Daily Archives: January 7, 2018

Saturday, January 20, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Greenhouse Growing and Maintenance

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David Fiske, Mass Hort Gardens Curator, will lead a Saturday, January 20 workshop from 10 – 2 in the Putnam Building at the Gardens at Elm Bank that will show you ways to best utilize your greenhouse and indoor growing spaces. He’ll discuss not only how to use these spaces to grow specific plants and starts, but also review maintenance needs that should be on your seasonal checklist. Massachusetts Horticultural Society Member Cost: $25; Non Member Cost $40. Register online at http://www.masshort.org/eventdetail/612/greenhouse-growing-and-maintenance?filter_reset=1

Conway School of Landscape and Design Moves to Easthamption

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Conway School of Landscape and Design has moved to a mill building on 180 Pleasant Street in Easthampton. The school is leasing space and looking to buy a permanent facility somewhere near an urban center down the road. According to a report by Andy Castillo in the Greenfield Recorder, the move was influenced in part by a changing environmental and technological landscape, and students had difficulty commuting to the rural property which was up. a dirt drive. The school’s educational focus is on the effects of climate change, and resilience to that change, particularly on urban spaces and post-industrial cities. Director Bruce Stedman said that’s easier to teach closer to affected cities and towns.

“Conway School of Landscape and Design was founded in 1972 by Walter Cudnohufsky in a small sugar shack next to his barn on Delabarre Avenue. The school then moved to a 600-square-foot building on Route 116, built in 1986 as a house, remodeled in 2003 . . . He (Cudnohufsky) imagined he would only have it there for a few years,” Stedman said. “Forty-two-odd years later, we’ve done that.”