HGCNY meetings and events
To see the wide variety of programs we've had over the years, see a list of our previous programs from 2002 to the present.
NOTE: Starting Sept. 2011, we're meeting at Liverpool Library |
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| Liverpool Library is our usual location, unless otherwise noted | DIRECTIONS to Liverpool Library |
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****** 2010-2011 PROGRAMS ****** |
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| Sunday Sept. 26, '10 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Wetland and Shoreline Restoration Efforts: Onondaga Lake Remediation Projects Joseph M. McMullen of Terrestrial Environmental Specialists, Inc. will discuss wetland and shoreline habitat restoration efforts for various Onondaga Lake Remediation Projects. He'll discuss the planning, including the selection of native species for planting, and results of the successfully completed wetland restoration effort at the LCP site, as well as future plans for restoration along the Onondaga Lake shoreline and Geddes Brook/Ninemile Creek areas. Input from the group on these proposed plans is welcome. |
| Sunday Oct. 31, '10 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Dan Carroll We're pleased to welcome back Dan Carroll, one of the co-founders of HGCNY. Dan, a professional natural landscaper, will offer practical tips for getting started with a beautiful natural landscape. Don't miss! |
| Monday Nov. 1 '10 10:00 am |
East Syracuse Library 4990 James St., E. Syracuse, NY | Habitat gardening for pollinators by Janet Allen This program is sponsored by the Syracuse Botany Club and is free and open to the public. |
| Sunday Nov. 28, '10 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Member Roundtable Join us for our annual member roundtable. Here's your chance to ask any question about habitat gardening, native plants, and natural landscaping. This informal group discussion always leads to unearthing all the expertise shared among our members. Come ask your questions and share your experiences. A wonderful way to finish your Thanksgiving weekend! |
| Sunday Jan. 2, '11 2:00 pm |
At the Mitchells | Annual holiday/planning get-together In keeping with the holiday season, our December meeting will combine a mission/vision planning meeting with some socializing. If you're interested in getting involved in planning our activities, events, and projects, come join us (and feel free to bring some goodies to share!) This and our other planning meetings are good ways to really get to know other HGCNYers. Please RSVP if you're planning to attend. |
| Sunday Jan. 30, '11 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Ellen Folts from Amanda's Garden Gardening with Native Perennials |
| Sunday Feb. 27, '11 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Andy Saunders: The Art of Nature Journaling: Growing Wise and Gardening Green Professor Saunders, an environmental educator from SUNY-ESF, will present "The Art of Nature Journaling: Growing Wise and Gardening Green," which will reveal some of the values and satisfactions of nature journaling. The program will examine some significant historical outcomes of keeping a nature journal and reveal a few of its better known practitioners. The program will include some practical suggestions for anyone unacquainted with nature journaling who would like to try their hand at the process. |
| Sunday Mar. 27, '11 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Mark Meisner, Ass’t Professor Topic: The Significance of Media Images of Nature
This presentation will discuss and illustrate some of the key ways that the natural world is portrayed through the media. These include Nature as a problem, Nature as a resource, and Nature as a victim or patient. The implications of these and other such representations of Nature will be discussed in relation to how Nature is perceived, valued and treated in North American culture. Dr. Meisner is Assistant Professor of Environmental Communication in the Department of Environmental Studies at (SUNY-ESF). He directs the Environmental Communication Network and edits Indications, the Environmental Communication and Culture blog at http://indications.wordpress.com/ |
| Sunday May 1, '11 2:00 pm NOTE:NOT our usual last Sunday, which was Easter |
Directions to Le Moyne | Dragonflies by Jim D’Angelo
Jim D'Angelo, Director of Sterling Nature Center returns to discuss another creature we can enjoy in our yards: dragonflies. |
| Sunday June 5, '11 2:00 pm |
Annual Field Trip Following the enthusiastic response to Joe McMullen's presentation in Sept. '10, we've accepted his invitation to tour the LCP wetlands (part of Honeywell's Onondaga Lake habitat restoration project). NOTE:Registration is closed. (Wild Ones members will be given priority. Become an official Wild Ones/HGCNY membertoday and be ready for the next special event! And since Wild Ones/HGCNY is a 501(c)3 education and advocacy organization, your membership is tax-deductible. |
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****** SUMMER 2010 TOURS ****** |
