Flying Deer Nature Center

06/11/2026

06/11/2026

💚💚💚Flying Deer Day, June 13, 2026, 11:00 am–4:00 pm💚💚💚

All proceeds benefit our Financial Assistance Fund, supporting people of all ages to access transformative nature programming.

🌺🌺CHECK OUR BIO TO REGISTER AND FOR MORE DETAILS!🌺🌺

💚💚💚We’re grateful for generous donations from:💚💚💚

🌞 Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health
🌞Blue Star Farm
🌞Gould Farm
🌞Little Seed Farm
🌞Hawthorne Valley Farm Store
🌞The Berkshire Coop

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06/07/2026

🌿🌺 SEE YOU SATURDAY 🌺🌿

💚Join us for FLYING DEER DAY, this Saturday, June 13, 11:00 am–4:00 pm in East Chatham!

💚Join us for a fun-filled celebration for all ages! Nature activity stations, delicious lunch options, bake sale, a roving magician, and Olympic Games—plus cool Flying Deer merch on sale!

💚All proceeds benefit our Financial Assistance Fund, supporting people of all ages to access transformative nature programming.

🔥🔥🔥FLYING DEER DAY SCHEDULE🔥🔥🔥

🌺11:00 am: Opening Circle & Community Fire-Lighting

🌺11:45 am: Nature Stations Open:

• Skull identification table
• Hatchet throwing
• Archery
• Cordage and stone pendants
• Face painting
• Friction fire making
• Herbalist-led plant walks
• Fairy house village
• Create a flower crown
• Lunch Buffet and Bake Sale Open
• Seltzer or Lilac Lemonade: $2

🌺11:45 am: Lunch Buffet and Bake Sale Open:

• Locally made Gould Farm hot dog, organic Bilinski sausage, or veggie dog, served on an organic bun: $7

• Picnic Plate (pasta primavera, green salad, and rice and beans): $6
• Hot dog/sausage, Picnic Plate, and beverage: $12
• Lilac lemonade or seltzer: $2
• Luna Moth Bake Sale

🌏We’re aiming for a zero-waste event! Thank you in advance for bringing your own plates, cup, and utensils!!🌏

🌺2:30–4:00 pm: Olympic Games, Flying Deer style!

You can find event registration in our BIO for admission and food, so you're all set when you arrive!

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06/07/2026

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06/07/2026

🌿🌿🌿 SEE YOU SATURDAY 🌿🌿🌿

Join us for Flying Deer Day, this Saturday, June 13, 11:00 am–4:00 pm in East Chatham!

Join us for a fun-filled celebration for all ages! Nature activity stations, delicious lunch options, bake sale, a roving magician, and Olympic Games—plus cool Flying Deer merch on sale!

All proceeds benefit our Financial Assistance Fund, supporting people of all ages to access transformative nature programming.

⬇🔥Register online for admission and food, so you're all set when you arrive!🔥⬇

REGISTER HERE OR IN BIO------>:

Join us for a fun-filled celebration for all ages! Tons of nature activity stations, delicious lunch options, bake sale, a roving magician, and Olympic Games!

05/26/2026

🌺🌺🌺 We have arrived at the end of our Spring semester! 🌺🌺🌺

This has been such a joyful season of learning, exploring and creating with our students. Your curiosity, determination and sincere love of nature has been magical to witness.

Thank you to our educators for always showing up for our students with inspiration, wisdom and care. It takes much planning, resourcing, envisioning, and devotion to create these unforgettable days we share.

Plus, lots of preparedness, spirit and tick spray!

🔥We hope to see you on JUNE 13TH for FLYING DEER DAY!-Save that date!🔥

🔥We hope to see you this summer, there are still spaces available for RUN WILD CAMP!🔥

🔥Don't forget to register for FALL PROGRAMS, registration is open now!🔥

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05/24/2026

7 years ago 💚

05/19/2026

🌿🌿🌿APPLY NOW FOR SUMMER CAMP STAFF POSITIONS!🌿🌿🌿

🍄 We’re assembling our 2026 team of leaders and mentors. Apply now and spend summer in the forest!

🍄 Flying Deer staff are chosen based on their felt connection with nature, their capacity to share nature and wilderness teachings, and their ability to create space in which campers can thrive.

🍄 Flying Deer Nature Center is an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to widening the circle of nature connection to include people of all cultures, races, ethnicities, national origins, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities. We value diversity and the different perspectives and skills of all our staff.

🍄Please note: The counselor application for Summer 2026 is now closed. Please reach out to Topaz at [email protected] with any questions and if you would like to be an instructor 18+!

🍄LINK IN BIO OR GO-------> https://flyingdeernaturecenter.org/staff-application-for-summer-camp/

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05/16/2026

Butter Battles and Dough Belly on sticks are some our favorite yummy traditions at Flying Deer!

To battle for butter, each group stuffs heavy cream and chopped ramps in to jars and shakes mega-vigorously. Whoever has achieved buttery chunks first is the winner!

This is a great project to do at home with your children. You can add anything you like to the cream like dandelions, violets, red nettle, garlic mustard and ramps will always be a favorite.

Dough Belly on a stick is simply pizza dough wrapped around a stick and toasted to perfection on an open fire. Dip a toasty Dough Belly into some ramp pesto and know tasty bliss!

On the menu at the finest little eaterie around has been ramp butters, nettle cakes, violet lemonade, sautéed ramps, nettles and dandelion greens, acorn ash cakes, barberry leaves, wild chives, garlic mustard, violet flowers, wild fruit vinegar dressing, wild viburnum, morel mushrooms, fresh spring lemony tasting tamarack needles, and fresh spruce tips.

All of these delights infused with the warm, beautiful essence of a shared campfire, songs, stories, friendship and tons of laughter.

Sure, you might find pine needles in your hair, a few ants up your nose, perhaps a toad quietly judging you, but that's part of the charm at Grandmother Maple's Little Cafe de la Foret!

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05/14/2026

Check this great program out with our great friend Sarah Latifa 💜

Come explore our garden with your family and discover the wonders growing all around us. Children will learn about edible plants, helpful insects, and the basics of gardening through hands-on exploration. Each child will make their own potted herb to take home and enjoy with the whole family.

Learn more: theabode.org/programs