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      Award-Winning Local Author Lorraine Duvall Turns to Her Styles Brook Home in Her Latest Book

      September 17, 2023 By Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

      Where the Styles Brook Waters Flow: The Place I Call Home

      From its wilderness source to its meeting with the Ausable River, Styles Brook is scarcely five miles long, yet within its scenic, rugged watershed, award-winning author Lorraine Duvall has discovered a lifetime of stories that characterize the Adirondack condition. In Where the … [Read more...] about Award-Winning Local Author Lorraine Duvall Turns to Her Styles Brook Home in Her Latest Book

      Filed Under: Arts, Hyperlocal, Nature Tagged With: book, Lorraine Duvall, Styles Brook, Where the Styles Brook Waters Flow: The Place I Call Home

      Caterpillars Vouch for Success of Adirondack Garden Club Native Plant Project

      August 30, 2023 By Adirondack Garden Club Leave a Comment

      Monarch caterpillars feast on milkweed planted by the Adirondack Garden Club in the Families First native-plant garden in Elizabethtown. (Photo by Lyn Flynn.)

      The Adirondack Garden Club’s native plant garden at Families First on Water Street in Elizabethtown is in only its first year, but the number of Monarch caterpillars (and others) calling the garden plot home this season are a clear indication of the project’s success. “Because … [Read more...] about Caterpillars Vouch for Success of Adirondack Garden Club Native Plant Project

      Filed Under: Nature Tagged With: Adirondack Garden Club, caterpillar, Elizabethtown NY, milkweed, native plants, Pollinator Habitat

      Adirondack Garden Club Awarded Grant to Restore Native Plants

      July 17, 2023 By Adirondack Garden Club Leave a Comment

      With the help of a Partners for Plants grant from the Garden Club of America, the Adirondack Garden Club will restore native habitat at the Essex Quarry Nature Preserve. Here, members gather on the first day of the project. (Photo by Tim Rowland.)

      The Adirondack Garden Club (AGC) has been awarded a $3,000 Partners for Plants (P4P) grant from the Garden Club of America’s Civic Improvement Committee for 2023, followed by the opportunity for an additional $3,000 in 2024 and 2025. P4P grants facilitate hands-on projects … [Read more...] about Adirondack Garden Club Awarded Grant to Restore Native Plants

      Filed Under: Nature, News Tagged With: Adirondack Garden Club, Essex Quarry Nature Preserve, grant, invasive plants, Partners for Plants grant

      Adirondack Garden Club Presents “The Forest Beneath Our Feet” Lecture

      May 5, 2023 By Adirondack Garden Club Leave a Comment

      Justin Waskiewicz

      While many of us in the Adirondacks have long been familiar with forests and have a good working knowledge of forest ecosystems, there’s a growing interest in what we can’t see below the surface in the forest soil, notably a wide array of tree and plant roots, fungi, bacteria and … [Read more...] about Adirondack Garden Club Presents “The Forest Beneath Our Feet” Lecture

      Filed Under: Education, Events, Nature Tagged With: Adirondack Garden Club, ecology, forest ecosystems, Justin Waskiewicz

      April 2023 Proclaimed New York Native Plant Month

      April 8, 2023 By Adirondack Garden Club Leave a Comment

      The 23 Garden Club of America member clubs in the state of New York, of which the Adirondack Garden Club is a member, are pleased to announce the official designation of April 2023 as “New York Native Plant Month.” The signed proclamation by Governor Hochul will follow by April … [Read more...] about April 2023 Proclaimed New York Native Plant Month

      Filed Under: Nature, News Tagged With: New York Native Plant Month

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