Previous Programs 2002 - 2005
(from most recent to earliest programs)
| 2006 Programs | |
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Location: Solvay Library Fee: Free |
Attracting Butterflies to the Habitat Garden Jim D’Angelo of Sterling Nature Center will talk about native plants butterflies like, as well as butterfly identification. |
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Location: Liverpool Library Fee: Free |
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! |
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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 11 at 2pm! Location: Liverpool Library Fee: Free Co-Sponsored by Liverpool Library |
SPECIAL EVENT! Gathering Moss Robin Kimmerer, SUNY-ESF professor and award-winning author, will talk about the fascinating natural and cultural history of mosses. |
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Sunday June 18 at 2:00 pm NOTE: 3rd NOT 4th Sunday Location: Westvale |
We'll start our annual series of Show Me Help Me Tours of Wild Ones Gardens! |
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WHEN: Through June or while plants last!
WHERE: Usually C Shed (sometimes D Shed) at the Regional Market on Park Street |
Native Plants for Sale at the Regional Market Look for Dan at the Great Lakes Horticulture booth |
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Sunday July 23 2:00 pm |
Show Me Help Me Tour - Fulton Emphasis on the "Show Me" |
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Sunday August 27 2:00 pm Please RSVP to stewardship @ twcny.rr.com (without the spaces) Free! |
Show Me Help Me Tour - Dewitt area Emphasis on the "Help Me" |
| 2005 Programs |
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Location & Time: TBA Fee: Munchies!! Cancelled due to illness. |
Holiday Get-together Amid the busy-ness of the holidays, a relaxing social event at a member’s home. A chance to look back on the last gardening year, look ahead to the new, and get to know each other better! |
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Location: Liverpool Library
Fee: Members-free SPECIAL! Your first 2 meetings are free! |
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 |
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Location: Liverpool Library (tentative) |
The Plight of the Unsightly Andy Saunders, SUNY ESF professor, will discuss why we need to preserve and restore habitat in our home landscapes. |
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Sunday September 25 at 2:00 pm Location: 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. |
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Saturday September 10 at 10:00 am Location: Cato Fee: free |
Show Me / Help Me Garden Tour |
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Sunday August 28 at 2:00 pm Location: Liverpool & Fulton Fee: free |
Show Me / Help Me Garden Tour Michelle's and to Dan's gardens We'll visit Michelle's at 2:00 and Dan's after that. |
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Saturday August 13 at 10:30 am Location: Jamesville |
Show Me / Help Me Garden Tour |
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Sunday July 24 at 2:00 pm Location: Westvale Fee: free |
Show Me / Help Me Garden Tour (Directions will be sent with RSVP acknowledgement) |
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Saturday
July 23
Meet
at 8:45 am at park office; Location: Green Lakes State Park
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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. |
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Sunday June 26 at 2:00 pm Location: Tully Fee: free |
Show Me / Help Me Garden Tour RSVP required (Directions will be sent with RSVP acknowledgement) |
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Saturday June 11 at 10:00 am Location: E. Syracuse Fee:
Members-free |
Show Me / Help Me Garden Tour RSVP required (Directions will be sent with RSVP acknowledgement) |
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Sunday May 22 at 2:00 pm (NOTE: Because of Memorial Day, this is the Third Sunday) Location: DeWitt Public Library Community Room; Shoppingtown Mall Fee: Free and open to the public
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Lawns: Industrial or Freedom?
Janet Allen, Member of the Freedom Lawn Project in Central New York |
SATURDAY May 14 7 am - 12 pm |
OUR FIRST ANNUAL NATIVE PLANT SALE AT THE REGIONAL MARKET! |
Sunday April 24 2:00 pm Location: Toad Hollow Farm, 4505 Tanner Rd., Nedrow Fee: Members-free; Non-members-$2 |
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!
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Sun Mar 20, 2005 at 2:00 pm NOTE: The third, not the fourth Sunday! Location: Liverpool Library, 310 Tulip St. Liverpool, 13088 Fee: Free – public encouraged to attend. |
SPECIAL EVENT!
