Edaville Family Theme Park is excited to bring back a scaled-down version of a beloved New England tradition, the Cranberry Festival, featuring a flea market, craft market, steam train rides, live music, amusement rides, and more! The fair is located at 5 Pine Street in Carver, Massachusetts. Website https://www.facebook.com/events/7917677828262074
Season Passes are accepted at this event.
Studio Lily Kwong’s practice sits at the intersection between horticulture, urban design, contemporary art, and climate awareness with a mission to reconnect people to ecology through transformative landscape projects and site-specific art installations. This American Horticultural Society talk on October 16 at 7 pm will focus on the studio’s philosophy and its unique approach of using plant life as an artistic medium, using exhibitions The Orchid Show: Natural Heritage and an upcoming public art piece for Madison Square Park as examples of works that embody the inspirations and goals of SLK’s projects. $15 for AHS members, $20 for nonmembers.
We will also delve into process – Studio Lily Kwong’s commitment to ecological work starts with our commitment to materials and community. From initial concept development through build, use and end of life, the materials and practices used for our programs are ethically sourced, executed, reused and recycled. In addition to exploring the philosophical framework of our projects, we will also share the technical and logistical aspects of approach that make our pieces thrive and grow.
LA-based Artist Lily Kwong works at the intersection between horticulture, urban design, contemporary art, and climate awareness, reconnecting people to nature through transformative landscape projects and site-specific botanical art installations.
Kwong has been part of numerous public art initiatives since beginning her practice in 2017, including botanical installations at The Highline, NY; Faena Arts, Miami; Grand Central Station, NY; Salone del Mobile, Milan; EXPO CHICAGO, Chicago; and many more. Most recently, she made history as the first female & person of color to take on the role of guest designer for the New York Botanical Garden’s 20th anniversary orchid show – The Orchid Show: Natural Heritage focused on Lily’s Chinese roots & broke attendance records with 265,000 visitors throughout the show’s 3-month run in 2023. She has received numerous accolades for her work: ARCHMARATHON & Dezeen Awards in 2020 for Glossier Seattle, and the World Spa Awards for Shou Sugi Ban House in East Hampton, NY. Kwong has also featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 under the Art & Style Category in 2018 and ELLE Decor’s A-List. She has been selected to speak at MOCA, The Aspen Ideas Festival, The World Youth Forum, Design Miami and NeueHouse.
Kwong graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University’s Urban Studies program in 2012 and participated in the certificate program at the New York Botanical Gardens in 2017. She was a fellow at the Academy of Global Humanities & Critical Theory in Bologna, Italy (2019) and part of the New Museum’s incubator program NEW INC from 2018-2020.
Recognizing her efforts, Kwong was named one of ‘9 Young New Yorkers Poised for Creative Greatness’ by The New York Times and her work has been featured in the New Yorker, Vogue, Architectural Digest, Domino, Forbes, Fast Company and more. She previously served as Landscape Editor for Cultured magazine, where she profiled legends in her field from Agnes Denes to Fernando Caruncho.
This Seed Savers Exchange course will take place over six weeks. Zoom webinars will be presented live each Monday at 7:00 pm Eastern Time from October 7-November 11. Beginning at 6:30 pm Eastern there will be an optional online Seed Social. Students will also have access to a shared folder with webinar recordings and additional educational content.
This series is intended for beginning seed savers and those looking to expand their seed-saving knowledge to new crops and techniques.
Required text: The class series will be based on The Seed Garden, and students will need a copy of the book to participate.
For questions on this workshop series, please contact events@seedsavers.org, or Seed Savers Exchange customer service at (563) 382-5990. Customer service hours are 9 am – 4 pm Central, Monday through Friday. $60 – $110. To register visit www.seedsavers.org
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy and the Library of American Landscape History invite you to a film premiere and panel discussion on Tuesday, October 8 at 6 pm at Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley Street, #200, Boston, Massachusetts. Based on Ethan Carr’s award-winning book Boston’s Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City, the new film from director Ian Forster weaves together interviews with the author, park advocates, and park users, to trace the park’s decline, caused by patterns of institutionalized racism on the part of the City of Boston and the heroic efforts of local residents to save it from ruin. Register and learn more at www.emeraldnecklace.org
Through an exploration of drama, diaries, novels and magazines, this Gardens Trust Wednesday five part series will examine how writers have used gardens and plants to evoke memories, capture ideas of taste and fashion, satirize attitudes, champion social change and give deeper meaning to the world. The chosen authors cover almost four centuries of literature and, through examining their words, we can gain new understandings of the roles, meanings and emotive power of historic landscapes and horticulture. This ticket link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gardens-and-the-written-word-tickets-930348275737 is for the entire series of 5 talks, or you may purchase a ticket for individual talks, costing £8 via the links on that page. (Gardens Trust members £6 each or all 5 for £26.25). All purchases are handled through Eventbrite.
Ticket holders can join each session live and/or view a recording for up to 1 week afterwards. Ticket sales close 4 hours before the first talk. Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days (and again a few hours) prior to the start of the first talk (If you do not receive this link please contact us), and a link to the recorded session will be sent shortly after each session and will be available for 1 weeks.
Week Three is on Wednesday, October 16 at 1 pm Eastern. The career of Jane Webb Loudon (1807-1858) is all too often overshadowed by that of her husband John Claudius Loudon, leaving the impression that she did indeed owe him ’all the knowledge of the subject she possesses’. By examining some of her key publications including Instructions in Gardening for Ladies (1840), The Ladies’ Magazine of Gardening and The Lady’s Country Companion (1845) we can better understand her legacy as knowledgeable botanist, best-selling gardening writer and ground-breaking magazine editor including the role she played in influencing, championing and challenging women’s roles within the garden, the home and wider society.
Dr Rachel Savage’s interest in garden history started over fifteen years ago whilst working as Head of Marketing for the RHS. Since then she has completed qualifications in horticulture, garden design, an MA in Landscape History at UEA and a PhD exploring house and garden design and the gendering of space in the nineteenth century. A trustee for the Gardens Trust, she has also contributed to Norfolk Garden Trust’s publications on Capability Brown and Humphry Repton.