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| Sat. June 26, '10 at 10:00 am | Dave and Beth's house | SHOW ME, HELP ME TOUR: A new type of tour! This year you'll have an opportunity to see the same garden in early summer and late summer. One of the most interesting features of habitat gardens compared to conventional bedding plant-style gardens is that they change throughout the year. Mark your calendars to see this garden in June and August! |
| Mon. July 5, '10 at 10:00 am | The Allens' house | Habitat and Edible Garden Tour: A tour of Janet's habitat garden and John's edible garden. |
| Thurs. July 8, '10 at 6:30 pm | The Allens' house | Habitat and Edible Garden Tour: A tour of Janet's habitat garden and John's edible garden. |
| Wed. July 14, '10 at 6:30 pm | The Allens' house | Habitat and Edible Garden Tour: A tour of Janet's habitat garden and John's edible garden. |
| Sat. July 17, '10 at 9:00 am | Peter's house | SHOW ME, HELP ME TOUR: This habitat garden extends down to a lake. We're pleased to have as our commentator Dan Carroll, professional landscaper and co-founder of HGCNY. After refreshments, for those interested, we'll visit another nearby habitat, also with Dan's commentary. Please RSVP to Peter. |
| Wed. July 26, '10 at 6:30 pm | Liverpool Public Library | A CHEMICAL REACTION A FREE showing of this award-winning film that tells the true story of how citizens in one small town in Ontario ultimately led to the entire province of Ontario banning the aesthetic use of lawn pesticides. See the trailer. Refreshments. Open to the public. Don't miss it! |
| Wed. July 28, '10 at 6:30 pm | The Allens' house | Habitat and Edible Garden Tour: A tour of Janet's habitat garden and John's edible garden. |
| Sat. July 31, '10 at 9:00 am | The Allens' house | Habitat and Edible Garden Tour: A tour of Janet's habitat garden and John's edible garden. |
| Sun. Aug. 1, '10 at 3:00 pm | The Allens' house | Habitat and Edible Garden Tour: A tour of Janet's habitat garden and John's edible garden. |
| Wed. Aug. 4, '10 at 6:30 pm | DeWitt Public Library at Shoppingtown | Creating a Bird-Friendly Yard Do you enjoy watching birds in your yard? Learn some interesting facts about some of CNY's favorite backyard birds, such as the hummingbird, chickadee, and others. Learn how to enhance your yard so it appeals to even more birds, and how you can help conserve birds beyond your own yard. |
| Sat. Aug. 7, '10 at 9:00 am | The Allens' house | Habitat and Edible Garden Tour: A tour of Janet's habitat garden and John's edible garden. |
| Wed. Aug. 11, '10 at 7:00 pm | Liverpool Library | Greening Your Yard You can help create a healthy planet by using earth-friendly landscaping and gardening practices right in your own yard. Find out how to reduce the size of your lawn and care for the remaining lawn in an earth-friendly way. Learn about composting - both indoors and outside, about water conservation, and about many other ways you can truly green-up your yard and the planet. |
| Sat. Aug. 21, '10 at 9:00 am | Dave and Beth's house | SHOW ME, HELP ME TOUR: This is the late summer version of the garden we saw in June! Please RSVP to the Mitchells. In addition, we'll travel to Hope's garden a few blocks away to see her habitat garden. |
****** 2009-2010 PROGRAMS ****** |
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| Sunday Sept. 27, '09 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne NOTE: We are meeting in the Coyne Science Center Bldg in Room 227 this month only! Here are the detailed campus directions. |
Habitat Gardening for Life Janet Allen will discuss her evolution from an ornamental gardener to a habitat gardener and toward a gardener for life! Her talk will describe the basic principles of habitat gardening and includes many new photos from her garden - including "before" pictures. |
| Sunday Oct. 25, '09 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Seed Propagation A hands-on presentation about how to collect, clean and prepare seeds to grow new plants by Joan Livingston, owner of Growing Wild Perennials, near Canastota, NY. |
| Sunday Nov. 29, '09 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Annual Roundtable Here's your chance to ask questions and share your experiences with habitat gardening! |
| Sunday Dec. 27, '09 2:00 pm |
Directions to Dave and Beth's | Annual holiday/planning get-together In keeping with the holiday season, our December meeting will combine our quarterly planning meeting with some socializing. If you're interested in getting involved in planning our activities, events, and projects, come join us (and feel free to bring some goodies to share!) Please RSVP. |
| Sunday Jan. 31, '10 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Invasive Species of the Northeast by Dr. Jason Fridley Dr. Fridley will talk about invasive plants generally across the Eastern US and about why introduced plants from certain regions of the globe seem to be particularly invasive. He'll also describe research in his own SU lab that focuses on invasive shrubs in forests, asking specifically whether East Asian species are "pre-adapted" for life in our native forest ecosystems. CNY gardeners will recognize most of the plants he'll discuss! |
