January 2019 Volume 2, Issue 4
Photo: Bradley Jackson
IN THIS ISSUE

January 15 Meeting:
Please RSVP to Liz

Conservation Committee Study:
Single Use Plastic Bags

Did you know....?
Email Spam Alert

AGC at National Headquarters
Thank you Patty and Airlie!

Zone III Flower Show:
The Ripple Effect

AGC Membership Updates
Up-to-date member information

AGC Program Schedule
2019 dates updated

Featured Recipe
Mushroom Risotto
Thoughts from Peru

Happy New Year to you all! Days are getting longer - if not warmer! Our first get-together of 2019 is scheduled for Tuesday, January 15 at the Hand House where we will experience the horrors of plastic anew via an interesting film. Hope to see you there.  

Remember to save your treasures for our August Green Elephant sale at the Keene Valley Farmers' Market.  Believe it or not, we can't take anything living - we would need state licenses and inspections - but I am hoping for lots of art, jewelry (not from Cartier!), interesting household items, etc.  I will pick up anything you have to donate!

Warm regards,
Corn
January 15 Meeting - PLEASE RSVP today!
January 15, 2019
A Morning at the Movies:

Try going a day without plastic. In this touching and often flat-out-funny film, we follow "everyman" Jeb Berrier as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world. What starts as a film about plastic bags evolves into a wholesale investigation into plastic and its effect on our waterways, oceans, and even our own bodies. We see how our crazy for plastic world has finally caught up to us and what we can do about it. Today. Right now.

Please join us for our January meeting and viewing of this special movie. Discussion to follow the movie will focus on the problem of plastics in our environment and possible next steps.

9:30 AM: Coffee and pastry
10:00 AM: Meeting and Program

Hand House , Route 9N, Elizabethtown NY
9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Brown bag lunch. Soup and beverages supplied by Hospitality
RSVP by January 8 : email Liz Jaques or call 518-576-4233
Conservation Committee Concentrated Study for 2019: Single Use Plastic Bags
It Is time to expand our efforts to reduce the use of single-use plastic bags by consumers and keep as much plastic as possible off our land and out of our waters.
 
Seven Reasons to Investigate Reducing the Usage of Single-Use Plastic Bags:
 
1.       Bags are derived from coal, oil and natural gas...all fossil fuels. It has been cited that 12 million barrels of oil are required to meet the single-use plastic bag production demand.
2.      Bags are harmful to wildlife and marine habitats
3.      Bags are a detriment to health, communities and environment
4.      Bags create significant recycling and disposal issues.
5.      Bags are a source of avoidable excess packaging waste used for mere minutes.
6.      Bags are costly for municipalities and recycling centers in terms of time and the management of money (read taxpayer).  
7.      The average American household uses 1,500 single-use plastic bags each year for an average of 12 minutes
 
Mark your calendars,  the afternoon of  July 16th,   Lake Placid: Lecture by Judith Enck, environmental expert, former  EPA  Regional Administrator of Region 2 of the EPA and currently teaching a t  Bennington College. 
 
Look for our post next month with more information on single-use plastics. 
Did you know...?
YOU SHOULD NOT OPEN EMAILS THAT APPEAR SUSPICIOUS.
Many AGC members received an email allegedly from the Adirondack Garden Club but it was a spam email. Use common sense when emails like these come through and trust your instincts - do not open them as they often contain MALWARE and will infect your computer.
Short of cutting yourself off from the Internet, there’s no way to eliminate spam entirely. The best you can do is filter out most of it, and even that has some unfortunate consequences.

Your email client (the local program or cloud-based service you use to access and send email) almost certainly filters spam, moving suspicious messages to a separate folder. But it’s not perfect. Some spam tricks the filter and ends up in your inbox. And some legitimate messages, called false positives, end up in the spam folder.

PC World has suggestions HERE on how to stop spam from invading your email.
AGC at National Headquarters!
A note from Patty Paine
Airlie and I went to GCA headquarters on December 14 and found the lovely ornament, that Mo made in 2012, hanging on one of the three trees that were covered with original ornaments from all the other GCA Clubs. We felt very proud of her accomplishment on our Club's behalf.

Happy Holidays to all, Patty
Zone III Flower Show
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.
AGC Membership Updates
Each month, if there are Membership Updates, they will appear in this area of the newsletter. If you have any updates you would like to have published, please submit them HERE.
AGC Program Schedule
Click HERE for a printable version of the 2019 Program Schedule

January 15, 2019
A Morning at the Movies: Bag It: Is your life too plastic? (2010)
“ Try going a day without plastic. In this touching and often flat-out-funny film, we follow "everyman" Jeb Berrier as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world. What starts as a film about plastic bags evolves into a wholesale investigation into plastic and its effect on our waterways, oceans, and even our own bodies. We see how our crazy for plastic world has finally caught up to us and what we can do about it. Today. Right now.”
Hand House, Route 9N, Elizabethtown NY
9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Brown bag lunch. Soup and beverages supplied by Hospitality
RSVP: Liz Jaques

May 28, 2019 *
*note 4 th 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
RSVP: Lynne Perry

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 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 20, 2019
Wild Flowers of the Khumbu
Speaker: Elizabeth Byers
Heaven Hill Farm, Lake Placid NY
9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Catered lunch
RSVP: Lois Barrett

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
RSVP: Liz Jaques

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.
Featured Recipe
Please share your favorite recipe here for future newsletters!
Mushroom Risotto

Ingredients
  • 6 cups chicken broth, divided
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
  • 1 pound portobello mushrooms, thinly sliced
  • 1 pound white mushrooms, thinly sliced
  • 2 shallots, diced
  • 1 1/2 cups Arborio rice
  • 1/2 cup dry white wine
  • sea salt to taste
  • freshly ground black pepper to taste
  • 3 tablespoons finely chopped chives
  • 4 tablespoons butter
  • 1/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
PREPARATION 
  1. In a saucepan, warm the broth over low heat.
  2. Warm 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir in the mushrooms, and cook until soft, about 3 minutes. Remove mushrooms and their liquid, and set aside.
  3. Add 1 tablespoon olive oil to skillet, and stir in the shallots. Cook 1 minute. Add rice, stirring to coat with oil, about 2 minutes. When the rice has taken on a pale, golden color, pour in wine, stirring constantly until the wine is fully absorbed. Add 1/2 cup broth to the rice, and stir until the broth is absorbed. Continue adding broth 1/2 cup at a time, stirring continuously, until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is al dente, about 15 to 20 minutes.
  4. Remove from heat, and stir in mushrooms with their liquid, butter, chives, and parmesan. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
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