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Cherry Lawn Community Gardens
Celebrate 50 Years of Cherry Lawn Community Gardens!
Join us on Saturday, June 28th (rain date: June 29th) from 1:00–4:00 PM at Cherry Lawn Park as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Darien’s Cherry Lawn Community Gardens! This free, family-friendly event will feature fun and educational activities for all ages — and Darien Land Trust will be there!
Stop by our table to learn about our local little brown bat, an endangered species vital to our ecosystem. Eagle Scout candidate Kate Johnson has built 6 large bat boxes for Land Trust preserves and will be on hand to share her knowledge and her process for constructing these custom-built homes. Join us for a fun community art project inspired by these fascinating nighttime pollinators.
Location: Cherry Lawn Park, 120 Brookside Road (next to the playground)
Celebrate the Land
Join us for Celebrate the Land, an elegant and sustainable evening under the stars at Waterbury Field on Saturday, September 6 at 5:30 PM. Enjoy locally sourced food, live music, and great company as we gather in support of Darien Land Trust’s mission to preserve and protect the natural beauty of our community. Tickets go on sale August 1.
We are deeply grateful to our sponsors for their generous early support of Celebrate the Land. Their commitment helps make this special evening possible and directly supports our mission. Thank you for helping us safeguard the land we all cherish!
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please click here.
- DR Bank
- The Nancy Dauk Team, Compass Group
- Land Rover Darien
- Baywater Properties
- Residence at Selleck’s Woods
- Montauk Distilling Company
- Belpointe Company
- Tyton Partners
- BMW of Darien
- Norwalk Vet
- Ring’s End
- Rolleri & Sheppard CPAS, LLP
- Hollow Tree Self Storage
- Cross Private Client Insurance
- Northeast Hardwood
Recent Events
Adventure Day
Join us for a day of outdoor fun at Adventure Day!
Walk our beautiful nature trails, soar through the air on the zipline, and test your skills with games in Adventure Land. Explore local ecology at hands-on activity stations featuring live animals, and take a magical stroll through the Gnome and Fairy Village. Don’t miss the I Spy Corner, and cool off with a sweet treat from the Mister Softee ice cream truck!
Register today to join the fun:
We’re also looking for volunteers!
If you’d like to help make Adventure Day a success, sign up to volunteer here.
Lawns for Life
Trail Fix Day
Please join us for our annual trail fix and clean up! We’ll be sprucing up Dunlap and Selleck’s Woods. Please wear gloves and working shoes and bring a rake, fork and wheelbarrow (if possible).
Parking located at the end of Parklands Drive. Register here.
Spring into Nature
Join the Darien Land Trust at Spring into Nature for a fun, hands-on activity all about bats!
Did you know bats are the only mammals that can fly like birds? And they use something called echolocation — sending out sounds and listening for echoes — to find their food in the dark.
Come visit our table to see how bats help us by eating pesky insects (8,000 per night!) and learn cool ways to help protect these amazing nighttime creatures.
Author Talk: Jacqueline Emery and David Lei, Finding Flaco
Did you fall in love with Flaco, the Eurasian Eagle-owl who escaped the Central Park Zoo and captured the hearts of millions?
Join the Darien Land Trust, Darien Library, and Darien Nature Center on Thursday, April 17 at 7 PM at Darien Library for a special author event with wildlife photographers Jacqueline Emery and David Lei.
Their new book, Finding Flaco: Our Year with New York City’s Beloved Owl, chronicles the incredible journey of Flaco — from his escape and first clumsy flights to becoming a symbol of resilience and wonder in the heart of Manhattan. Emery and Lei observed Flaco over 150 times, capturing intimate photos and stories that show how he learned to fly, hunt, and survive in the wild.
To learn more about Flaco’s incredible adventures, register here.
Author Talk with Pamela Lowell: My Summer with Ospreys
The Darien Nature Center, Darien Land Trust and Darien Library invite you to an inspiring talk with author and therapist Pamela Lowell about her new book, My Summer With Ospreys: A Therapist’s Journey Toward Hope, Community, and Healing Our Planet. In this deeply personal narrative, Lowell, a trauma specialist and avid birder, shares her transformative experience accompanying Mass Audubon on their weekly Osprey nest monitoring project on the Westport River.
Register here.
Beyond Zero
Don’t Miss This Eye-Opening Documentary on Business and Sustainability!
Join Darien Land Trust and our partners—Darien Library, Darien Nature Center, Darien Pollinator Pathway, Garden Club of Darien, and Darien Green Wave—for a powerful screening of Beyond Zero. This must-see documentary tells the remarkable true story of Interface, a billion-dollar global carpet company that went from being an environmental offender to a groundbreaking leader in sustainability.
Follow visionary CEO Ray Anderson as he takes an extraordinary leap, challenging corporate norms and risking everything to eliminate his company’s negative environmental impact by 2020. His bold transformation sparks a new industrial revolution—one that proves sustainability and profitability can go hand in hand.
Don’t miss this inspiring film that will leave you rethinking the future of business, industry, and our planet! Register here.
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