December 2018 Volume 2, Issue 3
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IN THIS ISSUE
January Meeting:
January 15, 2019
Call to Action
Did you know....?
Weed Wrangle
Wreath Workshop Recap
A fun day for all!
Test Your Knowledge
A quiz from our Conservation Committee
AGC Membership Updates
Up-to-date member information
Seeds to Share
A gift from the Shirley Meneice Conference
AGC Program Schedule
2019 dates now available
Featured Recipe
Spaghetti with Beef Mushroom Sauce
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Thoughts from Peru
The Adirondacks are already white with snow as the holiday season gets rolling! Don’t forget to drive carefully while shopping, caroling, visiting friends and family, etc.!
I’m sure you all received the sad email forwarded by Linda which informed us that Carol Madigan, a longtime member, and friend to many of us, passed away. We will miss her and will also donate in her memory to an appropriate cause - perhaps to GCA? This time of year often combines the past, present, and future in an emotional way.
I hope to see many of you at the rescheduled wreath workshop on Tuesday.
Finally, please read the “Call to Action” below and contact your senators and congressional representatives accordingly. As members of the Garden Club of America, we have the power to make the right things happen! Please urge your friends and family to follow our example.
There is a lot of information in this issue - be sure to scroll down to see all the announcements.
Don’t eat too many cookies!
Corn
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January 15 Meeting Announcement
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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
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Congress is set to vote on the
Land and Water Conservation Fund
(LWCF) and deferred parks maintenance during this lame duck session between now and Christmas. Now is the perfect time to send an email and/or make a phone call to your Senators and Representative for this Call to Action.
By following the
link,
you will find relevant information about the upcoming legislation on the Land and Water Conservation Fund and National Parks Maintenance Backlog. It is essential to send a message to our senators and representatives before Christmas. The GCA Call to Action page is very straightforward and has a clear sample message.
The GCA's new Call to Action is active on the NAL landing page under
Legislative Action and Latest News.
This Call to Action went to all members who signed up for direct mailing of Calls to Action. If you would like to sign up for direct delivery of all Calls to Action, go to "My Profile" and then under "Edit Publication Notifications" on the GCA website to change your preferences.
Ask your Senators and Representative to Support The Land and Water Conservation Fund & Address the National Parks’ Maintenance Backlog.
Click
HERE
for a Sample Message for your email or call to your Senator.
Click
HERE
for a Sample Message for your email or call to your Representative.
How to Contact your legislators:
To telephone any legislator, call the Capitol switchboard, 202-224-3121. Ask for your Senator’s or Representative’s office by name. An aide will take the message or send you to the legislator’s voice mail.
If you hear back from your Congressmen/women, inform
Katherine Houseal
as we would love to be able to track any movement or communication.
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We can make a difference by participating in Weed Wrangle!
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Weed Wrangle® is a one-day, citywide, volunteer effort to help rescue public parks and green spaces from invasive species through hands-on removal of especially harmful trees, vines and flowering plants. Supervised by experts in invasive weed management, Weed Wrangle®-volunteers learn, practice, and begin a habit of maintaining an area free of invasive plants and encourage replanting with natives in removal areas. By engaging neighbors and challenging them to take action in their own spaces, they hope to create a movement that will have the greatest impact on the invasive plant population.
For more information, follow these links:
Or go
to the
GCA website,
click on the
MEMBERS AREA
, and search for
Weed Wrangle
.
ALL MEMBERS: Please read up and let us know your thoughts and/or if you are interested in being on the Steering Committee to create our own
AGC Weed
Wrangle
as our club project.
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On Tuesday, December 4, after a week's postponement due to wintry weather, 17 ladies gathered at the Whallonsburg Grange to make Christmas wreaths, both for themselves and for Families First in Elizabethtown. With the sound of the Nutcracker and other carols playing in the background, everyone shared ornaments and glue guns to make beautiful creations.
Lois Barrett supplied all of us with delicious kale and sausage soup to warm us up on this chilly day and Flat Fairy made a surprise appearance!
