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Rauscher Farm

Events 2017

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Event Poster:
Winter Wonderland on Rauscher Farm

With a Rauscher Farm nature camera color photo of a Fox standing alert in the snow

Join DCR Ranger Lieutenant Rebecca Baronoski to discover

How Animals Live in Winter
Saturday February 25, 2017
2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Wear weather-appropriate clothing

Event Poster:
A Spring Day on Rauscher Farm

Who's Who on Rauscher Farm?

Pictures of birds, Insects, a pair of Swans, and a salamander

Saturday April 22, 2017 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Celebrate Earth Day

Event Poster:
How Trees Talk
Saturday May 20, 2017

Photograph of trees along edge of Clamshell Pond.


11:00 a.m. to noon

at Bigelow Free Public Library
54 Walnut Street, Clinton
Join in a conversation with forester Michael Barry 

then 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. on Rauscher Farm

Join Michael Barry for a walk in the woods.

Event co-sponsored by the Bigelow Free Public Library and Freedom's Way as part of its Hidden Treasurers 2017 month-long celebration of the natural, cultural and historic resources within Freedom's Way National Heritage Area..

Event Poster: 
Rauscher Farm Nature Adventures \
with photographs of children enjoying nature on Rauscher Farm

Summer Program for Kids

Monday July 10 through Friday July 14, 2017

9:00 a.m. to 12 noon

Clinton School Department Summer enrichment Program, Suitable for seond through fifth graders

A fun week creating a Field Notebook with the animals, birds, insects, plants, trees, and water critters we find that make Rauscher Farm their home

Event Poster: 
Let's Build a Fairy House
with drawing of a fairy hovering next to a flower

Saturday July 15, 2017
2 to 4 p.m.

A magical afternoon for those who believe in fairies!

Woodland fairy houses will be made of natural materials only.

Event poster
Bees 'n Butterflies
With photos of a bumblebee, a honey bee and several butterflies

Sunday August 20 2 to 4 p.m.

Get the buzz on bees from Kenneth Warchol, sixth generation beekeeper

Share the beauty of butterflies

Event Poster

StoryWalk on Rauscher Farm

The Tiny Seed
by Eric Carle

With cartoon illustration of a young boy and girl on a grassy book shaped hillside with a tree and blue sky.

A self-guided reading adventure along the Clamshell Pond path.

August through November 2017
(or until the snow gets deep)

Our fourth annual StoryWalk is co-sponsored by Clinton's Bigelow Free Public Library.

The StoryWalk Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier Vermont and developed in collaboration with the Vermont Bicycle and Pedestrian Coalition and the Kellogg-Hubbard Library

Event Poster:
Fall Volunteer Day
With photoraphs of various adults and children doing volunteer work on Rauscher Farm. 

Saturday October 21 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Donate Sweat equity to spruce up Rauscher Farm.