Community Calendar

North Sky Raptor Sanctuary presents, Raptor's LIVE! Sponsored by the Almira Township Parks.

Bring a chair or a blanket to this family friendly event in a beautiful park, located just outside Lake Ann.

Learn about birds of prey and see ambassador birds up close and personal.

Join the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy for a presentation followed by Q&A with GTRLC’s Chris Garrock, Brett Fessell of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Christine Crissman of The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay and DJ Shook of Conservation Resource Alliance.

Once featured in National Geographic’s 1996 article “Our Polluted Runoff,” the impaired Mitchell Creek Meadows watershed is experiencing a comeback, thanks to a robust partnership with our community partners: Conservation Resource Alliance, the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians and The Watershed Center.

Come and hear a story about what’s possible when partners bring diverse perspectives, expertise, and resources to a shared conservation goal.

For more information, please click here.

This event is part of our 2026 Priority Landscapes Learning Series.

Please note that food will not be served; we recommend that you plan to grab a bite before or after joining us.

Plant It Wild hosts a panel discussion covering lawn regulations in municipalities, Home Owner Associations, and Condo Associations. How can the rules be changed to encourage native plant habitats to expand in our communities. Bring your questions, ideas, and successes!

To join on Zoom, go to Plantitwild.net and join the mailing list.

Pet the worms and meet the microbes making your soil!

Join an afternoon of hands-on fun at the SEEDS Compost Petting Zoo, where kids and adults alike can discover the tiny organisms doing the dirty work to transform waste into healthy soil. Get a close-up look at eight different composting systems, stroll along a Compost StoryWalk with Traverse Area District Library, and enjoy face painting, games, activities and more!

This is a family-friendly event–all ages are welcome! There will be a variety of kid-friendly activities including:

- Farm-to-table educational activities and games with Oryana Community Co-op
- Compost Storywalk & Bookmobile with The Traverse Area District Library
- Free face painting with Blush Face Painting
- Art-making and sensory play with Let’s Play! Studio
- Other fun activities like hands-on microbe bingo, compost cornhole and more!

This event is part of the Michigan Organics Council’s Great Michigan Compost Tour. Food rescuers, animal feed operators, and composters across the state are hosting tours to highlight how surplus food, yard waste, and food scraps are rescued to feed hungry people or transformed into valuable animal feed or soil amendments. The other tours in our Northern Michigan region are featured in this event series. Most tours take place outdoors, so we advise participants to dress in weather-appropriate layers.

Hosted by SEEDS Ecology & Education Centers

Bring gratitude, curiosity, pen, paper, lunch, water, and head east of Wolverine, into the vast Pigeon River Forest, to Greenwood Foundation, a 2000-acre non-profit wildlife haven where we will forget about the world for a while, lighten up, create new friends; observe the living earth; write and reflect in the tradition of American nature writing. We will consider how our stories can shape the attitudes of future generations.

For more information and to register, please click here.

Amy Lipson, LTC Conservation Specialist, and her husband Joe Lipson, owner of Mycotorphy LLC (a local business offering guided mushrooming adventures) will co-lead a foraging adventure to look for interesting fungi, and maybe even find some choice edibles! This mushroom hike will be primarily an on-trail guided walk. If there are not many mushrooms out due to dry weather, we will shift to a standard nature hike.

Hopefully we will have good mushroom weather and be able to find lots of honey-mushrooms! ADDRESS: 10251 Brutus Road, Brutus

For information about this and other events, please visit our website.

Michigan Avian Experience hosts a program on rescued eagles. All are welcome!

Just as we welcomed the Summer Solstice in June, we will be welcoming the Fall Equinox by watching the sunrise at the Jack Mertaugh Nature Preserve. If you joined us this summer, you will get to see how the light changes with the seasons and how the sun moves in the sky as the Earth tilts. If you did not, you get to experience the sunrise from a lakeside preserve with fresh eyes.

Join the East Bay Branch Library in welcoming wildlife veterinarian, author, and photographer Dr. Carl Palazollo to celebrate the comeback of the bald eagle in Michigan!

Participants will learn all about our national symbol, what it’s like to be a wildlife veterinarian, and how they can be good stewards to this iconic bird!

Program will be held in the SOUTH conference room of the East Bay Township Building.

Waldron Fen is a well-known destination for birding, and this should be prime time to catch the migration of warblers on their route to their southern homes.

Quinn will share his wealth of knowledge about our winged friends! ADDRESS: 9417 Banwell Road, Alanson

For information about this and other events, please visit our website.