humpback Whale. Explore a life-sized inflatable whale and allow it to spark your curiosity and inspire ocean stewardship. Inside, children explore whale anatomy, uncover conservation challenges, and discover how whales—and the ocean—connect to our daily […]
Join the Norfolk Library for this special summer event as we wrap up our Summer Reading with Nile the Inflatable Humpback Whale. Explore a life-sized inflatable whale and allow it to spark your curiosity and inspire ocean stewardship. Inside, children explore whale anatomy, uncover conservation challenges, and discover how whales—and the ocean—connect to our daily […]
Start your morning by exploring the natural world right in the heart of Norfolk! Join birder Laurie Green from Great Mountain Forest and the Norfolk Land Trust for a relaxed, 45-minute session focused on identifying local birds and native plants found in our own City Meadow. Learn tips for recognizing common species by sight and […]
This exhibition focuses on the lives of Dr. Frank Egler, ecologist, and his wife, the photographer Happy Kitchel Egler, two Connecticut pioneers of natural area preserve conservation. It highlights Aton Forest’s scientific research work and the history of the Egler and Kitchel families’ conservation work in Norfolk and Colebrook, Connecticut. Aton has owned the Egler […]
Meditation coach Miranda Lee will lead an outdoor class to start off Saturday before most of the other activities begin. Meet at the southern end of the Village Green; an indoor place will be announced in case of rain.
This exhibition focuses on the lives of Dr. Frank Egler, ecologist, and his wife, the photographer Happy Kitchel Egler, two Connecticut pioneers of natural area preserve conservation. It highlights Aton Forest’s scientific research work and the history of the Egler and Kitchel families’ conservation work in Norfolk and Colebrook, Connecticut. Aton has owned the Egler […]
This exhibition focuses on the lives of Dr. Frank Egler, ecologist, and his wife, the photographer Happy Kitchel Egler, two Connecticut pioneers of natural area preserve conservation. It highlights Aton Forest’s scientific research work and the history of the Egler and Kitchel families’ conservation work in Norfolk and Colebrook, Connecticut. Aton has owned the Egler […]
When the owners, both garden designers, acquired the house and garden next door, they decided to use the intervening woodland to link the two. Large shrubs and a lawn form a transition from the mature garden surrounding their original house into the woods beyond, where an artful network of pathways and shade plantings leads to […]
Come and visit the Norfolk Community Garden and meet some of the gardeners. You will see the beds in full summer bloom: children from the Summer Gardening Club have their own two beds where they grow pumpkins, tomatoes, peas, lettuce, kale and more, and we keep beds for the Food Pantry. The Community Garden, sponsored […]
Behind the border of flowering shrubs and trees that lines the roadside, lies an Arts and Crafts-style house and garden built in 1908. With a few liberties, the owners have recreated the original garden designed by Marian Coffin, restoring the small, formal parterre extending south from the house and executing the large double border below […]