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SESQUICENTENNIAL EVENTS CALENDAR

This is where you will find Canandaigua Botanical Society sponsored events for 2024.  Check back often to see the latest updates and links to past events.

March: Check out our SESQUICENTENNIAL DISPLAY in the lobby of Wood Library

Thursday, March 7, 2024, 7 PM at Wood Library: Canandaigua Botanical Society Presentation Laura Ouimette will share our history, recent events, and future plans.  This event is free and open to all.  Membership dues and sesquicentennial sponsorships will be accepted at this event.   

Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 7 PM at HWS: Gardening with Native Plants to Deter Invasive Species; Matt Gallo of Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (FLPRISM) 

Thursday, March 21, 10 AM at Wood Library:  Sesquicentennial Planning meeting.  All are welcome!

Saturday, March 23, 2024: Lesser Celandine Dig at Mertensia Park  11 AM - 1 PM.   We will return to Mertensia Park when the invasive lesser celandine is blooming BEFORE it has an opportunity to crowd out the bluebells due to bloom in early May along Mud Creek. Please come the entire time or just for the time your schedule allows. 

Saturday, March 30, 10 AM Spring Ephemeral Walk on Domine Trail, FishersWalk the Domine Trails with Bruce Gilman to see early spring wildflowers.  We will meet in the parking lot behind the fire hall in Fishers at 10 AM.  If you prefer, we will also carpool from the Sly Street parking lot (behind the Ontario County Court House) at 9:30 AM 

Monday, April 8, 3 PM: Solar Eclipse watch party at Sonnenberg PARK, Howell Street, Canandaigua.  We have 30 pairs of CE and ISO approved solar eclipse glasses to distribute. 

Saturday, April 13, 10 AM: Clark Gully walk, Naples, with Emily Debolt and Bruce Gilman.

Saturday, April 20, 10 AM: Wildflower Walk along Ontario Pathways in Orleans (park by railway water tower)

Thursday, April 25, 7 PM: Canandaigua Tree Advisory Board Presentation at Wood Library

Friday, April 26, 1 PM: National Arbor Day Tree planting 

Saturday, April 27, 2-4 PM: Invasive Walk with Bruce Gilman in Naples, NY

Wednesday, May 1, 10AM:  Breese Park in Henrietta with Carol & David Southby of BANC

Saturday, May 4, 10 AM: Plein Air at Mertensia Park

Thursday, May 9, 10 AM: Wesley Hill walk with Jason Gorman of FLLT

Saturday, May 11, Ontario County Master Gardeners Plant Sale

Saturday, May 18, Muddy Walk on Victor Monkey Trails with Dawn Carter

Thursday, May 30, 9AM - 4 PM Huckleberry Bog Hike 

Saturday, June 1, 10 AM - Ontario Pathways Ontario Arts Trail Walk to celebrate National Trails Day.

June 3-7, 2024: FLPRISM Invasive Species Awareness week

FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2024, 3-8PM: SESQUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION at ONANDA PARK, Gorham Lodge.  There will be adventures scheduled at 3 PM (explore Barnes Gully or attend a watershed presentation).  Gorham Lodge will be open at 4 with displays and gathering.  Wraps from The Talk of The Town will be served for a light dinner at 6pm.  At 7pm we will have Pam Tichenor and Kim Ferris present a brief review of our past, followed by Bruce Gilman's keynote and a look forward by Laura Ouimette.  Special treasures of a printed program and commemorative Sesquicentennial mugs will be available to all attendees.    

Monday, June 10, 10 AM: Canandaigua Lake House Planting tour with John Faerber

Saturday, June 22, 1 PM: Tour of White Oak Nursery with Jim Engel

Wednesday, July 17, 10AM: Grimes Glen walk with Anthony Rubarge 

Wednesday, July 24, 10 AM: Ganondagan summer walk with Charles Ippolito

Sunday, July 28, 2-4 PM: Casey Park, Ontario Center with Fred Haynes (wildflowers and geology)

Saturday, August 24, 10 AM: Deblase Open Space in Pittsford with BANC

Sunday, October 27: Fungi Walk with Fred Haynes

 

Events in the planning stages:

Herbarium and arboretum at FLCC with Bruce Gilman

Bentley Woods with Bruce Gilman

Wolf Gully in Naples with Bruce Gilman

Muller Field Station Paddle with Maura Sullivan (August or September)

Lagoon Park - interpretive signage 

Harriet Hollister Spencer State Recreation Area with Fred Haynes (Autumn)

Burroughs Audubon Nature Club

Ontario County Park Autumn Walk with Bruce Gilman and Fred Haynes

Canandaigua Vista Nature Preserve

Bare Hill Unique Area - Finger Lakes Land Trust

West Hill Preserve, Naples, Nature Conservancy 

Don't Get Ticked New York

 This is a free presentation given at Muller Field Station on Wednesday, November 15th at 6 PM.  

