Daily Archives: June 2, 2020

Northern Forest Atlas Now Available – Free Downloads

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Northern Forest Digital Atlases are unique products developed to showcase high-resolution photography. Each contains 1,400 or more pictures, with notes on identification and ecology. The majority of the pictures can be zoomed to full screen or beyond; on a full-size monitor this gives magnifications from 3x to over 50x, and allows the atlases to function as digital microscopes, preloaded with 200 to 300 species each.
The Digital Atlases are both useful and beautiful. Students and naturalists can use them for identification, review, and to meet plants they haven’t seen. Anyone who loves plants will enjoy the imagery, and to see thousands of details that have never been photographed clearly before.
The Digital Atlases are supplied as pdfs for free download. They may be used for any personal, educational, or nonprofit purpose. Sedges (357 pages, 223 species) is currently available. Mosses (1,156 pages, about 330 species) and Woody Plants (724 pages, about 270 species) are now available for download. A digital atlas of grasses is currently under preparation and will be available in spring 2022. Visit www.northernforestatlas.org.

Woody Plants of Northern Forest: A Digital Atlas

Saturday, June 6, 9:00 am – 12:00 noon – New England Plant Swap Cancelled

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There is no way this event could be run safely this year, and regretfully the Plant Swap has been cancelled.

Bring a Plant, Take a Plant – Bring Many, Take Many!  Sharing is one of the best parts of gardening, and if you haven’t beeen to a good, old-fashioned plant swap you’re in for a treat.  The New England Plant Swap will take place Saturday, June 6, from 9 – noon at Adams Farm, 999 North Street in Walpole.  Pot up your excess prized plants to share, split your bulbs, thin your annuals.  Load up your bounty and plan to arrive before 9 am.  There, you will meet other local gardeners with their booty to share.  One on one trading starts at 9, and at around 9:30, we go in rounds. At the end, because the farm must be left clean, everybody gets plants! Gently used tools, books, art, containers, and supplies are very popular, too. Please label! For more information visit https://newenglandplantswap.wordpress.com/

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