Past HGCNY meetings 2002 to the present
If you were able to attend most of these programs, you'll have learned a lot!
| When | Where | What | Who |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday September 8 10:00 am - 12:00 noon |
Directions to Allens | NATIVE PLANT SALE fundraiser | For HGCNY friends and members only |
| Sunday July 22 at 2:30 pm |
Directions to Michelle's | Show Me, Help Me Garden tour | Dan Carroll, horticulturist |
| Saturday August 4 at 10:00 am |
Check for more information about location and to register | Special Event! We're touring a vegetable garden in recognition of the fact that producing food thousands of miles away contributes to global warming. By producing some of our food in the most local way we can - in our own yards - or by buying from local farmers or CSAs we can reduce our carbon footprint enormously. NOTE: There is a small fee for this tour, to be paid to Baltimore Woods |
Co-sponsored with Centers for Nature Education at Baltimore Woods |
| Saturday August 18 at 10:00 am |
Directions to Beth and Dave's | Show Me, Help Me Garden tour | Dan Carroll, horticulturist |
| When | Where | What | Who |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday December 28 | at the Allens | Our holiday social - a chance to relax and get to know each other better! | |
| Sunday November 26 | Liverpool Library | Our Annual Panel Discussion A popular program! Here's your chance to ask questions about habitat gardening - things you encountered during the past gardening season, or things you're wondering about as you plan next year's garden. | Dan Carroll - Horticulturist, owner of Great Lakes Horticulture Janet Allen - Habitat Steward for the National Wildlife Federation Michelle Welcher - homeowner who has been converting her suburban yard to a habitat garden Audience - our fellow habitat gardeners often have great answers based on their own habitat gardening experiences |
| Sunday October 22, 2006 | Vermicomposting Brenda Lotito, Author of the forthcoming book "The Dirt on Worm Farming" - Anyone who has a passion for gardening or maintaining a green lawn can help the environment through waste reduction and composting. Get the dirt on worm farming and find riches in black gold with local columnist and President of Upstate Worm Farms, Brenda Lotito. Brenda's book "The Dirt on Worm Farming" will be available for sale. | ||
| Sunday Sept 24, 2006 | Invasive Plants Series Part 2: On Beyond Barberry and Other Invasive Plants in the Landscape | Carol Bradford, P-S garden columnist | |
| Sunday August 27 | Show Me Help Me Tour - Dewitt area | Emphasis on the "Help Me" | |
| Sunday July 23 | Show Me Help Me Tour - Fulton | Emphasis on the "Show Me" | |
| Sunday June 18 at 2:00 pm | Westvale | We'll start our annual series of Show Me Help Me Tours of Wild Ones Gardens! | |
| Sunday March 26 at 2:00 pm | Solvay Library | Attracting Butterflies to the Habitat Garden | Jim D’Angelo of Sterling Nature Center |
| Sunday February 26, 2006 at 2:00 pm | Liverpool Library | Habitat Gardening Jeopardy | Unlike the TV show, there will be little fame or fortune associated with winning, but we’ll have a lot of fun and learn about plants and habitat gardening as we compete as teams. Also, Fran Lawlor of Cornell Cooperative Extension will give us a brief overview of the CommuniTrees Steward program, Syracuse Urban Forest Master Plan, The Urban and Community Forest program! |
| SATURDAY FEBRUARY 11 at 2pm! | Liverpool Library | SPECIAL EVENT! Co-Sponsored by Liverpool Library Gathering Moss | Robin Kimmerer, SUNY-ESF professor and award-winning author, will talk about the fascinating natural and cultural history of mosses. |
| Sunday January 28, 2006 | LeMoyne College New location!! | Back by popular demand! Habitat Gardening Jeopardy | We all had a great time playing this last year, so we'll do it again this year! Unlike the TV show, there will be little fame or fortune associated with winning, but we’ll have a lot of fun and learn about plants and habitat gardening. |
| When | Where | What | Who |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday November 27, 2005 at 2:00 pm | Liverpool Library | Your Questions Answered | A panel discussion with a professional landscaper, a National Wildlife Federation Habitat Steward, and a homeowner converting her suburban property to a habitat garden |