Meet the Author! - We're honored to have Don Leopold |
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Sun Feb 27, 2005 at 2:00 pm Location: Liverpool Library, 310 Tulip St. Liverpool, 13088 Fee: Members-free; Non-members $2. Also $5 materials fee for anyone wanting to build a birdhouse. |
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). |
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Due to snowstorm Location: Liverpool Library, 310 Tulip St. Liverpool, 13088 Fee: Free to anyone |
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. |
| 2004 Programs |
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WED Dec. 29; 7:00 pm (NOTE: NOT our usual meeting time) Location:
Mel's House NOTE CHANGE |
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! |
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2:00 pm Location: Liverpool Library, 310 Tulip St. Liverpool, 13088 Fee:
Members-free |
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. Free to members/$2 non-members |
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Sunday Oct 24, 2004 2:00 pm Location: Baltimore Woods, Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus, NY Fee: Members-free; Non-members-$2 |
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. |
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SATURDAY (NOTE: Saturday, NOT our usual Sunday) 8:00 am to 4:00 pm Fee: Members-$15 Non-members-$20 |
FIELD TRIP to Cornell Plantations
LOCATION:
Ithaca Field trip to Cornell Plantations in Ithaca and Moosewood Restaurant |
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SATURDAY Sept 18, 2004 10:00 am Fee: Free Location: Estelle's house - the SU area. |
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. |
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Sunday Aug 22, 2004 2:00 pm Fee: Members-free Non-members-$2 Location: Michelle's |
Garden Tour: Two Suburban Habitat Gardens
First garden - Michelle's (Directions) Second garden - Bob's (get directions at Michelle's) |
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Sunday |
11:00: Tour Grindstone Farm, an organic CSA; Picnic lunch and swimming! |
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Sunday |
Show Me, Help Me Day at Maria's |
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Sunday |
Propagating Plants Joan Livingston, from Growing Wild in Canastota LOCATION: Liverpool Public Library |
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Sunday 2:00 pm |
LOCATION: Liverpool Public Library |
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Sunday 2:00 pm |
First Steps to a Habitat Garden Dan Carroll, Horticulturist and Owner of Great Lakes Horticulture LOCATION: Liverpool Public Library |
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Sunday |
LOCATION: Liverpool Public Library |
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Sunday |
The Habitat Garden in Winter |
| 2003 Programs | |
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Sunday |
HOLIDAY BREAK! |
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Sunday |
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! LOCATION: Liverpool Public Library |
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Sunday 2:00 p.m. |
Invasive
Plants at the Center for Nature Education at 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! |
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TWO Habitat Gardens! Michelle's home in Clay: transitioning from typical suburban landscape to backyard habitat! THEN ON
TO ... |
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Sunday |
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. |
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Sunday |
Kim Adams, Entomologist At the
Allens
Backyard Wildlife Habitat |
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Sunday |
Joan
Livingston's
At Growing Wild |
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Sunday
May 11 or |
At Centers for Nature Education at
Baltimore Woods he 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 |
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Sunday |
Dan
Carroll At Liverpool Library |
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Sunday |
The Ballantynes
At Ballantyne Gardens |
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Sunday |
At Liverpool Library |
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Sunday |
Ballantyne
Gardens |
| 2002 Programs | |
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Sunday December 22, 2002 |
Learning and Planning
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Sunday November 24, 2002 |
Program: Your Garden and Water Quality Amy Samuels, Cooperative Extension agent |
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Sunday October 27, 2002 |
Program: Growing Wild Extra attraction: A Dramatic Reading by Michelle and Janet!
Joan Livingston, owner of Growing Wild, |
Sunday October 13, 2002 |
Garden Tour! See an example of a suburban property that is being transformed into a habitat garden and natural landscape At the Welchers |
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Sunday Sept. 22, 2002 |
Program: Providing for migrating birds Greg Smith, Beaver Lake naturalist |
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Sunday August 25, 2002 |
Program: Attracting Amphibians to Your Yard |
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Saturday August 4, 2002 |
Garden Tour! Includes a pond and various theme gardens all in an urban/suburban setting At Dan Carroll's home in Fulton |
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Sunday July 28, 2002 |
Program: Backyard Trees for Wildlife Paul O'Connor, forester at Cooperative Extension |
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Saturday June 29, 2002 |
Garden Tour! See one example of a certified Backyard Wildlife Habitat. At the Allens |
Sunday June 23, 2002
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The Backyard Wildlife Habitat
Janet Allen |
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Sunday May 26, 2002
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Some good habitat plants
Dan Carroll, |
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Sunday April 28, 2002
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Landscaping for Wildlife
Lisa Cantella, |
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Sunday March 24, 2002 |
Program: "Backyard Ecology - Landscaping and Nature"
Dan Carroll, |