Casual social with lemonade & cookies while we informally talk about healthy yards, what ECOS is doing, and take a walk up the street to look at a neighbor & friend of Gillian’s native plantings. [...]

If we’ve timed this right we’ll be able to wander through magnolias in bloom, as well as exploring various plant regions from Europe to Asia to America.  Easy hiking, mostly level, though it might be [...]

"Especially Mushrooms" This walk will focus on mushrooms as well as trees and wildflowers.  Mushroom identification will be for beginners!  Vale Cemetery is an historic "rural" cemetery that opened in 1857 with the planting of [...]

This is a nature and historic park just north of Schuylerville on the Hudson River.  Located on an island of Champlain Canal Lock 5, it offers panoramic river vistas as well as canal overlooks along [...]

A beautiful selection of woodland, lacustrine, and pine barrens, with some of the largest dunes in the Albany Pine Bush and “one of the most biologically diverse parcels in Schenectady County” (Wikipedia).  Relatively flat though [...]