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SUMMARY:Shorefest - Ticket sales have now closed.
DESCRIPTION:Ticket sales have now closed for our Annual fundraiser – Shorefest – Friday\, September 5th\, 6-9 pm \nThis vibrant event brings together over a hundred active supporters and their families and friends who gather at the park for a delightful seafood fest along Long Island Sound. Live music\, dinners by Westfair Fish & Chips\, appetizers\, desserts and beverages – and our fun Silent Auction. \nWhy Your Support Matters: \n\nPreserving Our Natural Gem: Your contribution directly impacts our ability to protect this scarce coastal sanctuary space in Fairfield County\, and expand\, protect\, and care for the park’s wildlife habitat\, as well as restore trees lost to storms.\nEducational Outreach: It also supports our Nature Center programs\, exhibits\, and summer interns\, providing hands-on environmental education to hundreds of children and adults among the over 350\,000 visitors to this Gateway waterfront State Park each year.\n\nThanks for your interest in our event. Since we need to provide enough time before the event for our caterer to order all the fabulous lobsters\, our ticket sales have now closed. We look forward to seeing you next year (or anytime over the next year at the park). \nThanks! \nPlease RSVP by Sunday\, August 31 for $125 Adult Dinner and $15 for Child (12 or under) OR September 1 to September 3 for $150 Adult and $15 Child
URL:https://friendsofsherwoodisland.org/event/shorefest-save-the-date-september-5-2025/
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the Winter Solstice with us on Sunday\, December 21 at 10 am
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the Winter Solstice with us on Sunday\, December 21 at 10 am. \nWe’ll teach you Winter Seed Sowing in milk jugs\, starting with a beach stroll to collect seeds. Come to the Main Pavilion promptly at 10 am. Bring a rinsed\, empty plastic milk jug\, as pictured below. We’ll have tools to cut\, label\, and make drainage holes. We’ll provide potting soil. You’ll get to take home several kinds of native wildflowers to grow outside in a protected spot. Refreshments and a surprise visitor will add to the fun.
URL:https://friendsofsherwoodisland.org/event/celebrate-the-winter-solstice-with-us-on-sunday-december-21-at-10-am/
LOCATION:Main Pavilion
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SUMMARY:Love Yourself - Get Outdoors
DESCRIPTION:February 14 – Love Yourself – Get Outdoors\nLinda Gottlieb\, FIT Trainer\, “helping people over 50 embrace exercise for healthy aging\, disease management\, and for pre and post surgical and cancer recovery” will lead us this morning.\n\nPractice green exercise. Experience ‘Forest bathing.” Learn to use the “nature pyramid” to guide your exercise.\n\n\n\nFree. All are welcome.\n\nMeet 11 am at Main Pavilion\, west side.\n\nSponsored by the Friends of Sherwood Island State Park.
URL:https://friendsofsherwoodisland.org/event/love-yourself-get-outdoors/
LOCATION:Main Pavilion
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SUMMARY:Friends’ Garden Team Summer Internship at Sherwood Island
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays 8-11 am and Fridays 2:30-5:30 pm\, May-August\, 2026 \nWe’re looking for two garden interns to assist the Friends’ Garden Team in all aspects of planning\, planting and maintaining the East Beach dunes & gardens. Interns report to the Friends’ Garden Team Captain\, Michele Sorensen\, a UConn Advanced Master Gardener\, and work as part of a team with other UConn Master Gardeners and local volunteers. A stipend is available for qualified students ages 17-22. \nWe meet at the Nature Center or in the East beach dunes or parking areas. Weeks worked depend upon your availability. We are flexible. As a volunteer at a CT State Park\, you would follow all CT DEEP guidance\, and must sign a waiver on your first day. Rolling applications\, aim for a mid-May submission. If interested\, please contact michelemsorensen@gmail.com by email or text/phone\nto 203-247-1390. \n\n\nActivities and responsibilities typically include\n\n\n\n\nLearning Opportunities & Benefits \n– Enjoy summer at this shorefront 235 acre state park\, visited or home to more than 300\nspecies of birds\, state-listed Diamondback Terrapin\, Bobcats\, Red Fox\, Coyote\, Deer.\n– Take part in our dune restoration project\, begun in 2017.\n– Learn to identify and care for native plants we’ve added along parking lot paths and in picnic\nareas along the beach.\n– Help us establish allees leading to the beach from the East Beach parking area.\n– Care for berry\, herb and vegetable plants in our Three Sisters Garden. Find out how they\nbenefit wildlife.\n– Identify pollinator host shrubs and perennials in our Pollinator Garden.\n– Learn to identify and control invasive plant species. Find out how they outcompete natives.\n– Identify & report butterflies & other pollinator insects using iNaturalist.\n– Observe and identify birds by sight and call & mammals by sight and signs.\n– Mini-lesson topics include pruning\, plant pathogens & soil amendments.\n– Assist with programming\, such as garden demonstrations and tours.\n– Help us create interpretive signage in English and Spanish.\n– Try out a variety of hand tools\, and learn how to care for them. We can provide tools. \nWe Appreciate\n– On-time attendance\, a strong work ethic & reliability\n– Enthusiasm for learning\n– Previous experience with gardening or landscape work is helpful\, but not required.
URL:https://friendsofsherwoodisland.org/event/friends-garden-team-summer-internship-at-sherwood-island/
LOCATION:Nature Center
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SUMMARY:Connecticut Trails Day - June 6 and 7
DESCRIPTION:It’s time for Connecticut Trails Day and here is what is happening at Sherwood Island State Park \nSaturday\, June 6 at 2pm: Beach to Beach walk with Louis Peitig \nSunday\, June 7 at 2pm: historical walk with Louis Peitig \nMore information to follow!
URL:https://friendsofsherwoodisland.org/event/connecticut-trails-day-june-6-and-7/
LOCATION:Nature Center
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SUMMARY:Come to our Annual Meeting - Sunday\, June 28 at 4pm at the Nature Center
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our Annual Meeting on Sunday\, June 28th at 4 pm at the Nature Center. Please join us while we review the year and vote on the 2026-2027 Board and Officers. After the business portion of the meeting\, please stay for a chance to meet other Friends of Sherwood Island State Park and talk about what you would like to see at the park. Refreshments will be served. Open to All!
URL:https://friendsofsherwoodisland.org/event/please-join-us-for-our-annual-meeting-on-sunday-june-7th-at-4-pm-at-the-nature-center/
LOCATION:Nature Center
CATEGORIES:Nature Center
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SUMMARY:Thank You to the Garden Team for all their work!!!
DESCRIPTION:The Friends’ Garden Team has started its 9th year working in the East Beach dunes\, gardens\, picnic areas and parking lot. \n\nThis April the team planted 3\,600 beach grass stems in two rows fronting the Sound to reinforce the dunes for possible storms this season.  In April 2025\, they planted 110 feet of new dunes\, completing the restoration of the East Beach from the point to the East Beach Bath House.\n\nEach year the team fertilize and water the newly planted grasses\, paying careful attention to rainfall deficits.\nThey continue to weed\, water\, mulch and repair/replace fencing on over 100 trees and shrubs planted in the East Beach area.  They maintain the Three Sisters and Pollinator Gardens\, adding plants\, fertilizing\, weeding and watering.\nAnd this year they hope to have two student garden interns to help their team of 12 local volunteers and Master Gardeners.
URL:https://friendsofsherwoodisland.org/event/thank-you-to-the-garden-team-for-all-their-work/
LOCATION:Nature Center
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