| Sunday Feb. 28, '10 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne and Special Activities Rm. | Build It and They Will Come: Gardening with Native Plants Presented by Kate Woodle, art director of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park. Kate has been the key person in creating the zoo's extensive habitat garden, which is a powerful example of providing for local wildlife. |
| Sunday Mar. 28, '10 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne and Special Activities Rm. | Going Nuts: The natural history of the black walnut tree Though relatively common in Central New York, the black walnut tree produces a nut with uncommonly good taste. D. Andrew Saunders, a professor at State College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, will present a program on the tree, “Going Nuts, Interpreting the Natural History of the Black Walnut. |
| Sunday Apr. 25, '10 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne and Special Activities Rm. | Life in a Forest Puddle Interpretive Naturalist Jim D’Angelo will explore the life of vernal pools. Vernal pools are small wetlands that temporarily fill with water providing essential habitat for a diverse group of wildlife including insects, frogs, salamanders, turtles and even a few snakes!!! We will explore these unique wetlands the wildlife that utilize them, why we should care and the threats that endanger them. |
| Saturday May 29, '10 8:45 - late afternoon |
Sapsucker Woods, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd., Ithaca Planstmen Nursery, 482 Peruville Rd. (Route 34B), Groton |
ANNUAL FIELD TRIP: Sapsucker Woods and Plantsmen - Ithaca |
****** SUMMER 2009 TOURS ****** |
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| Our regular season programs are informative, but one of the best ways to learn about habitat gardening is to see them! We offer a number of opportunities for this. First, you can attend our official tours - one at a home, one at the zoo's habitat garden, and one at a natural area (Clark Reservation State Park) that features both native and, unfortunately, invasive plants. Second, you can arrange with some of our HGCNYers to tour their gardens at a mutually agreeable time. Third, one of our HGCNYers will offer scheduled tour times throughout the summer. Come to as many of these tours as you'd like. Finally, if you'd like to hear presentations about habitat gardening, visit us at the State Fair on Friday, Aug. 28 and Saturday Aug. 29. Details below. | ||
| Sunday June 28 at 2:00 pm | Rosamond Gifford Zoo's Habitat Garden | The zoo's habitat garden is one of the largest in our area. Now well-established, it provides quality habitat for the local birds, butterflies, and other creatures. The director of the zoo's Habitat Garden, Kate Woodle, will be our guide. NOTE: The garden is at the entrance to the zoo, so you do not need to purchase a ticket (though it's a great opportunity to visit the zoo beforehand!) |
| Sunday July 26 at 1:00 pm *** NOTE TIME *** (Not our usual 2:00 pm starting time) |
Directions to the location | A Show Me Help Me Tour of Ronda's garden. This tour will be facilitated by Dan Carroll, an expert natural landscaper. Don't miss this tour as Dan points out the many accomplishments of this homeowner (the Show Me part) as well as tips for next steps (the Help Me part). Tour visitors are also welcome to make suggestions. Please RSVP to hg.cny /at/ verizon.net (using the @ sign) so we have a rough idea of how many will be attending. |
| Tentative dates: Tues Aug 25 or Wed Aug 26 at 5:00 | Clark Reservation State Park | Clark Reservation State Park is described as "a geologic wonder of the last ice age and a botanist's paradise." But this is more than a tour, it's also our summer pot-luck picnic. We had a great time last year and excellent food! After we eat, we'll have an opportunity to tour the native plant garden located at the picnic site, and then we'll hike the trail to spot both native and invasive plants at Clark. |
| Arrange with the homeowner | Directions provided when you contact the homeowner | We have three properties that will show habitat gardens in various stages of development and with a variety of looks. Email (composing the email addresses with the @ sign instead of /at/): Michelle in Clay at mwelcher/at/twcny.rr.com, Beth and Dave in Dewitt at fermit/at/twcny.rr.com, Hope in Dewitt at kuniholm/at/dreamscape.com. The Dewitt gardens are close enough that they could be visited together, but contact each homeowner for arrangements. |
| (Dates at right) | Directions to the Allens | Tour the Allens' habitat garden (and the edible garden, too, if you'd like). The garden changes throughout the summer - come more than once if you like. RSVPs appreciated! Times: Saturday dates are between 10:00 am and 11:30 am; week night dates are between 6:30 pm and 8:00 pm. Dates: JULY: Wed. 29 AUGUST: Thurs. 13, Mon. 17, Sat. 22 |
| August 28-29 throughout the day (specific times TBA) | Directions to the State Fair We'll be in the Horticulture Building |
We'll be doing presentations on habitat gardening, on monarch waystations, and on gardening for bees. Join us! |
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| Saturday Sept. 20, '08 8:30-9:45 Donate 10:00-noon Sale Mon 9/22 6:00- Leftovers |