Following our lunch, Delia Thompson and Corn Forrence delivered the wreaths to
Families First who will then distribute them to needy families within Essex County.
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Take this quick test to see how much you learned from the Conservation Committee's reports and work over the past year.
1.Identify the three invasive plants pictured above.
2.Choose the plants listed below that provide nectar for the monarch butterfly.
Cosmos
Eupatorium purpurea (Joe Pye Weed)
Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower)
Cleome (Spider Flowers)
3.Identify the plants listed below that are hosts for monarch butterflies.
Asclepias incarnata (Swamp milkweed)
Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly weed)
Lamiaceae (
Salvia)
Echinacea (
Purple Coneflower)
4.What are three benefits of native plants?
5.Name the three fossil fuels.
6.Explain the GREENHOUSE EFFECT.
7.What is the EPA and the DEC?
8. What is the meaning of anthropogenic?
9.What chemicals combine to produce acid rain in the Adirondacks?
10. How do trees help fight climate change?
Give a tree for Christmas, plant it in the spring, and help our environment.
Click
here
for answers to the quiz. If you got all the answers correct, you have been listening very carefully!
Happy Holidays from the
Conservation Committee!
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Below is a listing of the seeds which Airlie Lennon has to distribute from the Shirley Meneice conference. If more than one person chooses the same seeds, Airlie will divide them and send them each a little packet. Please email
Airlie
a list of your choices or call her with any questions at (914) 337-4094.
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Seed packets available from Shirley Meneice Conference
- Tree: Tetradium danielli, Bee tree, zone 4 -8
- Self-seeding annual: Chamaecrista fasciculate (Partridge pea )
- Annual: Helianthus (sunflower) 3 packets
- Annual: Rembrandt snapdragons
- Annual: Lacy phacelia
- Perennial: Rudbeckia hirta (Black-eyed susan)
- Perennial Hesperis matronalis (Sweet rocket) zones 3 -9
- Perennial: Cercis Canadensis (American Red Bud)
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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.
CONGRATULATIONS TO NEW MEMBERS:
Yun Arbour
Lynn Harrison
WITH SADNESS FOR THE LOSS OF PAST MEMBER:
Carol Madigan
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December 4 at 9:30 am
Wreath Workshop
Whallonsburg Grange, Essex
January 15, 2019
“
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
May 28, 2019
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*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
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
July 16, 2019
Plastics: The Trash That Won’t Go Away
Speaker: Judith Enck, former Regional EPA Administrator
Site: To be announced
Time: 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM (to be confirmed)
This meeting is being developed by the AGC Conservation Committee and will be open to the public. Representatives of Adirondack environmental organizations, local governments, and garden clubs will be invited along with members of the community.
More information to follow.
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
Details to be confirmed
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A quick and easy recipe that is delicious with a green salad and crispy french bread.
If you have a recipe that you would like to share, please send it
here.
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Spaghetti with Beef Mushroom Sauce
Ingredients
1 pound dry spaghetti
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 pound button mushrooms, thinly sliced
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 pound ground beef
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 14.5-ounce can diced tomatoes, undrained
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup (4 ounces) grated Parmesan
1/2 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves, roughly chopped
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PREPARATION
Cook the spaghetti according to the package directions.
Meanwhile, heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring occasionally, for 6 minutes. Add the garlic, beef, salt, and pepper. Cook until no trace of pink remains, about 5 minutes. Spoon off and discard any fat. Add the tomatoes and their juices and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and stir in the cream and 3/4 cup of the Parmesan. Simmer until the sauce has thickened slightly, about 3 minutes.
Drain the pasta and return it to pot. Add the sauce and toss. Divide among plates and sprinkle with the remaining Parmesan and the parsley.
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AGC eNews
eNews is a monthly publication
produced by the Communications/Website Committee
of the Adirondack Garden Club
PO Box 72
Keene, NY 12942
Editor, Jennifer Lagor
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