Gardening with Native Wildflowers: Saturday, Apr 27, Pound Ridge

Gardening with Native Wildflowers

Led by landscape designer Lynn Becker, Chair of Bedford

Audubon’s Leon Levy Native Garden Committee, learn the

basics of gardening with native wildflowers in this hands-on

workshop set in a beautiful woodland garden planted and

nurtured by the late Sara Stein.  Participants will learn by planting

new flower beds in Sara’s garden, keeping her legacy alive!

Saturday, April 27
Raindate: Saturday, May 4
Choose 9-11am or 1-3pm
Sara Stein’s garden Pound Ridge

All events are free, but please pre-register with Evelyn@westchesterlandtrust.org or call 914.234.6992 ext. 24.  For more information visit: www.WestchesterLandTrust.org/wildflowers
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A Walk on the Wild(flower) Side: Saturday, Apr 20, Bedford

A Walk on the Wild(flower) Side

Join ecologists for a guided walk of Mianus River Gorge to learn

about wildflowers and efforts to conserve them. 1/2-hour guided

walks from 1:30 to 2:30. At 3pm, refreshments and slide show by

Carol Levine. Tours led by Rod Christie and Mark Weckel

(Mianus River Gorge), David Emerson (Westchester Land

Trust), Carol Levine (NY Botanical Garden).

Saturday, April 20

Raindate: Sunday, April 21
1:30 - 3:30pm
Mianus River Gorge 167 Mianus Rd., Bedford

All events are free, but please pre-register with Evelyn@westchesterlandtrust.org or call 914.234.6992 ext. 24.  For more information visit: www.WestchesterLandTrust.org/wildflowers

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Ecology Sail, Tues, July 10

Schooner SoundWaters & Westchester Land Trust

During the sail, passengers will have the opportunity to enjoy the Sound and participate in learning stations that highlight the importance of upland conservation on the health of the environment. Participants will sample and test water quality, learn about hypoxia, analyze groundwater filtration, work together to raise the sails, and examine firsthand the rich diversity of life that exists beneath the waves.
 The sail is partially funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in an effort to improve the access of public to Long Island Sound while encouraging stewardship within our communities.

All passengers must be at least 7 years old.  Fee: $20 per person

TO PURCHASE A TICKET VISIT: https://soundwaters.ejoinme.org/?tabid=356666


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The Sixties Show, Saturday May 5, Waccabuc

Celebrate that special place and time that was the 60’s as it comes to life again with The Sixties Show, the 1960’s foremost tribute band! Revisit, or encounter for the first time, the feeling of that unforgettable era. Special seats for those who wear 60’s attire!  Click here to learn more and to register

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Lewisboro Earth Day Events

Lewisboro Earth Day Events

• If you haven't already registered, head over to Meetup.com http://www.meetup.com/Katonah-Green-and-Beyond/events/57329672/ and sign up for the Lewisboro Sustainability Committee's Earth Day Community Gathering at Cyrus Russell House. This is a great chance to kindle your eco-loving soul with friends, meet more like-minded people in the community, share good food, play and hear some music. Totally family-friendly, participatory, free and heart-warming. 
• Friday night Earth-Day concert by EarthTones, South Salem Presbyterian Church, April 20th
  
• Sunday, April 22, 1pm: Leon Levy Preserve Earth Day Celebration, Leon Levy Preserve  http://www.westchesterlandtrust.org/  Noted local naturalist Jim Nordgren will lead participants alongside vernal pools to see and hear breeding frogs and other amphibians, past thickets and through woodlands to listen and look for migrating birds, and over ledges and rock outcrops that show the unique geology of Westchester County.

• Saturday, April 28th Katonah-Lewisboro KLSD Sustainability Fair http://bedford.patch.com/articles/k-l-district-announces-annual-wellness-and-sustainability-fair 

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The Making of a Conservationist: Leon Levy Environmental Symposium, Sunday, Mar 6, Bedford

Author Alex Shoumatoff, right, will speak at the third annual Leon Levy Environmental Symposium, Sunday, March 6, in Bedford Village. He is shown here with a Siberian berry picker he met while researching a story for Vanity Fair magazine.

