Clifton Park Garden Party (aka Wild Lupine planting party).
Type:Trips - Group Trip
Date:Saturday, April 24, 2010
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Location: Just off exit 10 at Ushers Rd. call for direction 587-5554 x 3
Description
On Saturday, April 24th from 10am- 3pm, Saratoga P.L.A.N. (Preserving Land and Nature) will host a “Lupine Planting Party” at their Karner Blue Butterfly Restoration site in Clifton Park. This child-friendly event is free to the public, but volunteers are asked to call for directions. Volunteers will learn how to plant seeds, about the ecological history of the area and more.
Anyone wanting to come to the event should contact P.L.A.N. at 587-5554 x 3. Please wear good boots.
The restoration site, occurring in Clifton Park just off of Ushers Rd., was made possible by a long history of collaboration between Saratoga P.L.A.N., Assemblyman Robert Reilly, The Town of Clifton Park, The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and several local volunteer groups.
In December 2008, members of Clifton Park highway department braved the snow, wind, and even ice storms to help out. They operated an excavator (donated by Caterpillar Corporation) and cleared vegetation to open over an acre of butterfly habitat at the 3-acre site managed by Saratoga P.L.A.N. Their work made it possible for volunteers (in Spring 2009) to plant Wild Blue Lupine (The Karner Blue’s larvaes’ only host plant) on its preferred habitat of sandy soil with full sunlight. The site now includes thousands of mature lupine plants, with another 2 pounds of lupine seeds to be planted at this “Planting Party”.
Anyone wanting to come to the event should contact P.L.A.N. at 587-5554 x 3.
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