March 2019 Volume 2, Issue 6
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IN THIS ISSUE
Visiting Gardens June Trip Details:
Rocky Dale Gardens
Founders Fund Proposals
Vote by March 15
Conservation Committee Study III:
Single Use Plastic Bags
Did you know....?
Botany Bill exciting news
Pollinator Summit Invitation
Lake Placid Conference Center
Zone III Flower Show Reminder:
The Ripple Effect
AGC Program Schedule
2019 dates updated
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Welcome to longer days and thoughts of spring. Congratulations to all of you who were smart and/or lucky enough to spend some time somewhere warm. I'd love to tell you that the ice has melted and the snow slowing down but a look out the window and at the weekend's weather report says, "Not!"
However, many members have been busy. There's exciting news from Lyn Flynn and Meredith Hanna who went to the NAL! They met with Congresswoman Elise Stefanik and, (I think) as a result of the meeting, she is co-sponsoring the new Botany Bill and Native Plant Materials Research, Restoration and Promotion Act (old H.R. 1054) which is being introduced by Representatives Quigley and Rooney.
The Conservation Committee has been busy hammering out details for the public meeting in July and has enjoyed the beginnings of a successful collaboration with the Lake Placid Garden club.
I am looking forward to spring for real and seeing you all again.
Corn
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2019 Founders Fund Proposals
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The Founders Fund Award, established in 1934, was created by Mrs. Harold L. Pratt to honor the Garden Club of America’s twelve founding clubs and the memory of GCA’s first president, Mrs. J. Willis Martin, who served from 1913 to 1920.
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As president, Corn will cast our vote for the project we prefer. There is more on the history of the Founders Fund annual competition in the
Winter Bulletin
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Please note that one of this year’s candidates is proposed by a Zone III club, the Garden Club of Orange and Dutchess Counties which is my mother’s, grandmother’s, and auntie’s club!
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Visiting Gardens - new event for June 26!
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The Visiting Garden Committee invites you
to join us on a visit to
Rocky Dale Gardens
Please join us on a trip across Lake Champlain to explore this unique venue, and browse their large selection of perennials, annuals, and shrubs. The nursery is situated in a sheltering notch, that enables growing alpines, as well as plants for warmer zones. The many unusual specimens and beautiful display gardens will inspire you. Also, a large selection of pottery and structural elements for the garden are available for purchase. Here is a description from online:
"Rocky Dale Gardens is a destination nursery and display garden, specializing in unique conifers, trees, shrubs, and perennials. The garden and nursery are situated in the schist outcrops and ledges that protrude from the base of South Mountain, one and a half miles north of Bristol village. Started in 1981, the gardens feature many mature conifers and woody plant specimens."
Details will follow, but we hope to carpool from the Essex ferry parking lot and enjoy lunch in Vermont after the morning garden visit.
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Conservation Committee Concentrated Study
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DO EDUCATION AND STORE TAKE-BACK PROGRAMS MINIMIZE WASTE GENERATED BY SINGLE-USE PLASTIC BAGS?
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Education efforts alone to promote current store take-back programs are not a practical solution. There is a low participation rate by the public as there is no incentive for consumers to reduce single-use plastic bag use.
And, sadly single-use plastic bags remain an essential option for low and fixed income populations as it provides free bags for transportation of purchases.
In 2009, NY passed a law requiring certain retailers to collect plastic bags for recycling. Compliance with the law is currently tracked through consumer complaints reported to the DEC. This system has many problems.
Thus, education and outreach have been shown to achieve only a 5% reduction in the use of single-use plastic bags.
IS THERE A DEMAND FOR RECYCLED SINGLE-USE PLASTIC BAGS?
Unlike dirty or contaminated plastic bags and film plastics, single-use plastic bags can be recycled and manufactured into new products. BUT,
they must be placed in separate proper plastic bag and film plastic collection containers for recycling. They must be clean, dry and uncontaminated bags.
Most recovered plastic bags and film plastics are LDPE and HDPE. Clean LDPE and HDPE can be made into new products without washing such as plastic lumber and other film and sheet products. Recycled bags are made into new bags.
