Our next Garden Share meeting will be on Wednesday, March 13th at the home of David and Joy Gross, 24 Wardwell Lane, Woodstock, NY. It will be a POTLUCK.
We have as our guest, Becky Fullam, co-owner with her husband, Joe, of Old Ford Farm in Gardiner, NY. Hopefully she will bring some of her products, including varieties of Sauerkraut that I love.Below is a bio and topic of discussion for the evening.
Please do your best to attend and support our local farmers.
Working Group - Garden Share
Promoting and supporting sustainable, local food production – meets monthly. Contact: Dennis Bressack at DBressack47@earthlink.net or 845 679-6582
Garden Share Meeting – Feb. 13, 2019
Our guest will be Kathy Puffer. She owns Hudson Valley Vertical Farmshttp://hvvf.net and is involved with a non-profit called Solar Citieshttps://solarcities.solutions dedicated to Global Biogas Education. “Bringing free fuel and nutrient dense fertilizer to people around the world”.
Kathy emailed me the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) Climate of Change Winter Conference Program, https://nofany-winterconference.squarespace.com/program/ at which she is giving a 1/2 day intensive on the subjects, 1. Introduction to Home Scale Biogas and 2. Homestead Success with Fertilizer from Biogas. The Conference is in Saratoga Springs at the Saratoga Hilton and City Center from Friday January 18th to Sunday January 20th, 2019. Her presentation is Sunday January 20th from 8-10:45 AM.
Please note that at the conference you can also see some of our favorite past speakers Andrew Faust from the Center of Bioregional Living, Megan Denver and Jorick Phillips of Hudson Valley Bee Supply, Steffen Schneider from Hawthorne Valley Farm and Ken Greene from Hudson Valley Seed Supply.
Garden Share Meeting – Jan. 9, 2019
Our January 9th meeting will be at Dan Levy’s home from 6-8 PM. It will be POTLUCK.
Our guest will be Eileen Banyra. She is the owner of Community Compost Company https://www.communitycompostco.com and Hudson Soil Company, http://www.hudsonsoil.com Eileen is the woman who Mary McNamara talked about at our November meeting. Eileen’s Company is the hauler for the Saugerties Composting Initiative.For further information about Eileen, her bio and businesses, please go to her websites.
Garden Share Meeting – Nov.’18
Exciting news. Starting November 1st, there will be a new composting program at the Saugerties Transfer Station and we have as our guest speaker the woman running the program, Mary McNamara.
Mary McNamara, is co-founder of Sawkill Watershed Alliance and Lower Esopus Watershed Partnership, and on board of directors in water related organizations, Hudson River Watershed Alliance, Esopus Creek Conservancy, and chair of advisory board of Riverkeeper. As a volunteer have leveraged the voice of water and waterways as an important part of community policy and planning. Currently, Town of Saugerties, Organic Recycling Coordinator.
For a decade ran a multi-faceted family business, Parnassus Square. An earlier career was involved with art editing and cataloguing, in Taipei, and New York City. Received a B.A. in Political Science and East Asian Studies, University of Colorado; additional courses at SUNY Ulster in Water Chemistry and Environmental Studies.
Grew up in Texas near the gulf coast, after returning from four years in Asia, moved to NY, where eventually moved to the Catskills and the Hudson Valley that have been a natural fit, and a wonderful place to raise a family.
In my conversation with Mary, she made 2 things clear.1.
Kudos to our own WOW organizer and facilitator, Jo Yanow Schwartz, for being the driver behind the community composting movement in our area.2. Whether it succeeds or not, will depend upon the community’s participation. Even if you compost in your own backyard, there is an opportunity to save items that you can’t compost like bones, pizza boxes, meat, food soiled paper and shells, and bring it to the Saugerties Transfer Station.
The meeting will be on Wednesday, 11/7/18, at Toni Wiedenbacher’s home from 6-8 PM. It is a POTLUCK.
Garden Share WG April 2018 meeting
We, as organic gardeners, are all aware of the importance of bees and that their existence is being challenged by many factors including modern agricultural methods. Our guest speakers, Chris and Lisa Layman from Fox Farm Apiary, are doing their best to meet that challenge and help to preserve and keep these miracle pollinators flourishing.
