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.

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)

UCRRA Recycling Outreach Team Angelina Brandt (pictured left) and Eva Barnett (pictured right) held a fascinating and inspiring workshop on how to compost in your own home. They brought vermiculture and bokashi buckets to show and explained how easy the process can be if you know the basics. Even seasoned composters learned some tips.

Here Angelina is showing a bucket of active Red Wiggler worms.

Here is a video of Eva is demonstrating one way to finish a "bokashi cake."

Click here for UCRRA's booklet on bokashi composting.

Click here for UCRRA's booklet on vermicomposting.

Stay tuned for another indoor composting workshop this fall!

Join Ernest Masaaba, educator and child advocate, who is visiting from Uganda. He will discuss the organization AOET Uganda. https://aoet.org/uganda-locations.php. Through this organization you can sponsor a child from kindergarten through university and provide nutrition and medical support to the child as well as to their caretakers.

See flyer here.

Join San Diego 2025 Western Ultimate Champion Deanna Abrams (and Director of Wayfinder) for a two day clinic for kids and kid's adults of all ages at Duzine Elementary gym.

See flyer here. Sign up here.

Sponsored by https://ultimateforall.com

January 6th and 13th from 5:30 to 7:00pm. (Duzine Elementary)

We ventured out to the Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College on a recent Friday morning. After, we stopped to have lunch at Pippinelli's Pizza Parlor. 

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Friday, October 13th at 10:00am.

Free wellness activities every Wednesday at Hasbrouck Park this summer!

Yoga, breathwork, and Dance Xross Fitness, brought to you by the Town of New Paltz Office of Community Wellness.

See flyer here or go to npthrivingtogether.org.

Wednesdays, from 10:00 to 11:00AM, July 9th through August 6th. (Hasbrouck Park. If raining, Redeemer Church.)

Wild Ones Mid-Hudson Valley is having its first fall native plant sale & bake sale!

These small plants, called landscape plugs, are less expensive than container plants and an excellent way to keep costs down while trying out some new plants. Plastic containers for the plants will be available, but you may wish to bring your own plastic pots as well. Plants are $4 each. Check or cash preferred, credit and Paypal available.

Species list: Anise scented goldenrod (Solidago odora), Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum), Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), Culvers root (Veronicastrum virginicum), Garden phlox (Phlox paniculata 'Jeana’), Golden alexanders (Zizia aurea), Golden ragwort (Packera aurea), Mountain mint (Pycnanthemum muticum), New York Aster (Aster novi-belgii), Orange coneflower (Rudbeckia fulgida var. fulgida), Sundrops (Oenothera fruticosa), White Wood Aster (Aster divaricatus). Proceeds to benefit Wild Ones Mid-Hudson Valley. If you have any questions, please contact wildonesmhv@gmail.com.

Saturday, September 13th, 12–2pm (Community Center)

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!

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).