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Bringing Natalie Home: An Exhibit of Natalie Van Vleck’s Art

This is the first comprehensive exhibit of Natalie’s artwork in the newly established gallery located inside the historic house. The exhibit opens on Friday, February 7 and her artwork will be on display throughout the year.

Birthday Parties at Flanders!

Affordable and fun there are a variety of nature themed parties to choose from including animals and art to fairy fun.

Scout Programs

We can help your Boy and Girl Scouts earn badges and complete community service projects! Programs can be tailored to the needs of individual troops. 

Supervised Agricultural Experience

Our North Barn, under the guidance of our Farm Manager, offers an excellent opportunity to learn and apply knowledge about the care of livestock.

Little Explorers

Trail House

What a wonderful world we share with nature! Our young explorers will be amazed as they hike trails, scoop in the pond, explore the farm and investigate insects in the meadow.

Farming Fun

North Barn

The wonders of new life create joy as children hold fuzzy baby chicks or cuddle piglets, and ponies entertain as children gather eggs to calculate incubation and learn about technology through time in our antique farm tool museum.

Kids in the Kitchen

Van Vleck House

Local food choices are mixed with a heaping scoop of wholesome fun to encourage kids to grow up healthy, strong in mind and body.

Fleming Preserve Hike

Join Land Management Volunteer Dave Terry for a hike on our Fleming Preserve, which is the site of the original Flanders sap house.

Goat Yoga

Experienced yoga instructor, Sharon Poarch, will lead guests in this one-hour gentle class suitable for all levels, from beginners to advanced.

Marzahl Refuge Hike

This property has a spectacular, quintessential New England stream with multiple small waterfalls that winds its way through a pine forest.

Flanders Garden Club

The garden club will meet regularly to discuss garden projects, conduct adult and children’s garden programs, visit notable gardens, and tend to the Flanders Van Vleck House & Studio Gardens.

Flanders Environmental Book Club

Join reading enthusiasts and book club leaders, Adele Falco and Ingrid Manning, in discussing reading that will focus on mostly non-fiction books about nature and the environment.

Flanders Trail Blazers 4-H Club

UCONN 4-H is a youth organization whose mission is engaging youth to reach their fullest potential with a motto “To Make the Best Better.”

Photography Club 2025

Our focus is outdoor nature photography “to foster understanding and appreciation of nature, art and the wonders of the natural world . . .”