Learn beekeeping, astronomy, more at Ansonia Nature Center

BACK TO BASICS: Beekeeping 101 - 2 p.m. Saturday
Learn the basics to start your own hive. Take a close-up look at the queen, workers, and drones with bee keeper Dawn Sotir.
See it all first-hand inside the Nature Center’s observation hive. Free; please register.

HEALTHY LIVING SERIES – 2 p.m. Sunday

Join us for the last of our three-part healthy living series. We’ll learn about growing healthy food from Jeff Rubelmann, healthy homesteader and certified permaculturist. 

We will focus on the interactions in soil, creating and building rich healthy soil, pH, soil fertilizers, compost teas, 18-day compost method, and worm farms.

This class is just in time to apply some of these techniques and knowledge to your 2015 garden season. Free; please register.

SPRING EQUINOX DRUMMING WITH CHE CARTAFALSA - 2 p.m. March 21
Che Cartafalsa is a musician, instrument maker, and educator whose work has ranged from concert halls and orchestras to rock bands and West African street weddings. As a member of Toubabou and the White-Eyed Lizard Band, he has played throughout the Northeast. 

Che passes on to his students what he has learned from African percussion masters, emphasizing instrumental technique, listening skills and multi-layered rhythms in percussion. Authentic instruments will be used to help us learn traditional African rhythms. Free; please register.

WINTER ASTRONOMY - 7 p.m. March 28
Did you ever wonder how a star is born? Come to learn on a great night with “Bobcat” Carruthers and members of the New Haven Astronomical Society.
Find out about the life and death of stars and the different types of stars in our universe. Venture outside (weather permitting) to view not only the stars but also Jupiter and its moons. Free; please register.

To register for any programs or for more information call 203-736-1053.


This is a press release from the Ansonia Nature and Recreation Center.