Tue, May 12
|Smokey House Center
Women-Centered Spring Ephemerals Walk
While Vermont’s maple sugaring season is wrapping up, our spring forests will be just getting started preparing a whole new batch of sweet treats—spring ephemeral flowers!
Time & Location
May 12, 2026, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Smokey House Center, 426 Danby Mountain Rd, Danby, VT 05739, USA
About the event
NEW DATE DUE TO WEATHER: May 12th
While Vermont’s maple sugaring season is wrapping up, our spring forests will be just getting started preparing a whole new batch of sweet treats—spring ephemeral flowers! For a fleeting window from late April through mid-May, spring ephemerals carpet the leaflitter of our rich hardwood forests, offering a bonanza of pollen and nectar to early pollinators. On May 12th, come join Rose Gellman (Smokey House Center), Tessa McGann (County Forester), and Fen Levy-O’Malley (Audubon Vermont) for an evening ephemerals walk through the Smokey House Center sugarbush. We will practice ephemeral species identification, talk about their importance as indicators of soil health, and draw connections to biodiversity in the broader forest.
This event is generously sponsored by Women and Our Woods.
Meet at the Smokey House Center parking lot at 4:45 PM! From there we will walk the campus sugarbush from 5-7PM, and refreshments will be provided afterward.