Meet Sally Shore, a full-time fiber artist, and learn to make bangle bracelets with novelty yarns. Students will leave class with one or more bangles ready to decorate any wrist.
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Upcoming Workshops
The Benefits of Eco-Therapy
12:00 - 1:00 PMDiscover the benefits of eco-therapy with a discussion led by certified forest therapy guide, Linda Lombardo of Wild Heart Nature Connection.
The Enchanted Earth
10:30 - 11:30 AMJoin local author and speaker Maureen Calamia for a discussion andsigning of her recently released book titled:“The Enchanted Earth: Embracing the Power of Nature to Discover theWild in You.”
Name Forest
Presented by Carol IslesCrack a secret code and take home your name written with trees
Bring Home a Sapling
Donated by Bartlett Tree ExpertsChoose between Scrub White Oak, Hackberry, or Red Maple
Meet and Greet
Cody Dix and K.T. Williamson
BCA Education TeamMeet the team and learn about our upcoming Educational Program
1:15 PM | Improving Coastal Resilience for Birds and People
Coastal ecosystems provide critical breeding, feeding, and resting habitat for a variety of birds and other species. These habitats also protect communities from storm surge and improve water quality. Despite their importance, humans have altered and degraded our coastlines for decades, impacting ecosystem function and threatening community safety. Currently, coastal habitats face even greater threats from the impacts of sea level rise. Implementing habitat restoration and living shoreline projects can restore ecosystem function and improve coastal resiliency. This presentation will highlight the value of our coastal habitat and provide examples of how to increase coastal resilience along our shorelines.
8:45 AM | Designing for the Coast: New Strategies for Salt Marsh Habitat Restoration
Methods for restoring salt marshes on the east coast of the US have necessarily focused on planting the dominant ecosystem engineer, Smooth cordgrass (Sporobolus alterniflorus). While this approach has proven mostly successful, recent advances in our understanding of intra and interspecific facilitation within and between dominant marsh species, including plants and bivalves, have hinted at new opportunities to refine our approach. This presentation will explore various innovative planting methods being tested including the incorporation of hatchery reared mussels to enhance marsh grass plantings. Attendees will gain insight into these new approaches that promise to revolutionize coastal habitat restoration.
2:45 PM | A Coastal Case Study: Walking Tour at Bayard Cutting Arboretum – OUTDOOR ACTIVITY
Bayard Cutting Arboretum spans over one and a half miles of coastline along the Connetquot River. Rising tides and frequent flooding have been ongoing problems for the Arboretum over the last ten years. This presentation will be conducted as an educational walking tour (.5 mile), focusing on the critical issues impacting the coastline today.
11:15 AM | Native Plants for Living Shorelines
Planting on shorelines and in coastal gardens presents unique challenges. Native coastal plants are adapted to the combination stresses of salt, sun, wind, flooding, and drought, while protecting shorelines from erosion and offering habitat to wildlife. Walk through a selection of native shoreline plants, from beach plum to Spartina, to help pick the right plant for this particular and spectacular ecosystem.
9:45 AM | Salt in the Soil: Challenges and Solutions for Tree Health
Salt stress is an increasingly common challenge for trees in urban and roadside environments throughout the US, driven by de-icing practices, irrigation with saline water, and soil contamination. Elevated salt levels disrupt water uptake, impair physiological processes, and lead to decline or mortality in sensitive species. This presentation will explore factors contributing to salt tolerance in trees. These factors provide a framework for future tree selection aimed at resilience to extreme salt conditions. Attendees will gain actionable insights to mitigate salt damage and promote tree resilience in landscapes under challenging salinity conditions.
3:00 P | Embracing Change & Wildness for Healthy Landscapes
We are often tasked with building landscapes that appear mature upon installation, changing minimally: a “perpetually picture-perfect” manicured aesthetic. However, the healthiest landscapes see a lot of evolution! Resilient and diverse plant communities start small, develop through ecological succession, and see dramatic transformations over time. We can design our landscapes and gardens as dynamic, changing plant communities. Utilizing native plants’ natural life spans and life cycles can reduce maintenance, undermine invasives, and maximize seasonal interest. By modeling our landscapes on dynamic natural systems, we can better plan their lush futures, and enjoy the wonder of their evolution along the way.
1:30 P | Altered Sites, Adjusted Plant Lists
Infrastructure, budgets, and nursery availability all guide designers as they look to reach their project goals. With the added volatility of climate and frequency of storms designers must use all the tools at their disposal to achieve sites that are beautiful and successful. Sometimes project sites require wholesale reconstruction and elements like suspended pavements can ensure sufficient soil volume for trees long term success. Other times site constraints restrict soil volumes or create exaggerated microclimates that require thoughtful adjustments to a planting palette. How far can a site be altered to accommodate a desired plant list? Should we instead be planting for the sites we are given? James will share select sites from the past decade of work in and around New York City and highlight the tools he and his colleagues have developed to cope with some of the most challenging projects they have faced.
8:30A | Welcome
Opening remarks will be made by Doreen M. Monteleone Ph.D., Arboretum Liaison, Bayard Cutting Arboretum Horticultural Society and Kevin Wiecks, Director, Bayard Cutting Arboretum.
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8:30A | Welcome
Opening remarks will be made by Doreen M. Monteleone Ph.D., Arboretum Liaison, Bayard Cutting Arboretum Horticultural Society and Kevin Wiecks, Director, Bayard Cutting Arboretum.
Doreen Monteleone, Ph.D.
Doreen Monteleone, Ph.D. is president of Bayard Cutting Arboretum Horticultural Society. She is a Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardener and a regular volunteer at the Arboretum. Her professional career began with a doctorate in Coastal Oceanography, but for more than twenty years she has focused on environmental and sustainability issues in manufacturing industries. She is one of the founders of and serves on the Board of Directors for the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership, the leading non-profit accreditation organization that promotes sustainability in the North American printing industry. Dr. Monteleone is an award-winning author and has published more than sixty articles, with ten in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and contributed to five books on environmental issues and sustainability. Her passion for gardening and sustainable practices makes Doreen consider herself an all-around “treehugger.”
2:30P | Refreshment Break
Upper Carriage House
12:15P | Lunch Break
Lower Carriage House, Conifer Garden Tour (weather permitting)
10:45A | Refreshment Break
Upper Carriage House
8:00A | Registration and Refreshments
Upper Carriage House