| Sunday October 23, 2005 at 2:00 pm | Liverpool Library | The Plight of the Unsightly | Andy Saunders, SUNY ESF professor, will discuss why we need to preserve and restore habitat in our home landscapes. |
| Sunday September 25, 2005 at 2:00 pm | Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park | Where the Wild Things Are | Kate Woodle, director of the zoo’s Habitat Garden, will lead a tour of this native plant habitat garden. |
| Saturday September 10, 2005 at 10:00 am | Cato | Show Me / Help Me Garden Tou | |
| Sunday August 28, 2005 at 2:00 pm | Liverpool " Fulton | Show Me / Help Me Garden Tour | Michelle's and to Dan's gardens |
| August 13 at 10:30 am | Jamesville | Show Me / Help Me Garden Tour | |
| Sunday July 24, 2005 at 2:00 pm | Westvale | Show Me / Help Me Garden Tour | |
| Saturday July 23, 2005 | Green Lakes State Park | Our first service project! | Here's a chance to create habitat outside our own backyards! We've scheduled a project with Green Lakes State Park to help them create habitat by eliminating a destructive invasive plant - black swallowwort, a plant native to Europe that kills the larvae of America's most popular butterfly - the Monarch. |
| Sunday June 26, 2005 at 2:00 pm | Tully | Show Me / Help Me Garden Tour | |
| Saturday June 11 at 10:00 am | E. Syracuse | Show Me / Help Me Garden Tour | |
| Sunday May 22 at 2:00 pm | DeWitt Public Library Community Room; Shoppingtown Mall | Lawns: Industrial or Freedom? | Janet Allen, Member of the Freedom Lawn Project in Central New York |
| SATURDAY May 14 | OUR FIRST ANNUAL NATIVE PLANT SALE AT THE REGIONAL MARKET! | ||
| Sunday April 24 2:00 pm | Toad Hollow Farm, 4505 Tanner Rd., Nedrow | Toad Hollow Compost Tour - Does compost this sound as exciting as watching paint dry? You'll be surprised to find how interesting this innovative large-scale composting facility is! | |
| Sun Mar 20, 2005 at 2:00 pm | Liverpool Library | Meet the Author! - We're honored to have Don Leopold with us. He will be introducing his brand-new book, Native Plants of the Northeast. We'll have copies of his book available and he'll be autographing them! | |
| Sun Feb 27, 2005 at 2:00 pm | Liverpool Library | John Rogers – Bluebirds and bluebird birdhouse construction. Just in time for the birds’ return. RESERVATIONS NEEDED IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A BIRDHOUSE (not needed if you just want to hear the program | |
| Sun Jan 23, 2005 at 2:00 | Liverpool Library | Name That Plant! - a game show format (Jeopardy and/or Concentration) featuring the recognition of native and invasive plants; associating plants with the three primary local plant communities. |
| When | Where | What | Who |
|---|---|---|---|
| WED Dec. 29; 7:00 pm | Mel's House | Amid the busy-ness of the holidays, a relaxing social event at an affordable restaurant. A great chance to look back on the last gardening year, look forward to the next … and get to know each other better! | |
| Sunday, Nov 28 | Liverpool Library | Taking pictures in you Habitat Garden - Also, Photo Sharing: Bring your favorite pictures of your habitat garden for sharing. Digital pictures can be displayed in a PowerPoint presentations and "regular" photos can be displayed on a picture board. Our favorites will be displayed on this website. | |
| Sunday Oct 24, 2004 2:00 pm | Baltimore Woods, Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus, NY | Guided tour of NatureScape, the natural landscaping using native plants at Center for Nature Education at Baltimore Woods. The tour will be led by Dan Reeder, the landscape architect who designed NatureScape. | |
| SATURDAY Sept 25, 2004 | Ithaca | FIELD TRIP to Cornell Plantations | Field trip to Cornell Plantations in Ithaca and Moosewood Restaurant |
| SATURDAY Sept 18, 2004 10:00 am | Estelle's house | Garden Tour featuring a stream with a reservoir rather than a pond Estelle has offered to show us her new stream. It's especially effective for birds and other small creatures. | |
| Sunday Aug 22, 2004 2:00 pm | Michelle's | Garden Tour: Two Suburban Habitat Gardens | Second garden - Bob's (get directions at Michelle's) |
| Sunday July 25, 2004 | Tour Grindstone Farm, an organic CSA; Picnic lunch and swimming! | ||
