Please join us for a hands-on workshop to learn the skills, techniques and importance of planting healthy riparian buffers along the streams in our Sawkill Watershed.In partnership with Mapping the Sawkill, the Permaculture Land Trust and Trees for Tribs, come help to plant 70 native trees and shrubs along the Tannery Brook. No experience necessary. All are welcome. All ages.

Facilitated by Andrew Faust of the Permaculture Land Trust, with 70 native plants provided by the Hudson Estuary Trees for Tributaries Program, we’ll learn how to create a healthy stream buffer using native trees, shrubs, and grasses.

This workshop traces the evolving relationship between people and the Sawkill Creek from Lenape fishing practices and floodplain agriculture, to European colonists harnessing its waters for the tanning industry, to its role in 20th-century municipal infrastructure. Participants will explore how these shifting uses reflect changing values, including the rise of tourism and its influence on environmental preservation in the region. The program will take place primarily at the Woodstock Historical Society, concluding with a short walk to Tannery Brook to connect these stories to the present-day landscape.

Join us for a celebration of the Ashokan Rail Trail with epic leaf peeping, music in the style of Appalachian old-time by Witch Butter, a group walk/ride, and autumnal pies from Little Rye Bakehouse.

Please park at Onteora High School and shuttle over to the trailhead. Bicyclists are encouraged to bike from other trailheads.

Woodstock Land Conservancy and the Woodstock Artist Association and Museum present Mapping the Sawkill Watershed Project. Focusing on an eight-mile-long riparian corridor of the Sawkill Creek, this series is a diverse ecological exploration and celebration of local waters. Led by artist Jennifer Zackin, this yearlong community initiative of focused relationship-building encompasses a series of participatory sensory workshops, walking tours, a Stream Stewards program, community mapping sessions, and an art exhibition, all taking place in 2026.