Directions to plant sale (at the Allens) | Our Second Annual NATIVE Plant Sale Join us to get great native plants and support HGCNY at the same time! You can also donate your extra NATIVE plants. Please bring your plants to donate between 8:30 and 9:45 on the morning of the sale. We'll be holding a silent auction for a witch hazel donated by Larry Keassa of Maple Hill Nursery. We'll also be taking prepaid orders for White Oak Nursery shrubs and trees, to be delivered for pickup the following Saturday, Sept 27 also at 401 Parsons. |
| Sunday Sept. 28, '08 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Permaculture Basics This session will introduce a socially and ecologically conscious design system that seeks regenerative solutions to meet human and environmental needs. Originally popularized in Australia by farmers and gardeners, permaculture has become especially useful for small sustenance farmers around the world and increasing popular for the more affluent who seek just solutions to environmental degradation and their society's poverty. Permaculture's ethics, problem-solving attitudes, and design principles will be presented. We're pleased to bring Michael Burns to Syracuse from the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute to talk about this topic. |
| Sunday Oct. 26, '08 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Rain gardens and barrels Rain gardens and rain barrels are good for your own property, but also good for our county. You can help increase our green infrastructure - an important way we can avoid the need for another costly sewage treatment plant. Amy Samuels of Cornell Cooperative Extension is the local expert on this topic and has presented interesting programs to our group in the past. |
| Sunday Nov. 30, '08 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Habitat Gardening Jeopardy Join us in our fun (and educational) Jeopardy game, back by popular demand. Each of the two teams is a group effort, so anyone can play! |
| Sunday December 28, '08 3:00 pm |
In DeWitt | Winter Social / Planning Meeting In lieu of business meetings held at our monthly meetings, we invite all HGCNY participants to join us in our quarterly planning meetings. This year, we'll combine business with pleasure and plan our spring events at a holiday party! Please join us and bring some goodies to share! RSVP by email for directions. |
| Sunday Jan. 25, '09 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Native Graminoids What's a graminoid? It's simply a fancy name for grasses, sedges, and rushes. Find out more about this interesting and important group of plants that can really give your garden extra pizzazz! Our speaker will be Tony Eallonardo from SUNY-ESF. Tony presented a very well-received program in the past and has been featured in the Post-Standard for his work on restoring the Solvay waste beds. |
| Sunday Feb. 22, '09 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Unique Native Plants of Central New York We're pleased to again bring Dr Don Leopold to speak to our group. Dr. Leopold is a HGCNY favorite and the author of highly acclaimed book Native Plants of the Northeast. FInd out about the recently discovered Seaside Goldenrod and other plants native to our place! |
| Sunday Mar. 29, '09 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Absence of Provenance: Big Horticulture’s Alarming Impact on Native Plants by Dan Segal of The Plantsmen Learn how the goals and techniques of huge plant marketing firms directly oppose fundamental ecological values of native horticulture—and learn easy, uplifting ways to fight back! We’ll explore the links between propagation methods, genetic diversity, mass-production and mass-marketing, and the proliferation of the garden center at the same time as the cultivar takeover. |
| Saturday April 25, '09 10:00 am |
Baltimore Woods Nature Center | Annual Garlic Mustard Pull For a number of years, members of HGCNY have pulled garlic mustard at Baltimore Woods. We've actually made a dent in the area we've "adopted," and we hope to expand our range. While pulling plants isn't exciting in itself, it is easy to pull and it's a great opportunity for chatting with your fellow pullers in a beautiful environment. Let's make this our biggest year yet! |
| Sunday Apr. 26, '09 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | How to Grow Your Very Own Amphibians & Reptiles We're pleased to again bring Jim D'Angelo, Director of Sterling Nature Center, to speak to our group in our popular yearly series on providing for various creatures in our gardens. He will explore the snakes, turtles, frogs and salamanders of our area from a naturalist perspective. These sometimes creepy-critters are often an overlooked but vital part of our ecosystems. A few ideas on how to make your landscape more attractive to them will also be discussed. |
| Saturday May 23 '09 |
Our field trip this year is a guided tour of a unique natural area near Watertown, NY called Chaumont Barrens. Several of our speakers this past season referred to this alvar grassland (prairie) as an inspiring and beautiful example of a native plant community. During our tour, we should see the rare Prairie Smoke in bloom, as well as many other more familiar native plants such as blue phlox, bloodroot, yellow ladyslipper and white cedar, along with the other creatures that live in the community.
