Tank will be hosting Lindy Hop dances on the 4th Fridays this summer!

From Tank:

Update: The Bridge Builders Camp teens came on Friday and transformed our little pollinator garden in front of our Community Center. Come visit and walk the lovely pathways!

Come join us for some community gardening hours with your neighbors!

At the Field of Dreams - Saturday, July 25, 10-11am - we will work on weeding the new little pollinator garden near the concession stand. It should be easy with all the rain we've had! We can work out which are the weeds and which are the natives together. Lots of purslane.

At the Community Center - Friday, July 31st, 9-12pm - we are so lucky to have teens from the Hudson Valley Bridge Builders joining us to help  weed, cut back, and mulch pathways. Our Pollinator Paradise is going to be transformed before our eyes!

Saturday, July 25 from 10-11am. (Field of Dreams, new pollinator garden near the concession stand)

Friday, July 31 from 9:00 to 12:00pm (Community Center Pollinator Paradise Garden)

This was a spontaneous event created the day before, and in the excitement, it somehow didn't make it onto this website, but did get posted on Instagram and our newsletter. More reason to sign up for our newsletter!

Special thank you to Assane and his students for generously giving up his Sunday classes to join us in watching and drumming. Congrats to all the Spain fans! It was so much fun!

Join us for a Salsa Night this Saturday at our Community Center! Beginners and seasoned dancers welcomed! Nina will teach a lesson to start off the evening, DJed music after. 

Saturday, July 18th from 7:00 to 10:00pm. (Community Center)

Free Qi Gong class, hosting by the New Paltz Office of Community Wellness and New Paltz Thriving Together.

Full brochure here.

You've been seeing the signs around town, the stickers and buttons in the library. It's a two-month showcase of New Paltz's rich history, culture, and people. Check out the listings, choose your events. Lots of them are at our Community Center. Thank you to all of the organizers! Fireworks on the 4th!

https://www.revolutionary-newpaltz.org

Installation Day was a wonderful community event! Some pictures! here, here, and here.

We had a lovely evening at the Summer Solstice Potluck and Talk. In attendance were representatives from the New Paltz Garden Club, Wild Ones, Gardens for Nutrition, and Little Logan's Veganic and Biocyclic Farm. Former supervisor Amanda Gotto, who helped launch this PCA grant project, and landscape designers Ashley Gammel and Marvin Warren were also present. 

In her talk, Gammel explained how the plants grown for this garden are endemic to our specific region. Some of them host endangered pollinators that need one specific plant to survive. This garden will not make a big impact to pollinators on its own, but will serve as a visual demonstration of the plants, so people will be inspired to plant them in their own gardens.

This garden, as well as other new PCA gardens in Ulster County, are paid for by a Monsanto settlement with New York State. 

• Summer Solstice Potluck and Talk at the Field of Dreams / Sunday, June 21st, 5-7pm

Celebrate the summer solstice and Father’s Day with an outdoor community potluck, and enjoy some education on the side! After enjoying great community food, and conversation, you can learn about the pollinator garden coming to this site from Ashley Gamell of PollinateHV, a project of Partners for Climate Action (PCA). The New Paltz garden is one of seven other public demonstration gardens coming to the Hudson Valley this season. Gamell will share plant highlights, pollinator insights, and design strategies from PollinateHV's work at the intersection of pollinator conservation and ecological landscape design. This free event is a collaboration between PollinateHV of Partners for Climate Action, the New Paltz Recreation Department, Wild Ones Mid-Hudson Valley and New Paltz Garden Club.

RSVP to Joanna at recreation@townofnewpaltzny.gov. Or register below.

• Community Volunteer Planting at the Field of Dreams / Thursday, June 25th,  5-7pm

Volunteer to help plant the new pollinator garden at New Paltz's Field of Dreams Park. Please bring a trowel or soil knife and garden gloves to planting day.

RSVP to Joanna at recreation@townofnewpaltzny.gov. Or register below.

Another great dance hosted by Tank! These dances have been drawing enthusiasts from around the region. Learn what it's all about at Tank's classes most Thursdays.

From Tank:

Lesson will be taught ELEF style (Everybody Leads Everybody Follows) and will feature a switch move. All levels encouraged. There is something for everyone. 

Dear Gays, reBOP-BOP-BOP right to the HOP LGBTQIA+ Welcome!

$10 NOTAFLOF (No one turned away for lack of funds.)

Thursday from 7:00 to 10:00pm (Community Center)

See full flyer here, and in Spanish here.

Lisa taught a fascinating class on how to prepare and consume dandelion stems, cattail shoots, red clover, sorrel, and pine needles. She may offer another class in the fall. Be sure to sign up for our newsletter to be notified. 

Join Lisa Morganstern-Perl of Cornell Cooperative Extension for a World of Wild Edibles Walk. 

See full flyer and registration QR here.

Saturday, May 23rd from 11:30 to 1:30pm (Community Center).