Sunday, September 8th at 10:00am Attention all Fungi enthusiasts! We invite you to join Silvio Mazzerese who is leading our 2024 Mushroom Fungi walk. Silvio is our mushroom fungi expert. This is an identification-only – non-foraging walk due to the no-foraging policy of the Nature Preserve. Please meet at 316 North Cambridge Road at the Read more

Saturday 3 August 2024, 10:00 am.With Liz Thompson Meet at the Preserve Entrance and parking lot, 316 North Cambridge Road, Cambridge We are fortunate to have Liz Thompson, one of Vermont’s top botanists and ecologists, leading this walk on the Preserve. Liz is a co-author of the well-known publication Wetland, Woodland, Wildland and has dedicated Read more

Saturday 27 July, 9 amWith Spencer Hardy of VCEMeet at the Preserve Entrance and parking lot, 316 North Cambridge Road, Cambridge Spencer Hardy is a biologist with the Vermont Center for Ecostudies and an expert in bees. For the past 4+ years, he has traversed the state chasing bees and trying to better understand the Read more

Sunday June 16th, 7:00am Krusch Preserve – meet at the entrance parking lot, 316 North Cambridge Road, Cambridge Led by led by Roo and Jack Slagle (accompanied by Sally Laughlin) Our birdwalk on 5/22 located 31 species, including Winter Wren, Hermit and Wood Thrush, and six species of warblers. To date 82 bird species have Read more

Saturday 1 June 2024, 7:00 amKrusch Preserve – meet at the entrance parking lot, 316 North Cambridge Road, CambridgeAnnette Kalinoski, an enthusiastic birder who especially likes working with new birders, and Sally Laughlin, organizer of the 1st Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Vermont, will lead this walk. Over 70 species of birds have been Read more

The Krusch Preserve is having its annual wildflower walk on Sunday, May 12th (Mother’s Day) at 10:00am. Join Vermont Master Naturalists Lara Weis and Mary Fiedler for a walk about the preserve in search of wildflowers. Please meet at 316 North Cambridge Road at 10:00 am.  To pre-register please email events@kruschnaturepreserve.org Walk report at this Read more

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 7:00 amKrusch Preserve – meet at the entrance parking lot, 316 North Cambridge Road, Cambridge. This walk will be led by Annette Kalinoski, an enthusiastic birder who especially likes working with new birders, and Sally Laughlin, organizer of the 1st Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Vermont. Springtime is an ideal Read more

Sunday, April 21st, 10:00 am to Noon.Peter A Krusch Nature Preserve, 316 North Cambridge Road, Jeffersonville, VTPlease register by emailing events@kruschnaturepreserve.org Hello Nature Lovers Out there!It seems like Spring! Come join a “Signs of spring” walk on Sunday, April 21, at 10:00 am at the Cambridge Peter A Krusch Nature Preserve. We will be walking the Read more

Gather at the Krusch Preserve Labyrinth to celebrate the Spring Equinox Sunday 17 March at 2 pm (two days early for this year’s actual equinox). The Equinoxes mark the time when, in the Earth’s yearly passage around the Sun, day and night are equal in length. Although here at our latitude Spring is not yet Read more

Sunday February 18th at 10:00 am Attention all Winter Walkers who want to be informed about wildlife that abounds in the winter on the Krusch Preserve. Join naturalist Sophie Mazowita (of the Vermont Master Naturalist Program) on a winter wildlife tracking walk at the Krusch Preserve. We’ll search for tracks and signs that reveal the Read more

Saturday, December 16, 2:00pm. Join us for a simple celebration marking the winter solstice, the longest night, and the first day of winter. With fresh snow on the ground and fire in our hearts, we will gather to share hopes, a space for peace, energy, and reflection on the natural world as the seasons change Read more

Postponed Sunday November 5th, 9:30am.To Saturday, November 11th, 10:00am Krusch Nature Preserve, 316 North Cambridge Road, Cambridge VT.Please register by emailing Events@KruschNaturePreserve.org Hello Geology Enthusiasts! Stephen Wright our local geologist and professor at the Geography and GeoSciences Department of the University of Vermont will lead us on a geological tour through the Krusch Preserve on Sunday November Read more

Sunday, September 10th at 10:00amPostponed to Sunday, September 17th at 10:00 am See photographs from this walk at this link Attention all Fungi enthusiasts! We invite you to join Silvio Mazzerese who is leading our 2023 Mushroom Fungi walk on Sunday, September 10th at 10:00 am. Silvio is our mushroom fungi expert. This is an Read more

Come join a quiet celebration of the autumnal equinox at the Peter A. Krusch Preserve labyrinth on September 16th at 4 p.m. (Yes, we know the equinox is actually on Saturday the 23rd but previous commitments have us offering this one week early!)  Please plan on parking at the Krusch Preserve Parking Lot and walking to the Read more

Sunday 13 August 2023, 7:30 pm.Rescheduled to Saturday 19 August 2023, 7:30 pm.Krusch Nature Preserve, 316 North Cambridge Road, Cambridge VT.Preregister by emailing Events@KruschNaturePreserve.org Bat enthusiast Bill Giezentanner will lead this walk to search for bats on the Krusch Preserve using sound technology. Recording bats’ echolocation “calls” is an efficient and non-intrusive way to identify what Read more

When: June 25th, 1:00pm(Rain Date June 30th) (A report on this walk is available at this link) Join Vermont Butterfly Atlas Coordinator Nathaniel Sharp from the Vermont Center for Ecostudies for a leisurely and informative pollinator walk around the Krusch Preserve. From bees to butterflies to hover flies, pollinators may be more diverse than you think, Read more

Springtime is an ideal time to see and hear birds, with song all around as migratory species return and join the year-round residents, and is a great time to learn to identify birds by sight and sound. Over 70 species of birds occur in the varied habitats of the Krusch Nature Preserve. Walks are led Read more