Cayuga Nature Center (CNC) invites the public to its spring open house, a weekend full of food, music, tours and workshops for all ages.
Celebrate spring by joining us on a bird hike, helping build our new gardens, or walking in our woods to learn about woodland plants, mushroom cultivation, and forest management. You can take home new skills such as how to grow culinary mushrooms and cultivate beneficial and native plants in your garden. On Friday, May 16th CNC welcomes local musicians to the stage for an evening benefit aimed at supporting our 2 acres of new gardens. Hee Haw Nightmare will bring its funky folk and old thyme sound at 6:30pm followed by the alternative country group El Caminos. Admission is a $10 suggested donation, with all of the proceeds going towards plants, trees, and seeds. On Saturday, May 17th Admission is free to the center and from 10 am to 4 pm CNC will hold a volunteer day, where community members can join in and help plant out hundreds of flowers, shrubs, and trees while learning about gardening techniques, pruning, and more. Land Use Manager Steve Gabriel will offer garden tours at 12:00pm and 2:00pm and share the permaculture gardening strategies that allow for minimal maintenance, weeding, and water of CNC's gardens. Sunday, May 18th will start early with a bird hike from 7:30am to 9:30am with birder and CNC Board Member Jim Spear. Meet in the lower parking lot. CNC will offer it's monthly brunch from 10:00am to 11:30am sourced from local and organic ingredients. We will serve buttermilk & vegan pancakes, eggs, homefries, and a seasonal dish cooked by CNC staff. Coffee, tea, and juice are included in admission, which is $10 for adults and $5 for children. Local music virtuoso Nate Silas Richardson will provide music during brunch. After brunch join us for a special workshop from 11:30 to 2pm demonstrating the craft of cultivating shitake and oyster mushrooms with Land Use Manager Steve Gabriel and special guest Steve Sierigk. Trails will be open for hiking, and visitors can also enjoy our live animal collection and six story tree house. FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.CayugaNatureCenter.org or 607.273.6260 CNC is a great place to explore the wonders of nature. Exhibits and activities include a collection of over 40 live animals, our butterfly house open from June to September, a six-story observational tree-house and over five miles trails, which meander through a mature deciduous forest, along gorges and streams, and past a variety of native plants and wildlife. _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
