Upcoming events.
Tracking Club
Join Lime Hollow Nature Center to learn the Art of Tracking! This explorative practice will allow you to see the hidden world of nature by learning how to find and interpret subtle evidence on the landscape. Tracking is a useful skill for many fields such as conservation, hunting, and nature viewing. It is a scientific process that was developed by our earliest ancestors which can still be used today in your everyday life to enhance your awareness of the world.
Youth Naturalist Series: Maple Sugaring
Come discover how maple syrup is made. Taste sap running right out of the tree and sample delicious jack wax in our own Sugar Shack.
Moonlit Hike
Celebrate the moonlight or daylight with a brisk guided hike to admire the beauty of Lime Hollow trails. The transition from day to night can be an exciting time to tune our senses to nature. Moonlit hikes take place whether the sky is clear or overcast.
Adult Naturalist Series: Leather Crafting
Join us for a weekend workshop where we will take the whole hide of a deer and turn it into buckskin. Tanned buckskin is a type of leather that is soft, pliable, and water resistant which can be turned into so many other useful tools. Our ancestors learned to use this material to make footwear, clothing, and containers.
In this class you will learn to:
How to properly store deer skins for future use
What tools are necessary and their use
The process for cleaning a hide
Science and Suds
Earth Source Heat and the Cornell University Borehole Observatory (CUBO)
Dr. Wayne Bezner Kerr, Earth Source Heat Program Manager, Cornell University
Tracking Club
Join Lime Hollow Nature Center to learn the Art of Tracking! This explorative practice will allow you to see the hidden world of nature by learning how to find and interpret subtle evidence on the landscape. Tracking is a useful skill for many fields such as conservation, hunting, and nature viewing. It is a scientific process that was developed by our earliest ancestors which can still be used today in your everyday life to enhance your awareness of the world.
Adult Naturalist Series: Campfire Cooking
For hundreds of thousands of years, fire has molded and shaped us into the humans we are today, and It did this through the food we cooked. In every living human’s ancestry, someone cooked with fire. Join your ancestors and learn to harness a campfire by grilling on open flames, using cast iron, aluminum foil to create delicious food such as stew, grilling vegetables, and ash cakes. The next time you go camping not only will you impress others with your cooking skills, but it will also give you the confidence to know that no matter what the situation is, your palate won’t suffer!
Tracking Club
Join Lime Hollow Nature Center to learn the Art of Tracking! This explorative practice will allow you to see the hidden world of nature by learning how to find and interpret subtle evidence on the landscape. Tracking is a useful skill for many fields such as conservation, hunting, and nature viewing. It is a scientific process that was developed by our earliest ancestors which can still be used today in your everyday life to enhance your awareness of the world.
Adult Naturalist Series: Survival 101
Humanity is faced with the reality that while we have grown so much technologically things can and will fail. People are exploring nature in record numbers, climate change is causing record breaking temperatures, storms, and droughts! The question is then, what do we do when the systems we put in place fail? The answer is we need to go back to the basics. The world today hasn’t stopped throwing challenges our way and our basic needs for survival have not changed. Now more than ever, it is important to understand how to provide for yourself and your loved ones through self reliance skills. Don’t wait until the last minute and prepare yourself for the worst scenarios nature can offer.
Join us at Lime Hollow for a weekend where you will learn:
Preparation and prevention
Shelter building
Hunting and foraging
Hydration
Sanitation
Knife skills
Fire
Science and Suds
Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Doug Turnbull, Ithaca College
Youth Naturalist Series: Bushcraft Camp
Journey deep into the wilderness and sharpen your primitive skills in this day of adventure. Collect wild edibles and learn about medicinal plants, track animals, discover their haunts, tie new knots and learn new fire making skills. Try your hand at woodworking, leatherworking, and basketry. Do you have what it takes to survive in the wild?
Tracking Club
Join Lime Hollow Nature Center to learn the Art of Tracking! This explorative practice will allow you to see the hidden world of nature by learning how to find and interpret subtle evidence on the landscape. Tracking is a useful skill for many fields such as conservation, hunting, and nature viewing. It is a scientific process that was developed by our earliest ancestors which can still be used today in your everyday life to enhance your awareness of the world.