Events

PERIHELION 2025 CELEBRATION Saturday, January 4

7 PM

As our home planet Earth orbits our Sun, we reach the nearest point on January 4.  Gather with other Earthlings to celebrate our place in this amazing unfolding story of the Universe. 

We are thrilled to welcome special guest speaker Michael Pierre Price!  As an artist, mathematician, physicist, and sacred pipe carrier, he explores multiple ways of knowing and interacting with seen and unseen realities.  He will share his gift of awakening deeper relationship with the rest of the natural world in his presentation “The Perihelion Perspective”. For more info about Michael, visit his website

This Perihelion event will be interactive, engaging and fun.  We will begin with “sweeping out” the obstacles to our planetary well-being and “sweeping in” our intentions for a flourishing new year. For this, we invite you to bring a broom to the zoom!  After Michael’s presentation and discussion, we will join our voices in the Perihelion Song, led by the Uh Ohs.

To register for this event, send an email to [email protected] and we will send you the zoom link.

ECO RESTORATION DAYS

Winter-Spring 2025 dates:

Saturday, January 18

Saturday, February 15

Saturday, March 15

1 to 3:30 PM 

Help restore health to the oak savanna at the Alden Sedge Meadow McHenry County Conservation District site. We will be cutting invasive trees and shrubs around the oaks and stacking brush piles,   It is a great opportunity to increase biodiversity in this rare ecosystem that provides habitat for a multitude of birds, insects and mammals.  A healthy oak savanna also provides storage and filtration of groundwater, carbon sequestration, and many other services.  It’s also good for our mental and physical health to be outside surrounded by natural beauty.

Please wear long pants and long sleeves, sturdy footwear, sunglasses or eye protection and bring a water bottle and work gloves if you have them.  We will have extra gloves, safety equipment and tools.  We will provide snack bars.

This site is not open to the public except for these restoration days. Parking is at 15820 IL Route 173. Look for the “Small Waters” sign. Please let us know if you intend to come by sending us an email at [email protected]

Small Waters Education
15820 Illinois Route 173
Harvard, IL 60033
[email protected]