2024 Annual Corn Festival

Agricultural Heritage Center 8348 Ute Hwy, Longmont, CO 80503

The Corn Festival will be bringing Indigenous Knowledge from First Nations Peoples to the public to teach about the value and application of Ancestral and cultural teachings of regenerative agriculture and societal customs. Come celebrate, connect, learn, and dance at the Harvest of All Nations Corn Festival with us and share in the harvest of food we've grown for the people!

2024 Wheatstock Grain & Music Festival

Spirit Hound Distillers Ute Highway, Longmont, Colorado, United States

The Colorado Grain Chain invites you to celebrate grains and community by joining us at our 2nd Annual Wheatstock Grain & Music Festival at Spirit Hound Distillers. Wheatstock Grain & Music Festival is inspired by our late friend and community member, Andy Clark, who co-founded the Colorado Grain Chain. This year, we’ll be sharing the special, limited release of Barrel Fire Whiskey Legacy Edition ‘24. Come celebrate and support the Colorado Grain Chain at Wheatstock–where spirits, grains, music, and delicious food all collide. 

Reverse Tashlich

Exact location provided upon registration

Tashlich is a Rosh Hashanah ritual in which Jews begin the new year by symbolically casting off last year's sins by tossing pebbles or bread crumbs into a body of water. In 2016, the college division of Repair the Sea (Scubi Jew®️) at Eckerd College conceived the idea of hosting a Reverse Tashlich, a beach cleanup to remove human "sins" from the water.

CONPS Boulder chapter monthly meeting: Flora and Butterflies of Fishers Peak State Park

Exact location provided upon registration

Christian Nunes, wildlife ecologist, will talk about the butterflies and flora of Fishers Peak State Park at the Boulder Chapter CONPS October 2 meeting. He has been part of a team of scientists who inventoried the flora and fauna of this biologically diverse property before and after it became a state park. Please join us for this in-person (and virtual) meeting.

Lafayette Birds! First Sunday Bird Watching

Greenlee Wildlife Preserve 1600 Caria DriveLafayette, CO, 80026

All, including beginning birders, are invited to experience the fun and discovery of bird watching at the Greenlee Wildlife Preserve on the first Sunday of each month year-round. Knowledgeable bird watchers will be on hand with binoculars, spotting scopes, and learning tools to assist in the fun activity of identifying birds in their natural habitats.

NSF NCAR Explorer Series “Inside a weather modeling system: What can go wrong?”

NCAR Mesa Lab 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80305

In this Explorer Series Lecture, NSF NCAR scientist Dr. May Wong will share how a numerical weather prediction modeling system provides a prediction of future weather given initial atmospheric conditions. She will discuss the challenges behind forecasting the weather with models, as well as how scientists are working to improve our ability to make these predictions. These improvements are especially important as we plan for a world with more extreme weather conditions.

Carpe Noctem: The Wonderful World of Bats

Virtual

Join PPAN on October 10th from 12-1pm for our monthly webinar series with expert speaker Dr. Rick Adams! Bats are the second most diverse Order of Mammals on Earth today. Come learn about the unique anatomy, physiology, behavior, evolution, and ecology of bats that make them one of the most unique groups of animals in nature!

Snow Raven @ Yellow Barn Farm

Yellow Barn Farm 9417 N Foothills Hwy., Longmont

Join Snow Raven and Danza Azteca for a Rocky Mountain X Arctic Beats All-Ages Workshop. Snow Raven, born in the remote Republic of Sakha-Yakutia in Arctic Siberia, brings her unique talents as the pioneer of arctic beatbox. This all-ages workshop will:
- Sharpen your awareness of surrounding sounds
- Reconnect you with your ancestral roots and Mother Nature
- Inspire improvisation and full self-expression

YBF Action Day with Eco-Cycle

Yellow Barn Farm 9417 N Foothills Hwy., Longmont

Join us at Yellow Barn Farm for a volunteer action day to turn the farm's compost pile and learn about building healthy soil with guidance from Eco-Cycle experts! 

Saving Walden’s World Film Screening

eTown Hall 1535 Spruce Street, Boulder

THE FILM EXPLORES: 

How land reform, literacy and universal higher education dramatically increase well-being 

How family planning, child care and public health programs yielded results similar to advanced European social democracies in "poor" societies 

How many of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals were achieved by empowered women