• Astronomy Night

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Join Williamstown Rural Lands and Williams College Associate Professor of Astronomy Anne Jaskot for a night of stargazing at Sheep Hill. Come learn some facts about our universe from Professor Jaskot, and view the sky together! Telescopes on site. Bring…

  • Firefly Night

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Join Williamstown Rural Lands for an evening hike at Sheep Hill for stories, crafts and observations on the magic of fireflies and summer nights. Visit this link for more information. DATE: Saturday, June 28 TIME: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM…

  • Firefly Night at Sheep Hill

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Enjoy the magic of the fireflies at Sheep Hill on a Saturday night! This annual favorite, open to all, is a good excuse for kids to stay up late, just this once. And for adults to enjoy some fun. Flying…

  • Guided Hike: Bee Hill and Flora’s Glen via the Fitch Trail

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Join Williamstown Rural Lands for a 4-mile, moderately strenuous climb through the meadow at Sheep Hill to the woods of Bee Hill, viewing some spectacular groves of sugar maples and hemlock along the way. Visit this link for more information…

  • Mushroom Cultivation Workshop

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Embrace the arrival of Spring with a deep dive into the fascinating world of fungi with Williamstown Rural Lands! In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn the fundamentals of mushroom cultivation, including how to inoculate logs, wood chips, and stumps.  Cover…

  • Spring Repair Cafe at Sheep Hill

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    You don’t have to kiss your socks goodbye. Bring them to the Spring Repair Café and have them bring you joy, again. Bring anything that can, or may, be repaired to the Spring Repair Café, a bi-annual fix-it event co-hosted…

  • Sheep Hill Spring Spruce-Up

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Spring Spruce-up at Sheep Hill Ahhh, Spring. Join Williamstown Rural Lands in freshening up our grounds. It’s fun. It’s community. It’s super helpful. Drop by any time, for any amount of time, to join your friends and members of Rural…

  • Sheep Hill Birding: Fall Migration

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Join Williamstown Rural Lands board member Tommy Richey for a leisurely birding experience at Sheep Hill (671 Cold Spring Rd., Williamstown). This walk will start at the farmhouse looking for birds in the willows around Josiah's Pond and the wetlands…

  • Late Summer Butterflies of Sheep Hill

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Join Williamstown Rural Lands and local butterfly enthusiast Doug Lister for a leisurely butterflying experience in search of our late summer Lepidopteran neighbors. The group will walk a slow-paced, ~1.5 mile loop to the top of Sheep Hill to look…

  • Guided Hike: Bee Hill and Flora’s Glen via Fitch Trail

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Join Williamstown Rural Lands trails committee member Dusty Griffin on July 20 from 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. for a hike across open fields, through mixed woodlands to the high point of Bee Hill and back through Flora’s Glen. This…

  • Sheep Hill Birding: Summer Residents

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Join Williamstown Rural Land for a leisurely birding experience at Sheep Hill (671 Cold Spring Rd., Williamstown) on July 13 from 7:30 - 9 a.m. with former Audubon chapter president and Williamstown local Tommy Richey. Start at the farmhouse -…

  • Firefly Night

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Enjoy the magic of the fireflies at Sheep Hill (671 Cold Spring Rd., Williamstown)! Join Williamstown Rural Lands and local naturalist Doug Lister for a fun filled evening of storytelling culminating in an evening walk around the meadow amongst the…

  • Early Summer Butterflies of Sheep Hill

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Join Williamstown Rural Lands and local butterfly enthusiast Doug Lister for a leisurely butterflying experience in search of our early summer Lepidopteran neighbors. The group will walk a slow-paced, ~1.5 mile loop around Sheep Hill to look for hairstreaks, whites,…

  • Field & Forest Tai Chi

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Join Williamstown Rural Lands and certified Tai Chi instructor Mary Hannah Parkman to learn the art of mindful movement through Tai Chi. Mary Hannah will guide participants in slow-paced movements that encourage mindfulness and thereby deepen capacity for connection with…

  • Including Land in your Financial Plans

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Join a panel of local northern Berkshire experts and landowners at Sheep Hill (671 Cold Spring Rd.) to learn about tools that can help you accomplish your goals, whether they are minimizing taxes, generating lifetime income, passing property to the next…

  • Birding at Sheep Hill: Spring Migration

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Join Williamstown Rural Land for a leisurely birding experience at Sheep Hill (671 Cold Spring Rd., Williamstown) with former Audubon chapter president and Williamstown local Tommy Richey. Walk will start at the farmhouse - looking for birds in the willows…

  • Sheep to Shawl Festival

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Enjoy a day of fun at Sheep Hill (671 Cold Spring Rd., Williamstown) celebrating the fiber arts and rural heritage with the 2024 Sheep to Shawl Festival! Live demonstrations for sheep dog herding, sheep shearing, spinning and weaving, natural fiber…

  • Repair Cafe at Sheep Hill

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Wobbly table? Lamp that won't light? A hole in that elbow? Mosquitos getting through your screen? Drop by Sheep Hill (671 Cold Spring Rd., Williamstown) with your old, tired items for the Spring Repair Café, a bi-annual fix-it event organized…

  • Talks on the Hill: Stories of Invasion: When Non-native Plants Invade

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA +1 more

    From the plants we bring in on purpose to the plants that are accidentally introduced and then become pests, invasive plants have numerous stories of how they got here and spread, their impact and what we might do about them.…

  • Full Moon Owl Prowl

    Sheep Hill 671 Cold Spring Rd, Williamstown, MA

    Celebrate your local nocturnal feathered friends during Williamstown Rural Lands’ Owl Prowl! Meet live owls and learn about the adaptations that make them such superb hunters of the night with Southern Vermont Natural History Museum, enjoy owl themed crafts and…