Community Calendar

The first week of June, tiny Sandhill Crane fuzzballs, or colts, will be hatching. “Fuzzball Season” continues until close to the end of June as the later nesting pairs’ eggs hatch. Please keep your dogs on leash and cats inside during this early and vulnerable time for crane colts and other baby wildlife.

Please contact Kachemak Crane Watch with information about your nesting pair and their newly hatched colts. This important data helps us count the total number of colts in the area. KCW tracks nesting success and needs your observations.

Email reports to Kachemak Crane Watch at reports@cranewatch.org or call 907-235-6262. Include date of hatching, time, location, number of colts, mortalities, and your contact information so we can call for details. For more information contact: Nina Faust at 907-235-6262.

Trails Day is a one or two-day event where the Friends of Kachemak Bay State Parks and Alaska State Parks Rangers will lead groups of volunteers to repair and improve trails and facilities within Kachemak Bay State Park. This nationally recognized day is just one opportunity to help and serves as the main kickoff event for the volunteer trail work season here in Kachemak Bay.

https://www.friendsofkachemakbay.org/trails-day

If you want to participate in Trails Day we need your 2025 Volunteer Application by May 20th. We will continue to need volunteers throughout the summer, so whether or not you are available for Trails Day, we could use your help throughout the summer! Once we receive your application, you will be added to our contact list for future volunteer opportunities.

You will receive an email closer to Trails Day with the available projects to sign up for. In order to get onto this list, you will need to have your volunteer application submitted by May 20, 2025.

The first week of June, tiny Sandhill Crane fuzzballs, or colts, will be hatching. “Fuzzball Season” continues until close to the end of June as the later nesting pairs’ eggs hatch. Please keep your dogs on leash and cats inside during this early and vulnerable time for crane colts and other baby wildlife.

Please contact Kachemak Crane Watch with information about your nesting pair and their newly hatched colts. This important data helps us count the total number of colts in the area. KCW tracks nesting success and needs your observations.

Email reports to Kachemak Crane Watch at reports@cranewatch.org or call 907-235-6262. Include date of hatching, time, location, number of colts, mortalities, and your contact information so we can call for details. For more information contact: Nina Faust at 907-235-6262.

Want to have some fun in the woods?
Help us fix up stretches of the Homer area's favorite trail for National Trails Day - easy light work adding new mulch to the trail surface.
Cookies and beverages provided.
For details and to volunteer contact Sandy:

homertrailsalliance@gmail.com
(907) 399-7678

Cohosted by Homer Trails Alliance and the Homer Soil & Water Conservation District.

The first week of June, tiny Sandhill Crane fuzzballs, or colts, will be hatching. “Fuzzball Season” continues until close to the end of June as the later nesting pairs’ eggs hatch. Please keep your dogs on leash and cats inside during this early and vulnerable time for crane colts and other baby wildlife.

Please contact Kachemak Crane Watch with information about your nesting pair and their newly hatched colts. This important data helps us count the total number of colts in the area. KCW tracks nesting success and needs your observations.

Email reports to Kachemak Crane Watch at reports@cranewatch.org or call 907-235-6262. Include date of hatching, time, location, number of colts, mortalities, and your contact information so we can call for details. For more information contact: Nina Faust at 907-235-6262.

Homer, Alaska - Encaustic painter Antoinette Walker and ceramist Carla Potter exhibit at Bunnell Street Arts Center from June 5 - July 2, 2025. The exhibit opening is First Friday, June 6, 5-7pm with artist talks (and in-person ASL accessibility) at 6pm.

Antoinette Walker - Artist statement:

“My creativity and life stories are expressed with coastal marine themes that capture the wild beauty of my home, Alaska. Encaustic is my material of choice – a blend of beeswax, damar crystals and pigment – often using charts, scraps of paper and found objects that are embedded in the wax medium. I draw upon first-hand experiences of fishing, its dangers and excitement. Eroding river banks, weathered canneries, set net sites, surfaces beaten by heavy winds and torrential seas and rustic landscapes tell a compelling story. With every year there are subtle changes and inspirations for a fresh perspective. I’m drawn to these surfaces with textural layers that disclose a story. Using encaustic, painting, scraping, and scratching, I seek to reveal pieces that speak of the past and present. For me, inspiration is often a mystery. In painting, one thing inspires while another fades away. As in the landscape, changes are absorbed and reconfigured.”

Carla Potter - Artist Statement

“Every time I pick up a limpet shell I marvel at its compact form with its subtle shifting curves and endless variety of striations and ribs. Their color, pattern and textures layered in an inimitable way that strains my greedy eyes. I love to pinch them out of clay and this activity brings me great pleasure. The barnacle on the other hand populates surfaces with a multitude of jagged and clustered forms. Duplex, quadraplex, high rise insanity their variation of sizes clustered together suggest family or village. These toothy forms offer me the opportunity to recklessly claw and scrape the clay surface into a satisfying jumble of planes.”

THE SCIENCE & SPIRIT OF THE FOREST
$20 per adult/$15 members of the Pratt
June 9th from 11:30am to 12:30pm
A one-hour walk through the Pratt trails that weaves the ‘who’ and the ‘what’ of the natural world. How do both science and spirit help us understand and appreciate nature? Take a walk with guides Elizabeth Pileckas (Cosmic Hamlet Hikes) and one of our staff naturalists in an exploration of both the sense of spirit and the botanist’s knowing of this local forest. We will combine expert local area knowledge with mindful walking, poetry and play.

The first week of June, tiny Sandhill Crane fuzzballs, or colts, will be hatching. “Fuzzball Season” continues until close to the end of June as the later nesting pairs’ eggs hatch. Please keep your dogs on leash and cats inside during this early and vulnerable time for crane colts and other baby wildlife.

Please contact Kachemak Crane Watch with information about your nesting pair and their newly hatched colts. This important data helps us count the total number of colts in the area. KCW tracks nesting success and needs your observations.

Email reports to Kachemak Crane Watch at reports@cranewatch.org or call 907-235-6262. Include date of hatching, time, location, number of colts, mortalities, and your contact information so we can call for details. For more information contact: Nina Faust at 907-235-6262.

Storytime at the PRATT in June: Family

This month there will have select Storytime days that are in collaboration with Homer Pride and in celebration of Juneteenth.

Tuesday, June 03 | 10:30am | no cost | age 3-10
Tuesday, June 10 | 10:30am | no cost | age 3-10
Tuesday, June 17 | 10:30am | no cost | age 3-10
Tuesday, June 24 | 10:30am | no cost | age 3-10

Storytime is a weekly event! Join us to read a story with a Pratt Museum Staff member, tour the galleries, and participate in an activity or craft.

See the poster to see which books will be read each week.

CONTACT Maghan Monnig, Curator of Education & Public Programs, tel (907) 435-3334, education@prattmuseum.org

Storytime at the PRATT in June: Family

This month there will have select Storytime days that are in collaboration with Homer Pride and in celebration of Juneteenth.

Tuesday, June 03 | 10:30am | no cost | age 3-10
Tuesday, June 10 | 10:30am | no cost | age 3-10
Tuesday, June 17 | 10:30am | no cost | age 3-10
Tuesday, June 24 | 10:30am | no cost | age 3-10

Storytime is a weekly event! Join us to read a story with a Pratt Museum Staff member, tour the galleries, and participate in an activity or craft.

See the poster to see which books will be read each week.

CONTACT Maghan Monnig, Curator of Education & Public Programs, tel (907) 435-3334, education@prattmuseum.org