MAHOOSUC LAND TRUST
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2025 Monarch Festival
August 23-24
About the Festival
The annual Habitat For All Monarch Festival is MLT's largest educational event. Spanning two days, the Festival is a free, family-friendly event that promotes habitat and biodiversity conservation by inspiring us to reimagine our backyards as sanctuaries for pollinators and ourselves. It reminds us that being outdoors for play, discovery, and habitat creation, makes for a better world for all.
Weekend Agenda
Saturday, August 23
Keynote speaker: Ethan Tapper
Bingham Auditorium
Gould Academy, Bethel
6:00 p.m.
Ethan Tapper is a man of many talents - forester, author, digital creator and a member of a punk band. Through his work as a private and community forester, Ethan has witnessed a spectrum of forest management approaches from clear cut to hands off. How to Love a Forest walks us through the fragile and resilient community that is a forest, introducing us to wolf trees and spring ephemerals, to the cryptic creatures of the rhizosphere and the necrosphere. It helps us reimagine what forests are and what it means to care for them. This world, Tapper writes, is degraded both by people who do too much and by those who do nothing. As the ecosystems that sustain all life struggle, we straddle a status quo that treats ecosystems as commodities and opposing claims that the only true expression of love for the natural world is to leave it alone.


Sunday, August 24
MLT Annual Meeting
Valentine Farm 162 North Road, Bethel
11:00 - noon Opening remarks by Ethan Tapper
Monarch Festival
Noon - 4:00

All Day Activites 12:00- 4:00
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​Habitat For All Garden is Open
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Turtle Rescue League & Live Turtles
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Self-guided Birding Trail
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Natural Dye Painting
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Artisan Vendors
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Xerces Society Booth
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Make a Bud Vase Pooh Corner Farm
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BAAM Activity - Pollinator Headbands
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Spin Art with Art Van
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Self-guided Storybook Walk
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Earn a Junior Naturalist Badge
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Lawn Games
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Mahoosuc Land Trust Information
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Extra Raffle tickets available until 3 pm​
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Timed Activities
12:00-3:00 - Lunch Available:
Burgers, Dogs, Salads, Cookies, Drinks (as supplies last)
12:30-3:00 - Bugs in Maine and Beyond
1:00-1:30 - All About Monarchs (Big Tent)
1:30-2:00 - Children's Storytime (West Loop picnic table)
1:30-2:00 - Bird Walk (meet at parking lot kiosk)
1:30-3:00 - Monarch Tagging (Pollinator Alley)
2:00-3:00 - How To Make A Flower Bouquet Demo (Main Tent)
2:00 - 2:45 - Family Friendly Woods Walk (meet at parking lot kiosk)
2:30 -3:00 - BAAM Pollinator Parade (meet at parking lot kiosk)
3:00 - Raffle Ticket Sales End
3:00-3:30 - Bird Walk (meet at parking lot kiosk)
3:30 - Raffle Winners Announced
4:00 - Festival Ends