Saratoga Reads!
2025 Reading Season

Inspired by The Overstory, use your hands to do some craftwork and join librarian Kate Federiconi to create your very own paper hyacinths!

Through beautifully written essays, botanist and Citizen Potawatomi Nation member, Robin Wall Kimmerer explores the wonder of our natural world.

Join us for this all-ages poem-crafting drop-in event, where we wIll make ‘poem leaves’ to decorate our library Poet Trees!

Students in grades 7-12 are invited to join us in the Teen Room for some popcorn and a movie!

Related to natural preservation, but right in our hometown of Saratoga Springs! The Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation has been dedicated to preserving and enhancing the unique architectural, cultural, and landscaped heritage of this lovely city since 1977! Join us to learn all about its legacy thus far, after its 45th year!

Join the library’s monthly poetry reading group for a Saratoga READS! inspired readings with plants and trees as the focus!

Do you have an insatiably curious youth that always is asking questions and learning about the world around them? Related to our Saratoga READS! selection, bring your inquisitive youngster along so they can learn about different species of trees simply by looking at the bark!

One way to bring the wonders of nature closer to your civilized microcosm is to enjoy indoor houseplants, or homemade decorative scenes or crafts created with natural objects. Join librarian Kate as she imbues her knowledge to you on the art of creating a Mason Jar Terrarium.

Blending the idea of sustaining our beautiful forests and nature around us, join library Caitlin Sheldon through a journey of thinking more critically about the clothing and garments we wear, and normally don’t give a second thought about their overall affect on natural resources.

Books and Tea meets to discuss American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Birth of a Perfect Tree by Susan Freinkel.

Find that glint of wonder and spark of imagination as the Wilton Wildlife Preserve & Park Environmental Educator walks through different frog songs, chips, and noises to help audibly detect our outdoor forestry friends!

Congress Park is home to a visually diverse collection of tree species. Join nature photographer and meditation teacher, Susan Meyer, for a nature photography walk through Congress Park focused on trees. This is not a tree identification walk; it is an invitation to become fascinated and connected, visually, artistically and emotionally, with the trees throughout the park and to photograph them in a variety of ways.

As part of our 2022 Saratoga Reads! programming series, we are pleased to welcome Annie and the Hedonists in a musical performance of songs that are an ode to nature and an amazing planet.

It’s finally time! Let’s discuss the book that is the Saratoga READS! 2022 reading season choice.

We will paint a forest of white birches, outside on the patio (if the weather allows) with Saratoga Paint and Sip Studio!