2020-2021 Education Programs
All Programs are Tentative
Final details will be determined per COVID guidelines prior to each date
All Programs are Tentative
Final details will be determined per COVID guidelines prior to each date
Friday, September 18, 2020
Garden Horticulture Trip to O'Brien's Nursery, Grandy, CT. Featuring more than 1,600 hosta varieties. The gardens also include a wide variety of unusual Dwarf Conifers and over a hundred varieties of Japanese Maples. www.obrienhosta.com |
Wednesday, October 14, 2020; 10:00 am
Garden Horticulture Trip to Wickham Park, Manchester, CT. Wickham Park which contains 280 acres of gardens, open fields, woodlands, ponds, picnic areas and is the proud host of garden tours, fundraising walks and tree hours, among other events. www.wickhampark.org |
Wednesday, October 14; 7:00 pm
Program via Zoom:
Speaker: Page Dickey speaking about her new book "Uprooted", which will be available at the end of September. Zoom link registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkdOCppz8sE9ZXwY2aJG-T7iWOFhjFc2-E |
Monday, March 1, 2021
Speaker: Dr. Kirsten Traynor, will talk about her magazine "2 Million Blossoms", why bees are so spectacular and why pollinators rule! Listen to this amazing presentation as Traynor takes us from America to Europe where she divides her time being a “bee scientist”. This is a not to be missed special event with the public and co-sponsored with Essex Land Trust |