We are still adding events to our 2024 schedule.
Stay tuned for more events as we add them.
Distant Hill Events for 2024
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” Socrates
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Restoring the Fish Habitat of Great Brook in Walpole, NH
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 4:00 to 6:00 PM
SEE A STREAM RESTORATION PROJECT IN PROGRES
The addition of instream wood is a centerpiece of wild brook trout restoration because it restores natural stream dynamics and habitat. Large wood creates diverse flow patterns, helps retain sediment, creates pools, and provides habitat for steam insects and cover for fish. Properly anchored in place, large woody material provides habitat for fish, insects, amphibians and small mammals.
Join John Magee and Jarad Lamy, Fish Habitat Biologists with N.H. Fish and Game, to learn about the benefits and the process of strategically adding wood to streams. We will meet at Distant Hill Gardens at 507 March Hill Road, Walpole NH, for a short overview of how and why to use Strategic Wood Addition (SWA) to improve instream aquatic organism habitat.
We'll then visit a 2-mile section of Great Brook, a first-order stream in the highlands of Walpole NH, that Trout Unlimited is in the process of restoring using the addition of large instream
wood.
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Note: There is a quarter-mile hike over moderately steep and rocky terrain to get to Great Brook. Appropriate footwear is recommended.
Medicinal Plant Workshop at Distant Hill Gardens
Saturday, August 24, 2024, 4:00 to 6:00 PM
Medicinal Plant Walk & Tincture Making
Plants have been used medicinally by every human culture throughout history, but countless medicinal uses of plants have been forgotten. Many of the plants found in the gardens, forests, fields and wetlands of Distant Hill have medicinal value, and this workshop will introduce you to some of them.
Come explore Distant Hill Gardens and Nature Trail with herbalist and naturalist Kevin Bose and learn how to harness the medicinal properties of some of our native and cultivated plants. You’ll learn which plants can be used for which ailments, how to harvest them sustainably, and how to prepare them.
The workshop will start with a talk, followed with a plant walk, and ending with a hands-on activity of making tinctures and teas from plants collected on our walk. Each participant will take home their own custom tincture.
Max # of students: 12
Cost: $35/person
Distant Hill was listed as one of the Top 10 Places to Visit in New Hampshire!
Friends of Distant Hill (dba Distant Hill Gardens and Nature Trail) is a nonprofit,
tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
Donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Tax ID# 84-3765898
or send a check via Snail Mail to:
Distant Hill Gardens and Nature Trail, 507 March Hill Road, Walpole, NH 03608