This is from Chris and Lisa “ we do have a slideshow to accompany our presentation and will bring a projector and screen to the meeting. All we require is access to an electrical outlet. As we discussed, we will have product available for purchase after the meeting.”
Their website is: https://www.foxfarmapiary.com Please check it out.
Garden Share WG March 2018 Meeting
The next Woodstock Transition Garden Share Meeting will be Wednesday March 14, 2018, 6-8 PM at the home of Dan Levy in, Woodstock, NY. It will be a POTLUCK.
Our guest speaker is Pamela Boyce Simms, who is known since the Woodstock NY Transition and the Garden Share Group were launched 5 years ago. She will share her extensive knowledge of the climate and energy issues that affect us all and we as a group strongly believe in.
Garden Share WG Feb 2018 Meeting
The next Woodstock Transition Garden Share Meeting will be Wednesday February 14, 2018, 6-8 PM at the home of Joan Apter, 29 Orchard Lane, Woodstock, NY. It will be a POTLUCK.
Our speaker will be Joan Apter, an Aromacologist, will talk about “Medicinal value of plant essential oils” She will speak of the medicinal value of some of the most popular garden herbs and share their essential oils.
Joan Apter has 24 years of training in the use and application of essential oils. She has advanced training in the medicinal applications of essential oils from Ege University in Izmir, Turkey and holds an international certificate of study from the Pacific Institute of Aromatherapy. Joan offers essential oil approaches to wellness, Young Living Essential oil products, consultations and classes throughout the tri-state area, and resides in Woodstock, N.Y.
Garden Share Meeting August 9th 6-8 PM with Maxanne Resnick of WLC
We are excited to have Maxanne Resnick, the Woodstock Land Conservancy’s Executive Director, to talk to us about the important work that the WLC does for us all. She will have a Powerpoint presentation called “Secret Gems of the Woodstock Land Conservancy”.
Below is Maxanne Resnick’s bio and brief on WLC’s work:
See our calendar for location and directions
Garden Share WG Meeting / Wed. May 10th 6-8 pm
The Garden Share Working Group’s next meeting is Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at Toni Wiedenbacher’s Home and Garden form 6-8PM. It will be a POTLUCK.
At the May Garden Share Meeting Toni and I will explore the spiritual resonance our gardens and outdoor spaces have for us, and how to honor and enhance this gift. With our commitment to mimicking nature’s stacked functions, we propose to explore this through: creating park-like open spaces that minimize lawn mowing;
Garden Share Working Group May Meeting
The Garden Share Working Group’s next meeting is Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at Toni Wiedenbacher’s Home and Garden form 6-8PM. It will be a POTLUCK.
Jill Emerson has been using her expertise working with Toni to convert her garden space into something really special. Below is the subject of the meeting from Jill.
“Only modern man would be so foolish as to make something that had only a single purpose – every element nature creates around us is rich with stacked functions. Perhaps this is one of many facets of our degraded relationship with Mother Earth, as single-function tools or spaces are inherently less sustainable. One of the single-minded approaches that we might hold toward our vegetable gardens is the idea of productivity being the sole virtue.
At the May Garden Share Meeting Toni and I will explore the spiritual resonance our gardens and outdoor spaces have for us, and how to honor and enhance this gift. With our commitment to mimicking nature’s stacked functions, we propose to explore this through: creating park-like open spaces that minimize lawn mowing; adding garden benches to encourage contemplation; creating beds that soak up and store water (mulched hugel kulture); the inclusion of edible native plantings outside of the fenced garden; plus the use of Feng Shui and dowsing in the landscape.”
Toni’s address is 297 Meads Mountain Road. From the village green you turn on to Rock City Road and go past the cemetery. Keep going until you cross Glasco Turnpike. The road now is now called Meads Mountain Road. Continue up the hill almost to the top where the K.T.D. Buddhist Monastery. Two blue flowered mailboxes on the left mark my driveway, which is shared with the Hausmans. As you turn into the driveway take a quick right to my house. My telephone number is 845-679-7281
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