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  • Wednesday, September 11, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Go Botany: Plant ID Tools at Your Fingertips

    Join the Ecological Landscaping Association and the New England Wild Flower Society on Wednesday, September 11, from 1 – 3 at Garden in the Woods in Framingham for a morning stroll to enjoy the fall foliage as your host Elizabeth Farnsworth demonstrates exciting new tools for plant identification.  Go Botany is the NEWFS’s new website that teaches botany and plant identification.  This resource serves as a filed guide to help you identify and learn about 1,200 of the most common native and naturalized plants of New England.

    This flexible and user-friendly tool helps you identify species based on whichever portions of the plant (leaves, flowers, winter buds, bark, etc.) you are able to observe at any given time of year.  Once you identify the plant, you can see a wealth of information about it, including gorgeous color photographs, maps of its geographic range, diagnostic characteristics, and memorable facts.  Go Botany is optimized for both desktop and tablet computers, so you can use it anywhere you have a web connection.  $20 for ELA and NEWFS members, $25 for nommembers.  For more information email ela.info@comcast.net, or call 617-436-5838.  You may also register online at https://www.eventville.com/catalog/eventregistration1.asp?eventid=1010613.

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  • Friday, July 20, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Invasive Plant Workshop

    Elizabeth Farnsworth is Senior Research Ecologist at the New England Wild Flower Society and Research Associate at Harvard Forest. On Friday, July 20, from 2 – 4, she will introduce Go Botany, a brand new interactive, online plant sharing and identification tool, at Harvard Forest, 324 Main Street in Petersham.  Part of the training will also take place in the field, identifying flora around Harvard Forest. Participants are encouraged to bring laptops, iPods and iphones for easy identification. Participants will also be asked to continue stewardship work on conservation land in their area by identifying invasives and reporting them to the Go Botany blog. Whether you have photographs, sketches, stories about using the Go Botany tool or recipes for cooking with invasives your experiences will help track invasive plants in the North Quabbin region.  The program is free.

    Please RSVP to Aja Lippincott, AmeriCorps Outreach Coordinator, Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust: 978-248-2055 ext. 21, or by email at outreach_americorps@mountgrace.org.