Allyn's Creek Garden Club

The Allyn’s Creek Garden Club was privileged to have a presentation on local recycling at our November General Meeting by Meagan Evans-Saurini, Environmental Educator for Monroe County Department of Environmental Services. Lots of great information can be found on their website:  https://www.monroecounty.gov/des-solidwaste                 and  https://www.monroecounty.gov/des-residentialrecycling Most of Monroe County’s recycling is in partnership with Waste Management, and there are two landfills in our county. Meagan explained the waste hierarchy upside-down pyramid, and that in our area, we generate about 5 pounds of garbage per person per day!    She gave us some great tips to avoid being ‘wishcyclers’ – putting things in recycling that we wish would be recycled but aren’t – and to prevent clogging the recycling machines: 1) things that aren’t recyclable include plastic pill bottles (those can be taken to EcoPark), plastic clam shells (regardless of their recycling number), plastic

 

In July, the Allyn’s Creek Garden Club was pleased to present Morgan Barry, the Green Visions Director of Workforce Development, with the Common Ground Collaborative grant recently awarded by the GCA. Green Visions plans to renovate the pictured building to hold classrooms and office space for the Program and the interns, which currently number eleven. The ACGC is excited to collaborate with Green Visions on instructing the interns in the areas of horticulture, floral design, conservation, and soil amendment.  Karen Boucher, Morgan Barry, Leslie Huey, and Susan Murray

 

Members of the Allyn’s Creek (ACGC) and Rochester Garden (RGC) Clubs recently volunteer to help plant boxwoods at the George Eastman Museum ’s Historic Garden during the recent renovations. In 2017 both clubs donated towards replacing the terrace boxwoods. Unfortunately, boxwood blight prevented the purchase of new plants. Instead, the Eastman Horticulturist took cuttings from the original boxwoods and grew new plants. The garden is now being restored back to the original design.  Both clubs also donated toward restoration of the lily pond located in the garden.  Mary Ann Giglio, Irmeli Ratnik, Sue Lawton, Deb Hale, Linda Buttrill, Mary Clare Hamlin and Leslie Huey  

Chrissy Bennett-West, Matthew Benson, Marie McNabb and President Leslie Huey Attendees at our Spring Luncheon at the Memorial Art Gallery were delighted by anecdotes and garden tips from our guest of honor, Matthew Benson, owner of Stonegate Farm . We were not only honored to have him as our guest, but lucky, as well. Air travel can be unreliable, especially in and out of Rochester. Because of storms somewhere in the flight path, Matthew's Sunday afternoon flight to Rochester was delayed until the wee hours of Monday morning! His travel travails and lack of sleep didn't diminish his lively and inspiring talks on both growing beautiful food and garden photography. We also enjoyed a delicious lunch catered by  Brown Hound , and the event raised over $24,000 for our Club's ongoing projects. Many thanks to Chrissy Bennett-West and Marie McNabb for organizing the two-day event, and to Joan Fulreader for organizing the silent auction! The following day, nine participants accompa