The Quarry Gardens' many native trees should be at their peak of autumn color this weekend. Co-founder Armand Thieblot will lead a morning walk through the brilliantly dappled pointillist landscape. […]
Tree Steward and Master Naturalist Emily Ferguson will lead this walk through the Quarry Gardens' 49 species of native trees.This will be a stunning walk with autumn colors reflecting in […]
The gardens are aglow with autumn's goldenrods and asters. Acorns are falling, trees and shrubs are turning color. This walk will be led by one of the QGs co-founders, Armand […]
Club meeting
Club meeting.
Members of the Blue Ridge Mycological Society remove trees, embedded trash from quarry edges; also treat, remove invasive species. Potluck dinner to follow.
Winter tree identification walk led by Tree Steward and Master Naturalist Emily Ferguson.
Led by Master Gardener Ron Fandetti.
Master Gardener Ron Fandetti will explain and demonstrate correct pruning techniques to promote the health and beauty of your landscape's shrubs and small trees. This workshop for home gardeners will […]
Participants in this basket-weaving workshop, taught by artist Karen Milnes, will craft a small hip basket perfect for mushroom forays in the dense woods of our surrounding forests. Karen has […]
Field trip.
Emma Stephens of the Center for Urban Habitats will be here to help volunteers with spring clean-up of the QGs. The work will include cutting back winter thatch around the […]
Join Tree Steward and Master Naturalist Emily Ferguson as she uses winter characteristics to identify trees and large shrubs along the main trail around the quarries. Owing to variations in […]
Wildflower walk with Dorothy Carney.
Volunteers learn about and help maintain the Quarry Gardens' galleries of native plant communities with guidance from Emma Stephens most Friday mornings from February through November. Hours this week will […]
FrogWatch USA is a citizen science program established in 1998 to provide individuals, groups and families with opportunities to learn about wetlands in their communities by reporting on the calls […]
With engaging visuals—and, she promises, only one fancy geological word—Kate Humphrey Chambers will present the deep history of our region and how it came to be as we know it. […]