Sadly, only 12% of post-consumer plastic bags and other film plastics are recovered for recycling each year in the United States.
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Exciting news about the Botany Bill and Native Plant Materials Research
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From left to right: Meredith Hannah, Congresswoman Elsie Stefanik, and Lyn Flynn
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We did it! Meredith and Lyn, our NAL delegates, deserve a big congratulations! Congresswoman Elsie Stefanik will be a co-sponsor of the new Botany Bill and Native Plant Materials Research, Restoration and Promotion Act (old H.R. 1054) These are being introduced by representatives Quigley and Rooney.
To read the full Botany Bill, click
here.
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Pollinator Summit Invitation
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LAKE PLACID CONFERENCE CENTER
APRIL 5, 2019
10 AM - 4 PM
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ADK, the Adirondack Mountain Club, is offering THE FIRST POLLINATOR SUMMIT on April 5, 2019 (10 am to 4 pm) at the Lake Placid Conference Center with the purpose of teaching home gardeners, landscapers, and groundskeepers how to conserve habitat for pollinator species.
The morning sessions will feature well-known keynote speakers talking on pollinator conservation followed by breakout sessions with participants. Lunch will be a locally pollinated one. The afternoon agenda includes learning about integrated pest management, meadow-scaping, and garden design.
If any members are interested, please contact Katherine Houseal for
additional information. Cost: $40.
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Zone III Flower Show - REMINDER
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The Rochester Garden Club and Allyn's Creek Garden Club's "Ripple Effect," GCA Zone III Flower Show schedule is posted on the
GCA Calendar
and
List of Upcoming Flower Shows
on the GCA website. Please open these links for more information.
Click
HERE
for the complete Ripple Effect Schedule.
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May 28, 2019
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Tuesday
Floral Design Workshop led by Renee Lewis and Grace Crary
Whallonsburg Grange, Essex, NY
9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Members will bring their own flowers and greens will be supplied
Brown bag lunch. Beverages and dessert supplied by Hospitality
June 18, 2019
Soil and Compost
Speaker: Bunny Goodwin
What types of SOIL are the best and how to correct deficiencies, fertilizers, and composting.
Nature Conservancy, Keene Valley, NY
9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Brown bag lunch. Beverages and dessert supplied by Hospitality
June 26, 2019
Visiting Gardens
Rocky Dale Nursery in Bristol, Vermont
Rain date – June 27
Details to be announced
July 10, 2019
Visiting Gardens
Domaine des Fougeres
Knowlton, Quebec
Rain date - July 11, 2019
For more information, contact
July 16, 2019
Plastics: The Trash That Won’t Go Away
Speaker: Judith Enck, former Regional EPA Administrator
Site: Lake Placid Conference Center, Lake Placid, NY
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Business Meeting - 2:00 PM
Presentation and breakout sessions - 3:15 pm – 5:30 pm
This meeting is being developed by the
AGC Conservation Committee and will be open to the public.
The Garden Club of Lake Placid has agreed to work with AGC to make this a joint program of the two clubs.
Representatives of Adirondack environmental organizations, local governments, and garden clubs will be invited along with members of the community.
August 15, 2018
Visiting Gardens
Sara Jane DeHoff
Gull Rock Camp
Lake Placid, NY
Details to be announced
August 20, 2019
Wild Flowers of the Khumbu
Speaker: Elizabeth Byers
Heaven Hill Farm, Lake Placid, NY
9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Catered lunch
September 17, 2019
Annual Meeting
Lyz Miskovsky’s Home
1010 Springfield Road, Wilmington, NY
9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Brown bag lunch. Beverages and dessert supplied by Hospitality
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Potluck
Corn Forrence's Home
3531 Lake Shore Road, Peru, NY
Time: 12 noon
Program: Lunch and Business meeting
Spouses, partners and guests invited
RSVP: To be announced.
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AGC eNews
eNews is a monthly publication
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of the Adirondack Garden Club
PO Box 72
Keene, NY 12942
Editor, Jennifer Lagor
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