| June 27, 2004 | Show Me, Help Me Day at Maria's | ||
| May 23, 2004 | Liverpool Public Library | Propagating Plants | Joan Livingston, from Growing Wild in Canastota |
| Apr 25, 2004 | Liverpool Public Library | ||
| Mar 28, 2004 | Liverpool Public Library | First Steps to a Habitat Garden | Dan Carroll, Horticulturist and Owner of Great Lakes Horticulture |
| Feb. 22, 2004 | Liverpool Public Library | ||
| Jan. 25, 2004 | The Habitat Garden in Winter |
| When | Where | What | Who |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 28, 2003 | HOLIDAY BREAK! | ||
| Nov. 23, 2003 | Liverpool Public Library | Bogs | Tim Carroll, environmental biologist, and Dan Carroll, horticulturist and natural landscaper. Whether or not you were able to attend the bog tour in August, you'll find this slide show and presentation about the unique bog habitat interesting! |
| Oct. 26, 2003 | Center for Nature Education at Baltimore Woods | Invasive Plants | Patty Weisse, Executive Director of The Centers for Nature Education at Baltimore Woods Take a tour of Baltimore Woods and see firsthand the problems created by invasive plants! |
| Sept. 28, 2003 | TWO Habitat Gardens! Michelle's home in Clay: transitioning from typical suburban landscape to backyard habitat! THEN ON TO ...Dan's home in Fulton: the pro at home! | ||
| August 24, 2003 | The Bog - learn about the unique bog habitat at an Oswego bog | Tim Carroll (Dan's brother), Environmental biologist with special expertise in bogs Some moderate hiking 1/2 mile through wet conditions is to be expected. We won't be wading through waist deep water but expect spots of water to cover up the ankles. | |
| July 27, 2003 | Kim Adams, Entomologist at the Allens Backyard Wildlife Habitat with a special emphasis on INSECTS!! | ||
| June 22, 2003 | At Growing Wild Milestrip Rd. Canastota 13032 | Perennial and native plant garden center AND a tour of the windmill farm nearby! | Joan Livingston's |
| May 11 or May 18 PICK YOUR DATE! | At Centers for Nature Education at Baltimore Woods | The Mildred E. Faust Wildflower Garden display is one of the finest, if not the best, in New York State. A wheelchair-accessible trail weaves around trees and flowers for three-tenths of a mile. Volunteer naturalist, Audrey Loewer will lead the walk. NOTE: Members of the Centers for Nature Education at Baltimore Woods are free Non-members of Baltimore Woods - $2 donation | |
| April 27, 2003 | At Liverpool Library | Spring Gardening and some Botany! | Dan Carroll |
| March 23, 2003 | Ballantyne Gardens | The Ballantynes | |
| February 23, 2003 | Liverpool Library | will speak on organic gardening technique | Dick de Graff of Grindstone Farm |
| When | Where | What | Who |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 22, 2002 | Learning and Planning | ||
| November 24, 2002 | Beaver Lake Nature Center | Your Garden and Water Quality | Amy Samuels, Cooperative Extension agent |
| October 27, 2002 | Growing Wild Extra attraction: A Dramatic Reading by Michelle and Janet! | Joan Livingston, owner of Growing Wild, a perennial and native plants landscaping business | |
| October 13, 2002 | At the Welchers | Garden Tour! See an example of a suburban property that is being transformed into a habitat garden and natural landscape | |
| Sept. 22, 2002 | Beaver Lake | Providing for migrating birds | Greg Smith, Beaver Lake naturalist |
| August 25, 2002 | Program: Attracting Amphibians to Your Yard | ||
| Saturday August 4, 2002 | At Dan Carroll's home in Fulton | Garden Tour! Includes a pond and various theme gardens all in an urban/suburban setting | |
| Sunday July 28, 2002 | Beaver Lake Nature Center | Backyard Trees for Wildlife | Paul O'Connor, forester at Cooperative Extension |
| Saturday June 29, 2002 | At the Allens | Garden Tour! See one example of a certified Backyard Wildlife Habitat. | |
| Sunday June 23, 2002 | Beaver Lake | The Backyard Wildlife Habitat Slide program | Janet Allen, NWF Habitat Steward |
| Sunday May 26, 2002 | Beaver Lake | Some good habitat plants | Dan Carroll, Horticulturist, Great Lakes Horticulture |
| Sunday April 28, 2002 | Landscaping for Wildlife | Lisa Cantella, Landscape Designer | |
| Sunday March 24, 2002 | "Backyard Ecology - Landscaping and Nature" | Dan Carroll, Horticulturist, Great Lakes Horticulture |