The Westchester Land Trust is thrilled to confirm that legendary journalist, travel writer, world explorer, environmental activist — and Bedford native — Alex Shoumatoff will be the featured speaker at WLT’s Leon Levy Environmental Symposium.

The event happens Sunday, March 6th, at 3pm, at the Bedford Village Historical Hall. Admission is free and the symposium is followed by an informal reception.

Shoumatoff is one of the most far-flung of environmental and travel writers. He writes for Vanity Fair, is a former New Yorker staff writer, has authored 10 books, and his website Dispatches From a Vanishing World, dedicated to raising consciousness about disappearing species and cultures, is visited by readers from over 90 countries every month.

A graduate of Rippowam-Cisqua School (and later of Harvard University), Shoumatoff credits his youth in Bedford as the primary force in making him a committed, passionate conservationist.

As a young man, he was curator of the Marsh Sanctuary in Mount Kisco and taught natural history at Rippowam-Cisqua, having inherited a love of the outdoors from his father and brother. Nicholas Shoumatoff Sr. was president of Westmoreland Sanctuary and Bedford Audubon; Nicholas Jr. was curator of the Trailside Museum at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation.

Appropriately, his talk is “Westchester, Bedford and the Making of a Conservationist,” and will focus on how his youth here led to his career as a writer and activist on environmental issues.

Seating is limited so please RSVP to grace@Westchesterlandtrust.org or RSVP on Facebook or Eventbrite


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Annie Novack "Urban Farms, Upstate Lands & Local Food", Thursday, Jan 20th

WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST'S “Food, Land, Sustainability” Lecture

Farmer-activist Annie Novak, the founder and executive director of Growing Chefs and co-founder of the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Brooklyn, will give the “Food, Land, Sustainability” lecture at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, on Thursday, January 20, 2011.

Annie’s talk will start at 7 p.m. in the Sarah Lawrence’s Heimbold Visual Arts Center.

The co-sponsor of the event is Sarah Lawrence College.

The public is welcome (there's a suggested donation of $15), but space is limited so please RSVP to grace@westchesterlandtrust.org, to make sure we save a seat for you.

Annie's talk is called “Urban Farms, Upstate Lands & Local Food,” and will focus on the connection between growing food in the city and the preservation of farmland in the Hudson Valley; the growth of our local food system; and issues of access to farmland for young farmers.

Her work has been featured on CNN, in New York magazine ("A Guide to the City's Urban Farmers"), on Salon.com and many other news outlets.

A Sarah Lawrence graduate, she founded Growing Chefs in 2005 as a way to connect people to food, from the soil to the kitchen. Growing Chefs offers educational programming in farming, gardening and cooking with simple recipes using seasonal ingredients.
 

Eagle Street Rooftop Farm is a 6,000 square foot green roof organic vegetable farm located atop a warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The farmers at Eagle Street supply a community supported agriculture program (CSA) and an onsite farm market, and bicycle fresh produce to area restaurants.
 

Last year’s “Food, Land, Sustainability” talk at Sarah Lawrence was given by Josh Viertel, executive director of Slow Food USA.

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Nature Quest at Bylane Farm, Opening Day Sunday, May 23rd, Katonah, NY

The New NATURE QUEST SELF-GUIDED TOUR at Bylane Farm!

Learn about our local birds and have fun at the same time at the new “Nature Quest,” opening May 23 at Bylane Farm, Katonah. Free.

A Quest is a self-guided nature tour that uses a series of questions and clues to entertain and teach visitors about an aspect of the natural world. The new Quest will officially open and the public is welcome to visit Bylane anytime during the day (the trails officially close at dusk).

Westchester Land Trust and the Bedford Audubon Society invite you to participate in the opening of a new Nature Quest on Sunday, May 23, at Bedford Audubon’s Bylane Farm in Katonah.

The Quest is designed for all ages – especially families with children – and will introduce both novices and more experienced birdwatchers to the habits and habitats of a dozen or more of the fascinating birds that make their homes at Bylane, plus the trees, shrubs and other animals that share the habitat.

The creation of this Quest was generously sponsored by Jennifer and Roger Schwartz through the Louis and Anne Abrons Family Foundation.

