We have cleared 20 acres of a 30 acre forest of bittersweet by hand in the last 19 years. Come help us clear the last ten!

BYO gloves + hand tools. The forest is full of birdsong and the sound of the stream running with winter melt.

Treats from Xena’s Cafe and specialty Ice-Tea’s from last year’s garden herbs.

ABOUT // The Sanctuary is a non-profit organization located on a forty acre community land trust in the Lower Connecticut River Valley.  Supporting environmental sustainability since 1995, she is chartered to promote interfaith spiritual practice, environmental education and community development. The land trust hosts beaver wetlands, walking paths, an outdoor stage, yurt, community garden, free-ranging goats and chickens and other permaculture demonstration projects.

Learn more HERE.

🌎 Earth Day 2026 is just around the corner and so is our annual Earth Day Fun event for kids.

Your support helps the Old Saybrook garden club host free events like the one above for the community.

Please consider a donation or place a plant pre-order while the online shop remains open until 4/2/2026.

The Old Saybrook Garden Club will award a $2,000 scholarship for the 2025-2026 school year to a high school senior or undergraduate student who wants to further their education in:
Botany, City Planning, Conservation, Forestry, Horticulture, Land Management Landscape Design, or any other field related to environmental science.

Applicants must be Old Saybrook residents.
Deadline for applying is April 20, 2026

To obtain an application contact your guidance office or email a request to: oldsaybrookgardenclub@gmail.com

🌿 Clothing Swap – Earth Day Event! 🌎
Join us at River Valley Dance Project for a fun and sustainable way to celebrate Earth Day!

🗓 Wednesday, April 22nd
🕓 4:45–5:45 PM
📍 500 South of Main Street, Deep River, CT 06417

Bring your gently used dresses, shirts, shoes, jackets, pants, hats, bags, and accessories to swap with others in the community. All items should be clean and in good condition.

💚 Clothes not swapped will be donated to Goodwill.
🌱 Connect, refresh your wardrobe, and make a difference —
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Swap, Not Shop!

Join artists of Shell and Bee Studio to great your own spring time sunflower art project. We will upcycle bottle caps with chalk paint and other supplies. This project is great for kids 6+ (Participants younger than 9 will need a parent or caregiver there to help them with hot glue).

Space is limited! Please call 860-526-0018 or email Library @chesterct.org to register.

This event has been generously sponsored by The Friends of the Chester Public Library.

Join us for a community work day at theGROVE as we tend the land and prepare the space for the season ahead. We’ll be clearing and refreshing trails, removing invasive plants, pruning and cutting back dead growth, raking, planting, and generally waking the land up after winter.

This is a hands-on, come-as-you-are kind of day — many hands make light work, and it’s a beautiful way to spend time outside and care for a place that cares for so many of us.

Refreshments will be served.

Please bring gloves, tools, and tick spray if you have them.
All are welcome.

LOCATION// theGROVE, 19 Cedar Lake Road Chester

Class will consist of a 45-minute lecture where you will learn how to identify and utilize edible and medicinal summer plants and mushrooms. We will discuss how to differentiate species from any possible look-a-likes. We will then go on a 45-minute foraging walk where we will practice plant and mushroom ID.

This class will be co-taught by herbalist & founder of Black Sun Farm Amelia South and CT Foraging Club founder Amy Demers.

Exchange // $30 per person.
Location // theGROVE, Chester CT
Reserve Your Spot // email shroomsofct@gmail.com with your full name.
Payment // Cash or Venmo the day of class. You will be sent out an email the day before class with further details.

Rain or Shine.

Visit www.thegrovect.org for more events