Ongoing and Looking ahead....

• Ongoing - Cloverlea History Project fundraising campaign.  Thank you for your contributions to the Cloverlea History Project!  Join our membership and history team to participate in these efforts.

  • • Cemetery Preservation and work days at Claytor Nature Center to care for that space

    • Interpretive sign design and creation for historical points of interest

    • Volunteer days at Peaksville Place for trail building and Country Store restoration projects

• more planning in progress - if you have an idea for an event or program, want to collaborate, or share an experience, please reach out to us or join an upcoming Cloverlea Conversation!  Check back for more details on future programs:

  • • June Wellness in Nature - 6/24 at 6p, Sounds & Silence at Peaksville Place with Center for Earth-Based Healing

    • July Wellness in Nature - Date TBD, rain barrel workshop with Bedford Regional Water Authority

• Events/activities hosted by Claytor Nature Center; sharing the opportunities!  See the CNC website or email claytor@lynchburg.edu for more information.

Plans ahead: We continue to build our relationship with Claytor Nature Center and the new director Lindsay.  Our focus is establishing the membership as a friends-of group for the center, and to offer programmatic support for sustainability initiatives and the history project alongside community partners.   We will help and co-host annual events around important dates: Cloverlea Garden Party in May to celebrate Boyd & Ginny's birthdays, Claytor Day in October to celebrate the founding day of the Claytor Nature Center, and astronomy and nature programs near the solstices and equinoxes.  We encourage you to stay engaged with us, as we plan some organized efforts toward our mission.  Be sure to join the email list to get updates about our forthcoming membership opportunities, events, and more ways to get involved!

Tiered levels of participation and support offers something for all: We will be using a supported/supporting/sustaining model for our programming and tiers of membership and partnerships.  We want to offer options that remove cost as a barrier for participation in our program offerings, and we'll be able to do that through different levels of support and collaboration.  We also value the time and expertise that our community brings; we'll have volunteer, in-kind, and service opportunities as part of our membership and partnership tiers.