Get to know the Herrick Preserve! Join us for a family-friendly, 2.5-mile hike through a mixed hardwood forest to views of the Housatonic River. This is a moderate hike with some steep portions. Parking is limited, and registration is required.
Saturday, June 7
9 – 11 a.m.
Herrick Preserve, Sherman
Location: Herrick Preserve, 38 Evans Hill Rd., Sherman
Admission: Free
Questions: Email events@ctland.org or call 860-927-1927 ext. 1509
Join NCLC, Bent of the River Audubon Center, Bethlehem Land Trust, Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition, Roxbury Land Trust, Southbury Land Trust, and Steep Rock Association for Meet Your Greens. This casual event is free, open to the public, and an excellent opportunity to get to know others working or volunteering in the conservation field.
No reservations or RSVPs are necessary.
Thursday, May 22
5 – 7 p.m.
Woodbury Brewing Company, Woodbury
Location: Woodbury Brewing Company, 738 Main St. South, Woodbury
More Details: Attendees purchase their own drinks. Light refreshments will be provided.
Questions: Email events@ctland.org or call 860-927-1927 ext. 1509
Join us for an early morning bird walk through Smyrski Farm. This NCLC preserve is a working farm and is only open to the public for special events. Guided by local Audubon birder, Angela Dimmitt, you will enjoy the sounds of returning songbirds on this easy-going adventure. Bring binoculars and wear long pants and boots. Registration is required.
Sunday, May 18
7 – 9 a.m.
Smyrski Farm, New Milford
Location: Smyrski Farm, 237 Merryall Rd., New Milford
Admission: Free
Questions: Email events@ctland.org or call 860-927-1927 ext. 1509
A household name in the domestic arts for decades, Martha Stewart, will sign copies of her comprehensive guide to gardening. Discover expert tips and seasonal advice from the icon herself.
Tickets for the event are available for purchase at www.tradesecretsct.com. Please note that timed entry tickets are required for admission. Book signings are included with event admission during your designated entry time, and books will be available for purchase on-site. Guests are encouraged to select the correct entry time and arrive early to ensure they have ample time to enjoy the event and secure their spot in line for these highly anticipated author signings.
Eat, Drink, Dance & Celebrate! Greenwoods provides access to high quality, affordable mental healthcare for everyone in Litchfield County.
“It’s Bugaloo on Bee Brook”
Eat, Drink, Dance & Celebrate! Greenwoods provides access to high quality, affordable mental healthcare for everyone in Litchfield County.
Saturday, May 17, 6-8:30 pm
Springhill Vineyards, Washington, CT
Tickets on sale now!
Living with Animals: A View of Flanders & Beyond – Art Exhibit & Gallery Talk
A selection of art work by accomplished local wildlife painter, Melody Asbury, will be on exhibit in the Van Vleck Gallery from May 9 to June 30. Melody is admired for her intimate portrayal of animals, and following in Natalie Van Vleck’s footsteps she has painted many of Flanders’ farm animals. She will hold a talk about her art and her journey as an artist.
Opening Night Reception: Fri, May 9 | 6 PM | Van Vleck House | Complimentary
Gallery Talk: Fri, May 30 | 6:30 PM | Van Vleck House | Complimentary, but registration requested
Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust
Van Vleck House Galleries
5 Church Hill Road
Woodbury, CT
Living with Animals: A View of Flanders & Beyond – Art Exhibit
June 23rd @ 7 pm
Join us for our bi-monthly Garden discussion group.
Bring your questions, seeds, & plants to share!
Sponsored by The Harwinton Grows Seed Library
Harwinton Public Library
80 Bentley Drive
Harwinton, CT 06791
New Milford GOAT Days Returns for Its 7th Year with Farm Fun, Hot Air Balloon Rides, and Community Spirit, May 16-18, 2025
New Milford, CT – May 5, 2025 – The New Milford Greatest-Of-All-Towns (GOAT) Days Festival, a cherished celebration of local farms, businesses, and community, returns for its seventh year at Young’s Field, 6 Young’s Field Road, New Milford, CT, from May 16-18, 2025. Hosted by Goatboy Soaps, this free event offers a weekend of family-friendly fun, with all proceeds donated to local charities.
Running Friday, May 16 (4:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.), Saturday, May 17 (10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.), and Sunday, May 18 (10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.), Young’s Field will come alive with small-town charm. Attendees can cuddle baby goats and bunnies, enjoy pony rides, soar above the festival in hot air balloon rides, and thrill to carnival rides. A carousel adds classic fun, while food trucks serve local favorites, including apple cider doughnuts from Averill Farm. Axe-throwing, demonstrations from the New Milford Police and Water Witch Hose Company #2, and local vendors like Create A Castle will delight visitors. Nonprofits will offer kid-friendly activities, showcasing community impact.
