2024 Calendar of Events
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Today our volunteer Garden Greeters will be on site from 1pm-3pm to answer questions about Beatrix, Bellefield Mansion, and the Blooms! Reservations are not required.
Today our volunteer Garden Greeters will be on site from 1pm-3pm to answer questions about Beatrix, Bellefield Mansion, and the Blooms! Reservations are not required.
Harnek Singh will speak about using succulents in temperate garden designs.
Today our volunteer Garden Greeters will be on site from 1pm-3pm to answer questions about Beatrix, Bellefield Mansion, and the Blooms! Reservations are not required.
Today our volunteer Garden Greeters will be on site from 1pm-3pm to answer questions about Beatrix, Bellefield Mansion, and the Blooms! Reservations are not required.
Bring food and drinks for a picnic and an incredible afternoon of Son Jarocho music at the beautiful Beatrix Farrand Garden at Bellefield.
In this talk, disease ecologist Felicia Keesing will describe a recent project to determine how controlling ticks in residential neighborhoods of Dutchess County, New York affected tick abundance, tick infection, and incidence of tick-borne diseases in people and pets.
Vassar was Farrand’s one opportunity to work at a women’s college, and she came to campus during a significant period for women and landscape, on the grounds and in the curriculum. Chair of Botany and pioneering ecologist Edith Roberts was fostering progressive programs in native plant ecology and landscape architecture made Vassar an early center for women and landscape. But all these projects also encountered resistance, so this narrative is one of progressive ideas, both realized and thwarted.
Join us for an informal morning chat about East coast native plant communities, inspired by American Plants for American Gardens, a forward-thinking book first published by Vassar College professors Edith A. Roberts and Else Rehmann in 1929.
Past projects below were made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
A past project was also made possible, in part, through funding from Dutchess Tourism, Inc. and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
You’ll have a week to shop for beautiful greenhouse grown Farrand signature perennials and stunning annuals. Pick-up for all purchases is Saturday, June 3rd from 10:00am-12:00pm at the Bellefield Mansion driveway on the grounds of the Home of FDR National Historic Site in Hyde Park, NY.