2023 Garden Day-Garden Solutions For A Green Planet

• Saturday, April 22, 2023, 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
• SUNY Ulster 491 Cottekill Road Stone Ridge NY
• $55, lunch is an additional $10

This one-day gardening extravaganza is a community educational program presented by the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County Master Gardener Program.

Everyone will gather in the Quimby Theater at 9am to begin the day with our Keynote Speaker, Carolyn Keogh, Director of Education & Public Programs at The Olana Partnership who will present “Olana: Place as Inspiration”, an informative talk about the vision of Frederick Church during the emergence of the 19^th century ecological movement.

Learn more about 19th century artist Frederic Church’s masterwork which will examine Church and his artist-designed house and landscape through the lenses of art, ecology, and place. Carolyn will discuss how deeply rooted Olana and Church’s practice is in the idea of “place as inspiration,” discussing Church’s engagements with the emerging field of ecology in the 19th century and exploring his four-decade-long development of Olana as a work of three dimensional landscape design.

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THE MARKETPLACE, with many local garden vendors, will be open during the lunch break. Please note, some vendors aren’t able to accept credit cards at Garden Day (cash or checks OK). Master Gardener volunteers will also be on hand to answer gardening questions, perform free soil tests and plant diagnosis. 

LUNCH

You may bring your own lunch or a box lunch can be pre-purchased for $10. Be sure to indicate your preference on the online registration form. Lunch is prepared by Stone Soup, Kingston, and contains one ½ wrap, a side salad and dessert. One-half wrap filling choices are: portobello, tomato, spinach and fresh mozzarella, or curried chicken salad, or turkey, cheddar cheese and cranberry chutney. All lunches come with a small green salad and cookie. We cannot accommodate special dietary needs. You must PRE-ORDER AND PREPAY with your online registration.