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Outdoor Meditation & Breathwork Practice

This new offering as part of NCF’s Wellness Series explores the beneficial use of nature to connect with your breath and inner space. Led by experienced instructor Andrew Viselli, this 60-minute session incorporates guided meditation, reiki, and subtle movement to relax, calm, and empower you at the start of the weekend.

Free

Outdoor Restorative Yoga

Get ready for a zen experience! Drop into this calming and centering practice of restorative yoga immersed in the peaceful setting of our properties. Be guided through the gentle movement, stretching and breathwork of a traditional 60-minute restorative class in open space. Pre-registration required.

Free

Guided Bike Tour- Middle Moors

(9 mi) Join avid cyclist and NCF Trustee Jim Meehan to tour the trails and dirt roads of the Middle Moors. Space is limited. Helmet and a mountain bike suitable for rough roads is required.

Free

Ecology Excursions – Shorebird Walk

Take a beautiful beach walk out to Eel Point and see shorebird conservation in action. Led by our wildlife technician Gracie Bell and environmental educator Isaac Hersh, visit an important migration stopover, learn about the stress and flow of migration, and appreciate the complex journey of migratory species. Open to all birding levels. This walk…

Free

Ecology Excursions – Folger’s Marsh Restoration Walk

A new walk that explores climate change future adaptation while walking Folger’s Marsh. Dr. Jen Karberg will be joined by Leah Hill, Town of Nantucket’s Coastal Resilience Coordinator. Learn about current research and monitoring of this salt marsh and the Polpis Rd culvert which will help NCF and the Town of Nantucket plan restoration and…

Free

How to Love a Forest: A book talk by Ethan Tapper

February 12 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Free

Sponsored by the Nantucket Conservation Foundation In the Great Hall of the Nantucket Atheneum What does it mean to love a forest? In this talk, Ethan Tapper, a forester, author and content creator from Vermont, will draw from his work as a forester and his bestselling book — How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work…

Winter Walk- Folger’s Hill

February 22 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Free

A new guided walk experience to a lesser-known hill in the Moors with a spectacular view. Not as easily findable as Altar Rock, but it holds a higher elevation and the experience is worth the hike through the sandy roads of the Eastern Moors.

Winter Walk- Masquetuck

March 8 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Free

Travel the short loop through a small, fascinating sunken hardwood forest that extends to the shores of West Polpis harbor with opportunities to see winter ducks, talk shellfish, and see the benefits to other residents of this ecologically rich area.

Winter Walk- Eels & Oysters Encounter

March 22 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Free

Visit with Jisun Reiner and Isaac Hersh as they further their research into Nantucket’s vibrant population of American Eels. Learn the unbelievable natural history of this species, see them up-close-and-personal and discover the winter ecology of our artificial oyster reef and salt marsh habitat.

Winter Walk- Windswept Bog Post-Restoration

April 5 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Free

The watershed-level restoration project at Windswept Bog is underway! Be amongst the first to explore these retired bogs after phase two construction and at the start of the 2025 growing season. See the work we’ve done, understand the transitional journey of this property and get ready for diversity to flourish here at Windswept!

Southern Pine Beetle Walk

April 12 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Free

Partnered with the a talk at the Nantucket Atheneum on 4/11 & The Nantucket Land Bank’s Walk on Sunday 4/13 An important and targeted walk with Wildlife Research Ecologist Danielle O’Dell to see the effects of Southern Pine Beetle infestations up close. Learn the signs to look for and understand the significant impact this southern…