Exploring Nature Through Story!
A storybook walk at Red Rose Preserve in 2020
This spring and summer, KELT is excited to offer storybook trails across the region!
With the help of passionate volunteers, KELT has designed storyboards that will serve as temporary exhibits at a number of our preserves this spring and summer. Come to one or come to all for nature themed stories and outdoor activities for children 6 years old and younger. With a chaperoning adult, young children will be able to walk a trail, explore a preserve, or visit LOCAL garden while reading a beloved children’s nature book one page at a time.
Come explore the wonders of the LOCAL Garden in south Bath while reading “Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt” by Kate Messner.
Where? LOCAL Garden, on the corner of High and Lemont Streets in south Bath
When? Temporary Installation will be up from Sunday, June 19th at 10:00AM to Sunday, June 26th at 5:00PM.
Closed toed shoes that can get wet and muddy are recommended.
No registration is required, but pictures of your visit would be greatly appreciated! You can send to info@kennebecestuary.org.
Directions to LOCAL Garden: the LOCAL Garden is located at the corner of High Street and Lemont Street in Bath. From downtown, head south on High Street for ~1.8 miles. Turn left onto Lemont Street. Parking is on the left in front on the garden.
About “Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt and ” by Kate Messner:
Up in the garden, the world is full of green--leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie hidden between the stalks, under the shade of leaves and down in the dirt.
2022 KELT Storybook Trail Schedule (subject to change):
May 21st - 27th: “Little Sap” at Green Point Preserve
May 28th: “Song of the Water Boatman” at Thorne Head Preserve (as part of Pond-o-palooza)
June 19th-26th: “Up in the Garden, Down in the Dirt” at LOCAL Garden
July 23rd-30th: “The Bug Club” at Merrymeeting Fields Preserve
August 20th-27th: “Let’s go on a Hike” at Sewall Woods Preserve