Since 2019, when Goatboy Soaps founders Rick and Lisa Agee welcomed over 1,000 visitors to their farm, GOAT Days has grown into a cornerstone event, drawing over 5,000 attendees annually. Now a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, New Milford GOAT Days Inc. has raised over $40,000 for local charities, strengthening the community.
“We’re excited to celebrate seven years of GOAT Days, bringing New Milford together for unforgettable moments,” said Michelle Agee, event coordinator. “From hot air balloon rides to baby goats, this festival is about joy and giving back.”
Admission is free, with a small donation requested at the entrance to support local charities. For the safety of animals and guests, no pets are allowed. For more information, vendor inquiries, or to volunteer, visit www.goatdays.com or contact Michelle Agee at michelle@goatboy.us or Lisa Agee at 860-350-0676. Follow New Milford GOAT Days on Facebook (@NewMilfordGOATDays) for updates.
About New Milford GOAT Days Inc.
New Milford GOAT Days Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to celebrating New Milford’s farms, businesses, and community through an annual festival. Founded by Goatboy Soaps, the event highlights local products, supports charities, and fosters family-friendly fun, with all proceeds donated to local causes.
Young’s Field
New Milford, CT 06776
https://goatdays.com
Jennifer Terzian Gallery is pleased to present Off the Grid, a two person exhibition featuring works by Carly Glovinski and Cory Emma Siegler. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, May 24 from 3pm-5pm. The show is on view through June 28.
Read as an expression, Off the Grid positions the work in a space of craft sensibility and domestic themes. Both Glovinski and Siegler’s work is closely tied to the idea of the grid as a generative framework- for patterning, quilt making, book layouts – a guiding process that allows for each artist to lean into or break away from. Off the Grid considers the visions of two artists who are invested in labor-intensive methods of creating while exploring the rhythms of repetitive processes. Glovinski and Siegler portray the material world through a unique vocabulary of personal observation, resourcefulness and tenderness involved with making by hand.
Carly Glovinski makes work that explores the make-do, resourceful attitudes associated with domestic craft and placemaking. Rooted in observations of her surrounding environment, and a curiosity about natural and human-made systems, her work embraces a slip in perception and employs a wide range of materials. The elements of time and place are often embedded, and the rhythms of repetitive processes, either invented or borrowed, are a guide.
She received her BFA from Boston University, is represented by Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York, and has had solo exhibitions at Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA and Colby Museum of Art, Maine. She has been awarded residencies at Kenyon College (Ohio), Surf Point (Maine) and Canterbury Shaker Village, and grants from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, and the Blanche Colman Trust. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally and has been published or reviewed in publications including, Two Coats of Paint, Colossal, New American Paintings, ArtMaze Magazine, and Hyperallergic, and is held in prominent collections such as Farnsworth Art Museum, Cleveland Clinic, and Fidelity Corporation.
Operating between the worlds of art, design, & craft, Cory Emma Siegler’s practice explores the tactility, functionality, and inherent potential of textiles. With a reverence for technical skill and the physicality of handiwork, Siegler creates patchwork-pieced quilted objects out of old fabrics, clothing and linens.
Used in domestic spaces–on a bed or tabletop, or wrapped around a body– these items served a purpose both quotidian and intimate. In a continued act of intimacy, Siegler extends the life of this material by breaking it down into color, shape and texture, then reconfiguring it back together piece by piece. She uses the grid as an underlying structure to create new visual and physical patterns and connections. Fusing together principles of geometric abstraction, ornamentation, and traditions of quiltmaking, hard-edged compositions are softened by the drape of the cloth and imbued with a material history and memory. Pattern and form are unified to create harmonious constructions that have the familiarity of a quilt, while also existing as something transformed, playing upon conventional modes of perception and expectation.
Cory Emma Siegler is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY who makes textile works, drawings and artists’ books. Cory earned a BFA in Printmaking from Pratt Institute in 2008. Her work has been shown in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY), Turley Gallery (Hudson, NY), MONO Practice Gallery (Baltimore, MD), 80WSE at NYU Gallery (New York, NY), Bard Graduate Center Gallery (New York, NY), and Printed Matter, Inc. (New York, NY). She has been an exhibitor at the NY Art Book Fair (MoMA PS1, Queens, NY), the Odds and Ends Art Book Fair (Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT), and the Brooklyn Art Book Fair (Brooklyn, NY) and her artists’ books are held in the permanent collections of the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art Library, and the Whitney Museum of American Art Library, among others. She has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), the Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Textile Arts Center (Brooklyn, NY), and Eileen Fisher Making Space (Brooklyn, NY).
Jennifer Terzian Gallery
3BB South Street
Litchfield
On Monday, May 12th at 3:30-5 pm students in Grades 7-12 are welcome to join us for the first program in the new teen room at the Goshen Public Library. In this free program, guests learn about the various artists and writers who have used art journals for creative expression. Students will receive their own spiral bound art journal to decorate and all art supplies and a snack will be provided.
Goshen Public Library, YA room
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