Events

Join us for the LexCAN and the Town of Lexington's Sustainability Fair 2025!!This fair will be held at Lexington High School Commons 1 and 2, Worthen Road Entrance. The fair […]

Explore part of northeast Lexington on this 2.8 miles long route. We will go through Lower Vine Brook and Shaker Glen conservation lands along the way. Park near the signed […]

Walk a 2.2 miles loop around Arlington’s Great Meadow (which is entirely in Lexington!). We’ll alternate between parts of ACROSS Lexington Route C, the Minuteman bike path and established trails.  […]

Join us at Arlington Reservoir to look for early songbird migrants (Warbling Vireo, first orioles, and numerous colorful Yellow-rumped and Palm warblers likely) and lingering migrant ducks (Green-winged Teal likely […]

Join this walk to discover Across Lexington Route B. This 4.5 mile loop goes through residential streets, the bike path and several conservation areas including Franklin Park, Upper Vine Brook […]

With its uneven ground and listing slate headstones, the Old Burying Ground in Lexington looks like a patch of colonial-era New England frozen in time. The preservation of this site […]

Saturday May 10, 1:00-3:00pm AGM features meadows, wetlands, and woods within its borders. Over 675 trees, plants, insects, mammals and more have been documented on iNaturalist to date. We'll share […]

Sunday May 11, 7:30 - 9:00 am Lower Vine Brook can be a fantastic area to see warblers, beautiful small tropical birds that migrate north at this time of year. […]

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CACELLED - With 100 acres of former farmland, Willard’s Woods provides an opportunity to explore a variety of areas, including open areas, a former livestock pond and peaceful pine groves. After a brief review of the area’s history, we'll proceed slowly along the paths to get a sense of the trees, […]

* * * WALK CANCELLED * * * Once again, CLC is delighted to have Russ Cohen return for another walk to teach us about wild edible plants! Lexington is home to over 70 species of edible wild plants, both native and non-native, including plants considered to be weedy or invasive. Some are more nutritious […]

Sunday May 25; 12-2pm Come join the local Lexington goats for their daily pasture walk through the fields and woodlands at Chiesa Farm. Each season the land provides them with diverse plant life. The goats are very specific to what they need to eat depending on many factors. We will have two Lexington herds, totaling […]

The Lexington Native Plant Nursery is a volunteer initiative under the auspices of the Lexington Conservation Department and has been in existence since 2021. Its purpose is to grow plants for restoration of Lexington Conservation areas and other wild areas in town to diversify habitat, especially after the removal of invasive plant species. Proceeds from […]