Calling all nature novices! It's summer wildflower season!!! Merge your enthusiasm for science and nature through the fascinating and abstract world of plants. Join Kris Garnier, your passionate plant guide and herbarium artist, for the second of a series of monthly wildflower walks, followed by a mini-plant lab as we build our first year’s collection of White Feather Farm herbarium specimens!
On our walk, we will explore the native, naturalized, and invasive plants growing on the beautifully diverse farm property and learn plant identification basics. After our stroll, we will study the intricacy and beauty of our focus plants under microscopes and loupes. Our diverse botanical library will also be available for more detailed information on our collected plants.
The walk is approximately an hour and a half followed by the open-ended mini-plant lab.
Suggested materials: bring a shoulder bag or backpack with your favorite plant ID book (not required), notebook or sketchbook, pen or pencil, insect/tick repellant, water, brimmed hat, sun protection, sensible shoes, and a passion for plants! Cameras are definitely welcome!
*Suggested Donation $25*
Meet your guide, Kris Garnier!
For the past 25 years, Kris has been overseeing greenhouses, gardens and indoor plant collections for both businesses and estates throughout the Hudson Valley. She spends her free time learning about plants, where-ever they may be growing, by exploring in the woods, fields, on mountain trails, stream sides, road sides, overgrown lots, and even cracks in a sidewalk! Her goal is to offer her enthusiasm about plants to get people on their lifelong path of passion for the natural world around us! Kris has earned a certification in botany through The New York Botanical Garden and is a New York State Licensed Guide, her artwork is sold privately.