Chaumont Barrens is a Nature Conservancy property. Our guide will be Chris Lajewski, Land Steward with The Nature Conservancy. To read more about Chamont Barrens Preserve.... The tour is about 2 miles of walking. Bring water and your sturdy walking shoes; the trail is uneven in spots. We also plan to have lunch nearby afterwards, in the charming town of Sackets Harbor, on the shore of Lake Ontario. |
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| Sunday Sept 30, '07 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Caring for the soil in your Habitat Garden Debbie Brock from Cooperative Extension will talk about the foundation our gardens - its soil |
| Sunday Oct 28, '07 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Care of trees in our habitat garden - presented by Steve Harris of RPM Ecosystems Native Plant Nursery |
| Sunday Nov 25, '07 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Our Annual Panel Discussion: A chance to ask about anything in your habitat garden As always, we have an "official" panel, but as always, YOU, the audience, provides not only the questions, but also a lot of the answers! |
| December |
No Meeting | Enjoy the holidays ... and start the countdown to spring! |
| Sunday Jan 27, '08 2:00 pm |
NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION! Directions to LIVERPOOL LIBRARY | HGCNY Participates in the Focus the Nation national conversation about global warming. Liverpool Public Library is co-sponsoring this look at how growing and buying locally-produced food reduces "food miles" and thus global warming. We'll learn about the connection to global warming, about how we can use part of our land for growing vegetables and/or buying food locally. Our parent organization, recognizing the impact of global warming on native plants, has endorsed Focus the Nation and has formed a global warming committee. |
| Friday Feb 15, 08 |
Right in your own yard! | Project Budburst starts - the first official year of a new citizen science project that will help scientists study globl warming. Perfect for all Wild Ones! Learn how to participate... |
| Sunday Feb 24, '08 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Alternatives to Pesticides presented by Annette Hogan of NOFA Also, a short film Our Children at Risk. |
| Various times | (Not an HGNCY event) | Vegetable Gardening in Central New York - A group of Central New Yorkers meeting informally to share information, questions, answers about growing vegetables. Contact John Allen at john.allen1 /at/ verizon.net (please reformat in the usual way for email) for information about location, times etc. |
| Sunday Mar 30, '08 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Pollinators in our habitat gardens - Jim D'Angelo of Sterling Nature Center returns for his popular series on creatures in our habitat gardens |
| Sunday Apr 27, '08 2:00 pm |
Directions to Le Moyne | Beyond natives - Learning about cultivars, provenance, and more. Carol Bradford, Post-Standard gardening columnist |
| July 27, '08 at 2:00 pm |
Directions | Show Me, Help Me Tour of a local habitat garden. Beth Fry will be our expert commentator. |
| Wednesday August 20 7:00 pm (Not an HGCNY event) |
Directions to LIVERPOOL LIBRARY | The Buzz on Bees: Creating a Pollinator-friendly garden Janet Allen of HGCNY |
| Sunday Aug 24, '08 2:00 pm |
At the Zen Center 266 West Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse (Directions) |
Tour of the Rain Garden installed as a demonstration project a few years ago. Also, a short tour of the adjacent land along Onondaga Creekto explore the native as well as the non-native, invasive plants growing there. Our guide will be Catherine Landis, a SUNY ESF graduate student. |
| Tuesday Aug 26, '08 5:00 pm |
Clark Reservation State Park (Directions) |
Picnic Social and Tour of the Clark Reservation Native Plant Garden |
| FOR DIRECTIONS TO MEETINGS | FOR PREVIOUS MEETINGS 2002-present | |