The Waterfall Center

Dear friends and neighbors, July has settled gently over the Schoharie watershed. The hayfields are filling their second growth. Swallows skim low across the creek at dusk. Milkweed has bloomed, drawing monarchs and bees into their annual work. Up in the mountains, cold springs gather and begin their journey north, becoming the Schoharie Creek as they weave through forests, farms, villages, and floodplains before joining the Mohawk River, and eventually the Hudson, on their way to New York...

Dear friends and neighbors, As summer begins to gather itself around us, the landscape seems to exhale, and the fields are stretching into their season of abundance. Gardens are starting to fill out. The first harvests, both cultivated and foraged, are beginning to arrive at kitchen tables. Nearly every harvest begins with the quiet work of our local pollinators. Their presence reminds us that abundance is never an individual achievement. Food does not appear because of a single person's...

Dear friends, In the Schoharie Valley bioregion, this part of Spring feels less like a beginning and more like a deep breath held in common, a season that gathers people back into relation, with the land and with each other. Green has begun to settle across the hillsides, the creeks carry a steady, bright movement, and the days stretch open with a quiet generosity. There is so much to notice. The layering of growth, the return of familiar sounds, the way the landscape holds both change...