Take an inside look at the restored 1730s house listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse/Henry David Thoreau Birth House. Locally, it is also known as “Thoreau Farm.” Tour includes the lovingly restored second-floor room where Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817. Visits to the house are by guided […]
Catherine Staples in conversation with Richard Higgins about the importance of Thoreau in the writing of her newest book of poetry, VERT, which is part elegy, part quest, part paean to the natural world. Staples grew up in Massachusetts and it’s there, in New England woods, meadows, and Cape Cod coasts, that the loss of […]
JOIN THE MA YOUNG BIRDERS CLUB TO EXPLORE THOREAU’S BACKYARD! Join Massachusetts Young Birders at Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau in Concord for a morning of birding. We will meander through wetlands and woodlands looking for spring favorites in Thoreau’s backyard. We will be meeting at the parking lot behind the Thoreau […]
Join us at Thoreau Farm in Concord to get a closer look at some of our most iconic pollinators! Meet beekeeper Mel Gadd and learn why honeybees and other pollinators are important to our ecosystems, see live bees in an active hive, and learn some of the basics about keeping honeybees.
Join The Thoreau Farm and The Walden Woods Project for a discussion on Helen Humphrey’s "Followed by the Lark". Inspired by the life, letters, and diaries of Henry David Thoreau, "Followed by the Lark" shows how strikingly similar the concerns of the early nineteenth century are to our own, and reminds us to listen for news of change: the […]
