Calendar of Events & Activities
Weekly Events — Volunteering for a healthier city
Glean the Fields with Healthy City
Volunteer to glean farm fields of their excess produce that will feed those in need! Every Tuesday and Thursday from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Please contact at the Intervale, 660-0440 x 106. July-August.
Volunteer at the Healthy City Youth farm!
Volunteer at the Healthy City Youth Farm and help their farm grow! Days and times are flexible, we can accommodate almost any schedule! Please contact at the Intervale, 660-0440 x 106.
Ask Aziza how to earn worker-member credit and a 12% discount at City Market if you volunteer with Healthy City!
Summer Thursdays at the Intervale
FREE, FUN AND ALWAYS DIFFERENT.
Our Thursdays at the Intervale series gets underway June 19 with the Food Basket kick-off! Join us at the Calkins Community Barn for food, music, fun and some exciting educational programs in the setting of our historic farmstead, minutes from downtown Burlington. For more information, call 660-0440 x 106
SCHEDULE
Here’s the Thursday’s line-up so far. Check back for additional dates and schedule updates.
June 19: Food Basket kick-off party
June 26: Intervale Conservation Nursery tree walk & talk
July 10: Vermont Beekeepers Association talk, slides and tour and music by Speedsquare
July 17: Kids’ Thursday with activities led by Healthy City Youth Farm, Kids on the Block and music by The Lab
July 31: Music by Jess Clemons
Aug. 14: Success on Farms presentation and product sampling and Vermont Youth Orchestra benefit
FOOD
Bring your own picnic dinner, enjoy fresh pizza from the onsite American Flatbread hearth, or order from Sugarsnap, conveniently located right at the top of Intervale Road. Call 652-5922 or visit www.sugarsnap.biz for a menu.
SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION
Thursdays at the Intervale summer series begins this year on June 19th and will be the Intervale Center’s fifth year hosting the free, public event! This year we are inviting your sponsorship of this growing community program that works to build support for sustainable agriculture and increase access to local food.
Each Thursday features a presentation related to Intervale Center programs. We bring together educational workshops, talks, fun kids’ activities, and great live music in a relaxed and enjoyable early evening atmosphere. The programs and music are held in the Calkins Community Barn, adjacent to the Center’s farmhouse office, while outside the crew from American Flatbread serves up flatbread from their mobile wood-fired hearth.
Thursdays at the Intervale has become a Burlington summer favorite with music lovers and families looking for a safe and environmentally-friendly place to explore, picnic and play. Our events draw up to 200 people with our children’s programs being especially popular. We hope that you will be able to join this year’s activities.
Your sponsorship of the Thursday’s series brings you:
• Recognition and visibility with the general public for your support of this community-building effort.
• Association with a respected organization that builds support for sustainable agriculture and increases access to local food.
As a Thursdays at the Intervale sponsor you will be acknowledged through:
• Recognition in print, radio and web advertising.
• Your banner and a table to display materials in the Calkins Community Barn during events.
• Recognition from the stage during events.
• A summer-long Series Sponsor’s name and logo will appear in the Intervale Center's annual Explorer publication.
(40,000 distribution in Seven Days and around Chittenden County, press date April 28)
Suggested sponsorship levels are $250 for a single event or $800 for the entire summer-long Thursdays series. We also welcome in-kind and/or creative contributions or services.
Thursdays at the Intervale will start June 19 with our 30th anniversary celebration and run through August. In addition to our educational events, some of this year’s featured performers include members of the Vermont Youth Orchestra, Jess Clemons, The Lab, Speedsquare and Kids on the Block puppets.
Your contribution will help us put on this great series and showcase your support for the Intervale Center, local food, sustainable agriculture and the community. We hope you will join us for this fun and one-of-a-kind
For more information, please contact Volunteer Event Coordinators:
Christine Ellis at christie@gardeners.com, (802) 660-3500
Jessica Hyman at jhyman@uvm.edu, (802) 598-3139
Click here for a sponsorship form to support this free, community series!
More events around the Intervale…
Think Spring!
Gardener’s Supply Company offers educational seminars each spring. Seminars feature nationally-renowned gardening experts, as well as some of our favorite local gardening gurus. They’ll share tips, techniques and strategies on a wide variety of gardening topics that will enhance the repertoire of the beginner and expert gardener alike.
Click here for a full listing and description of all seminars. All seminars will take place at the Intervale store location. Seating in the our seminar room is limited, so please call early to pre-register, as we expect the programs to sell out early. To pre-register, call the store at (802) 660-3505.
Ongoing Activities
Daily
Free trail maps and nature brochures
Pick one up at the entrance to the Ethan Allen Homestead Museum or visit www.WVPD.org
Year-round
Bird monitoring
Find out how to enter sightings through the E-bird website. Contact Amy Cantor at
Wildlife tracking
On going training with Keeping Track throughout the year. Call 863-5744 or 434-7000.
Picnic under cover
Picnic shelter for rental at the Ethan Allen Homestead for group events. Call 863-5744.
May to October
Invasive Species Removal
Join others to remove nuisance plants from the parks, May to August. Call 863-5744.
Ethan’s Secret Forest
Learn how early settlers enjoyed recreation as part of daily work at the Ethan Allen Homestead. Children and adults. Call 865-4556 for information.
All season by reservation.
Umiak Group Tours
Start at the Ethan Allen Homestead and paddle to Lake Champlain. Call Umiak Outfitters at 253-2317.
Learn about flowers, butterflies and frogs at the Ethan Allen Homestead
Learn about flowers, butterflies and frogs at the Ethan Allen Homestead. For families with young children. Call the VNA Family Room at 864-0377.
Burlington Area Community Gardens
Garden space for rent to grow your own vegetables and flowers.
At the Ethan Allen Homestead and the Tommy Thompson Community Gardens on Intervale Road. Call Lisa Coven at 863-0420.