my summer and fall 2018 events

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FROM ‘MOTH NIGHT’ in the nearby state park, to garden Open Day with guest appearances by Lee Reich, and a September workshop on encouraging the wild in your garden, I hope there will be something to appeal to you in my summer and fall event offerings. Do come visit! Follow the links below for full details on each upcoming 2018 event:

Saturday July 28, Moth Night in Taconic State Park, Copake Falls. All ages will be amazed to see what happens after dark at blacklight “stations” set up along park trails for our 5th annual Moth Night. Tickets and details.
Saturday August 18, 2018, Garden Conservancy Open Day and Copake Falls Day. Plus plant sale by Broken Arrow Nursery. With guest speaker Lee Reich on making and maintaining productive fruit espaliers. Tickets and details.
Saturday September 15 (rain date Sunday the 16th): Find and Encourage the Wild in Your Garden, habitat-gardening workshops with Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program’s Claudia and Conrad Vispo (a fundraiser for Farmscape Ecology). Tickets and details.

rethinking the lawn, with dan wilder

THE LECTURE that he’s been giving for a number of years is not-so-subtly called “Kill Your Lawn.” Ecological horticulturist Dan Jaffe Wilder knows that starting over and creating an entire native habitat instead of a lawn isn’t for everyone. But Dan just wants to grab our attention and get us to start to make some changes at least in the way we care for the turfgrass we do want in our landscapes. And maybe give up a little square footage of it to some other kind of more diverse planting, too, like the wild strawberries (Fragaria virginiana, inset). Alternative, more eco-focused styles of lawn care, along with some lawn alternatives is what he and I talked about on the podcast. Dan is Director of Applied Ecology at Norcross Wildlife Foundation in Wales, Massachusetts, and its 8,000-acre sanctuary. He’s also co-author with Mark Richardson of the book “Native Plants for New England Gardens.”

my summer and fall 2018 events

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FROM THE WEEKLY PODCAST

rethinking the lawn, with dan wilder