What's Your Nature?
Become a Nature Up North explorer to share your encounters with wild things and wild places in New York's North Country. Post your wildlife sightings, landscape shots, photos from your outings, and even your organization's events!
Intro to Fishing Clinic
Join the Nature Up North Team to learn about local fish and how to cast - fishing poles included, free of charge!
Natural Tie-Dye with Plants!
Natural dying is an ancient practice of using natural plant or animal products to dye textiles. Most clothing today is dyed with synthetic dye, but you can experience the magic of coloring an article of clothing with plants you can find in your backyard! Join us for a workshop on how to identify these plants, and dye your own bandana to take home with our dyes! RSVP to info@natureupnorth.org.
Summer Solstice Campfire
Come celebrate the longest day of summer sun with us! We will tell some stories, and there will be a short talk about foraging, after which we will share "Wild S'mores" - s'mores featuring different common wild edible plants. Feel free to bring a short story or appreciation to share.
Campfire Jam with Barb Heller
Nature Up North and TAUNY invite you to a night of music and fun around the fire! Bring your guitar, your friends, and family for a night of sing/play-along with NCPR's Barb Heller. We'll be playing and singing traditional campfire songs with a few requests added. No musical expertise required, just 4 or 5 basic chords will do it. Barb will guide you through the chord changes, so just come and have a good time. Not interested in playing? Just come to sing or listen! This event is free and open to the public. Come a few minutes early if you need help tuning up. S’mores will be provided!
Evening Paddle on the Little River
Looking to get out on the water? Join us for a relaxing evening paddling on the Little River in Canton. You can bring your own canoe or kayak, or borrow one from us for free. Never paddled before? No problem! We'll be happy to provide tips for newer paddlers. Meet at the Little River Boat Launch on Park Street/Rt. 27 in Canton at 6:30pm.
This event is part of our Summer Paddling Series. Join us on Thursdays June 28th, July 12th and July 26th for Evening Paddles, and June 30 for our Water Plant Paddle (family friendly).
Evening Paddle on the Little River
Looking to get out on the water? Join us for our relaxing evening paddling on the Little River in Canton. You can bring your own canoe or kayak, or borrow one from us for free. Never paddled before? No problem! We'll be happy to providing tips for newer paddlers. Meet at the Little River Boat Launch on Park Street/Rt. 27 in Canton at 6:30pm.
This event is part of our Summer Paddling Series. Join us on Thursdays June 28th, July 12th and July 26th for Evening Paddles, and June 30 for our Water Plant Paddle (family friendly).
Evening Paddle on the Little River
Looking to get out on the water? Join us for our relaxing evening paddling on the Little River in Canton. You can bring your own canoe or kayak, or borrow one from us for free. Never paddled before? No problem! We'll be happy to providing tips for newer paddlers. Meet at the Little River Boat Launch on Park Street/Rt. 27 in Canton at 6:30pm.
This event is part of our Summer Paddling Series. Join us on Thursdays June 28th, July 12th and July 26th for Evening Paddles, and June 30 for our Water Plant Paddle (family friendly).
Garlic Mustard Pull with the Canton Garden Club
Nature Up North and the Canton Garden Club teamed up this week to pull garlic mustard from where it's growing in Canton and make homemade pesto! Garlic mustard, while invasive today, was a common addition to gardens in the 1800's for the delicious garlic-y flavor of it's leaves. After a successful hour pulling (we collected 7 bags!) we headed back to the TAUNY kitchen to make garlic mustard pesto and share a meal together. Thanks to the Garden Club for their help, and to TAUNY for the use of their beautiful kitchen.
Water Monitoring at Hart's Falls
Greeted by sunning frogs and a gushing waterfall, the day was a perfect one to carry out water monitoring procedures along the Grasse River. The team waded into clear water about a foot deep to determine water quality using a number of chemical and physical testing methods. After an hour of sorting through dozens of macroinvertebrates including caddisflies, riffle beetles, and mayflies to analyze species ratios of varying tolerances, the water quality of Hart's Falls is looking good!
Welcoming Our Summer Interns
Days are getting longer, butterflies and dragonflies are out, and it's swimming weather by North Country standards - summer is here! At the start of June we welcomed our three summer interns Alyssa LaCoy, Maggie Jensen, and Jess LaMay to the team here at Nature Up North. They'll be with us through early August, and are looking forward to spending their summer visiting farmer's markets, organizing community events and workshops, and leading hikes and paddles around the region.