Completion of the Quest takes a little over an hour. Bylane Farm is at 35 Todd Road, Katonah.

Westchester Land Trust now has three Quests, each designed to appeal to a range of age groups, including children (the Land Trust’s other Quests are at the Frederick P. Rose Preserve, in Cross River, and Westchester Wilderness Walk, in Pound Ridge).

The new Quest was designed in partnership with Bedford Audubon Society, a locally based chapter of the National Audubon Society. Founded in 1913, Bedford Audubon serves much of northern Westchester and Putnam Counties. Its mission is to promote environmental education, grass-roots activism, public and private conservation efforts, and preservation and protection of open space.

Founded in 1988, Westchester Land Trust has helped preserve more than 6,600 acres in 28 communities. Its mission is to preserve land in partnership with private property owners; help communities create new parks and preserves; and foster sound land use planning.

www.Westchesterlandtrust.org
www.Bedfordaudubon.org

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Food, Land, Sustainability in Westchester, Sunday, March 28, Bedford Village

Food, Land, Sustainability: 
Part of a series of 5 cutting edge lectures about the environment, the way we live today, 
and the way we'll need to live in the future


Sunday, March 28, 2010, 3 p.m. 

No Farms, No Food/No Farmers, No Food
A panel discussion featuring local farmers

Lisa Schwartz, Bob Stuart, Mimi Edelman and Betsy Ryder

St. Matthew's Church, Bedford Village
The suggested donation is $15 per lecture, or $50 for all five. All proceeds will go to support our land preservation work throughout the county.

Visit the WLT website here, follow them on Twitter, join their conversation on Facebook.

Email Grace Buck to reserve a spot at any of the lectures: Grace@westchesterlandtrust.org.

Or call for more information: 914 241-6346 x24.

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Leon Levy Environmental Symposium: How the Greenmarket Saved the Hudson Valley, Sunday, March 7, South Salem

Food, Land, Sustainability: 
Part of a series of 5 cutting edge lectures about the environment, the way we live today, 
and the way we'll need to live in the future

Sunday, March 7, 2010, 3 p.m.

The Annual Leon Levy Environmental Symposium
How the Greenmarket Saved the Hudson Valley
Barry Benepe, co-founder of the New York City Greenmarkets
Jewish Family Congregation, South Salem

Benepe, an architect and planner, started the Greenmarket program in 1975 with an $800 grant from the America the Beautiful Fund to demonstrate how temporary markets could bring life to streets and create community gathering places on empty lots and underused parks. The program now sponsors farmers markets in more than 30 neighborhoods across all five boroughs.Benepe also helped found Transportation Alternatives more info here

The suggested donation is $15 per lecture, or $50 for all five. All proceeds will go to support our land preservation work throughout the county.

Visit the WLT website here, follow them on Twitter, join their conversation on Facebook.

Email Grace Buck to reserve a spot at any of the lectures: Grace@westchesterlandtrust.org.

Or call for more information: 914 241-6346 x24.

If this topic interests you, see the KatonahGreen article on Farmer's Markets as a sign of a vital community
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Food, Land, Sustainability in Westchester, Sunday, March 7, S. Salem

Food, Land, Sustainability: 
5 cutting edge lectures about the environment, the way we live today, 
and the way we'll need to live in the future

Sunday, March 7, 2010, 3 p.m.

The Annual Leon Levy Environmental Symposium
How the Greenmarket Saved the Hudson Valley
Barry Benepe, co-founder of the New York City Greenmarkets
Jewish Family Congregation, South Salem

Benepe, an architect and planner, started the Greenmarket program in 1975 with an $800 grant from the America the Beautiful Fund to demonstrate how temporary markets could bring life to streets and create community gathering places on empty lots and underused parks. The program now sponsors farmers markets in more than 30 neighborhoods across all five boroughs.Benepe also helped found Transportation Alternatives more info here

The suggested donation is $15 per lecture, or $50 for all five. All proceeds will go to support our land preservation work throughout the county.



Visit the WLT website here, follow them on Twitter, join their conversation on Facebook.

Email Grace Buck to reserve a spot at any of the lectures: Grace@westchesterlandtrust.org.

Or call for more information: 914 241-6346 x24.
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