 Muller Field Station is at 6455 County Rd 36 Honeoye NY 14471

Deer and rodents and ticks oh my! Join us to learn more about the ticks in our area, their biology, identification and how to protect yourself while enjoying the great outdoors! Participants will receive a free Don’t get Ticked NY tick removal kit.

Register here: https://flcc.formstack.com/forms/mfsevents

Muller Field Station Open House

Muller Field Station Open House Oct. 21


Muller Field Station will host an open house on Saturday, Oct. 21, from 2 to 5 p.m.


Visitors can paddle the channels at the base of Honeoye Lake or enjoy a nature walk. Families with children are welcome to participate in activities including pumpkin painting and aquatic insect exploration.


Online registration is encouraged.

 

 

 


Great Pumpkin Walk!

 Ontario Pathways' Great Pumpkin Walk is back on this year!!!



NATIVE PLANT SALE, September 30, 2023

 NATIVE PLANT SALE - GENEVA, NY

The City of Geneva Green Committee, partnering with the Town of Geneva Sustainability Committee, and the Geneva High School Green Club, are sponsoring a Native Plant Sale on Saturday September 30th from 8 am to 1 pm at the Finger Lakes Visitor Center. The native plant nurseries will be available for consultation about planning your native plant gardens and will offer native perennials, shrubs and trees for sale. There will be information about the Lake Friendly Living campaign and an opportunity to learn about helping with the city gardens at the lakefront.
 
Native plants are crucial for supporting our native polinators and bird populations. With their deep roots, native perennials are able withstand droughts and they help filter and sequester water and carbon in the soil. On top of that, they are beautiful and an established native perennial garden needs little care; as natives, after all, they know how to live here.

CLOUD FOREST FARM

 Sunday, September 24, 2023 

Cloud Forest Farm 

Cloud Forest Farm – Perennials, fruit and nut trees, and berry bushes to grow your own perennial food forest!

You may know Ramana, who sells edible plants at Canandaigua Farmers' Market (Saturdays 9-12).

Cloud Forest Farm is a plant nursery located south of Canandaigua, NY.  They grow fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, and native perennials. Their plants are grown outdoors without pesticides, herbicides, or synthetic fertilizers. They have a variety of raspberry, blueberry, elderberry, cranberry, and strawberry cultivars selected for the Great Lakes Region. Hybrid hazelnuts and chestnuts as well. They also offer well-behaved non-natives such as Chicago hardy fig and honeyberry. Native perennials include cardinal flower, columbine, phlox, blue flag iris, beebalm, hyssop, and blue lobelia.  

We will be meeting at the Sly Street parking lot behind the Ontario County Courthouse at 12 noon and carpooling to Cloud Forest Farm in Middlesex where Ramana will give us a tour and answer questions and concerns.  Some plants will be available for purchase.  

Gracious thanks to Ramana for having us visit and tour Cloud Forest Farm on a misty afternoon.   

Cloud Forest Farm is a new adventure for Ramana hoping to bring edible trees and shrubs to people in the Finger Lakes region.  She shared her successes and challenges (broken wrist while she was establishing her business) and ideas for the future.

direct sow garden in front of lawn that was not mowed for two years
Ramana
more direct sow gardens
Aster that grew when lawn remained unmowed

Peppers for her personal use
cranberry
Ramana describes various plant in her nursery
Ramana will happily accept used pots for reuse.  They can be brought to the Canandaigua Market on Saturday mornings.
Here's more information if you'd like to purchase plants:

Cloud Forest Farm – Perennials, Fruit and nut trees, Berry bushes

PO Box 128,
Middlesex, NY 14507
Email: cloudforestfarmny@gmail.com
Cloudforestfarmny.square.site

Grow your own perennial food forest! Cloud Forest Farm is a plant nursery located south of Canandaigua, NY. We grow fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, and native perennials. Our plants are grown outdoors without pesticides, herbicides, or synthetic fertilizers. We have a variety of raspberry, blueberry, elderberry, cranberry, and strawberry cultivars selected for the Great Lakes Region. Hybrid hazelnuts and chestnuts as well. We also offer well-behaved non-natives such as Chicago hardy fig and honeyberry. Native perennials include cardinal flower, columbine, phlox, blue flag iris, beebalm, hyssop, and blue lobelia.

Ramana Callan

Instructor, AIP

Biology/Project Dragonfly

Miami Universit


A visit to the Canandaigua Vista Nature Preserve

 These are images from a walk around the Canandaigua Vista Nature Preserve on Monday morning, September 18, 2023.  Taking walks throughout the year can be great inspirations for what you might want to plant in your own property.  

Brown hooded owlet caterpillar

Mapleleaf viburnum

White pine sapling

white wood aster
buckthorn :(

shagbark hickory

Joe pie weed

forest is carpeted with Pennsylvania sedge

Culver's root past bloom

Bracken fern

blue stem goldenrod

Calico aster?
Red Osier dogwood with goldenrod and asters

New England Aster