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Flower City Looking We Are Wellness 2011 Flower City Looking We are wellness. Living well is the goal. As individuals. And together. That’s why MVP Health Care is proud to support wellness in all its forms and help our whole community build a healthier future. www.mvphealthcare.com Get out, get healthy, get excited about Rochester! Rochester possesses an astounding all around them. It’s easy to do this as a child, it can lead to a lifetime of variety of nature within the city in Rochester! appreciating and nurturing the world limits, from the Genesee River and around us. Last Child in the Woods Our 2011 Flower City Looking Good Gorge that bisects the city to the illuminates the crucial role of the schedule abundance of native trees and flowers is inspired by a seminal natural world in a young person’s to a cornucopia of colorful birds, book, Richard Louv’s Last Child in sense of self-respect and confidence. It including Peregrine falcons downtown. the Woods: Saving our Children from may be easier to allow a child to watch Nature-Deficit Disorder. Luis Burgos, television or play a video game so you Stunning waterfalls – got it! Historic the City’s Commissioner of Recreation can get some work done, but take a parks – got it! Unparalleled lilac and Youth Services, recently ordered a break to find a worm under a rock collection – got it! Trails for biking and box of these books and handed them or the cricket singing in the garage. jogging – lots of them! Waterways for out to numerous staff members. He These actions connect a child (and you) canoeing and kayaking – we’ve got had discovered that Rochester’s nature to nature and create many valuable rivers, streams, lakes and canals! was not only in the parks, but in places lifetime benefits. like his backyard, just off North Clinton In 2011, the annual Flower City Avenue. As he learned to recognize The vast majority of Flower City Looking Good series of events and the specific calls of cardinals, blue jays, Looking Good activities are free activities will celebrate the unique chickadees and the great horned owl, and widely distributed around the city combination of natural assets right in he realized there was a vast diversity of Rochester. Join us to discover the our city. Challenge yourself to discover and quality of nature right outside his nature right around us! Bring your kids, areas you have never seen, from the door. There is something about seeing grandkids, neighbors and friends. Lower River Gorge to Washington Grove and naming a bird, tree or flower that We also love to have volunteers in Cobb’s Hill to the magnificent natural establishes a connection. and built environments in Turning Point to help with trails and to plant Park. While it is important for you to In our modern wired and wireless flowers/bulbs.Please contact the City discover these areas, it is even more world, kids must be encouraged and Recreation Office at (585) 428-6770 if crucial that you introduce the next even pulled outside to connect with you’d like to get involved. generation to the nature that’s nature. If that connection can be made Bringing If you would like to share your There is also an Earth Explorer program interest and knowledge of nature at the Rec Centers, through which kids kids and with the next generation, please are learning about the natural world consider volunteering to help the around them, from raising monarch Flower City Kids program where butterflies to identifying trees. Volunteers elementary school children plant could read books, help students with naturetogether seeds in the class room and then projects and work in the gardens. Visit plant them outside in the spring. www.cityofrochester.gov/flowercitykids. 1 FREE Horticultural Workshops and Talks March through October, 2011 Spring Garden Talks March 26-May 21: Saturdays their roots established in the warm fall Many of these talks will be hosted by at the Libraries, 12:30-1:30 pm soil with months to develop before facing the heat of summer. Planting in the fall Master Gardeners of Cornell Coopera- March 26: Sully Branch will mean much less watering next tive Extension of Monroe County (www. 530 Webster Ave. summer and significantly larger plants. mycce.org/monroe). Subjects include April 2: Winton Branch gardening on a budget, growing plants 611 N. Winton Rd. Saturday Rose Workshops at Maple- from seed, planning a vegetable garden, April 9: Lincoln Branch wood Rose Garden, 10 am–12 pm. maximizing color with annuals and 851 Joseph Ave. Greater Rochester Rose Society members perennials, raising herbs and recognizing April 16: Charlotte Branch will provide expert advice on roses and poison ivy. Each week will offer a differ- 3615 Lake Ave. hands-on demonstrations. Meet by the ent presentation, learn from your fellow April 23: Monroe Branch fountain at the Maplewood Rose Garden, gardeners and bring plants for help in 809 Monroe Ave. corner of Lake Ave. and Driving Park Ave. identification. Talks will last an hour, with April 30: Lyell Branch Free admission and no prior registration, Q & A throughout. 956 Lyell Ave. rain or shine. March 21 - July 18: May 7: Arnett Branch May 7: Pruning Roses Monday Garden Talks, 6-7 pm 310 Arnett Blvd. June 18: Rose Tours May 14: Maplewood Branch March 21, July 18: Carter Street July 23: Insects and Fungal Diseases 1111 Dewey Ave. Community Center, 500 Carter St. in the Rose Garden May 21: Phillis Wheatley Branch March 28, May 16: Avenue D October 8: Winterizing Your Roses 33 Dr. Samuel McCree Way Community Center, 200 Ave. D See page 11 for additional gardening Fall Garden Talks April 4, May 23: Campbell Street and cooking classes at Cornell Coopera- Community Center, 524 Campbell St. Check www.cityofrochester.gov tive Extension of Monroe County, or visit April 11, June 6: Thomas P. Ryan for the fall dates, TBA. www.MYCCE.org/Monroe. Community Center, 530 Webster Ave. Subjects will include seeding grass, divid- Local Gardening Classes April 18, June 13: Edgerton Community ing perennials, pruning shrubs, planting Center, 41 Backus St. Rochester Civic Garden Center garlic, saving vegetable seeds, planting www.rcgg.org April 25, June 20: South Avenue spring bulbs and composting. Fall is Recreation Center, 999 South Ave. the best time to plant almost anything, Northeast Organic Farming Assoc. of May 2, June 27: David F. Gantt except tomatoes and peppers. It is an New York (NOFA-NY) www.nofany.org Community Center, 700 North St. excellent time to plant a late season crop Rochester Roots (summer classes for May 9, July 11: Flint Street Recreation of lettuce, peas and spinach. Perennials, teachers) www.rochesterroots.org Center, 271 Flint St. shrubs and trees will have time to get Special Events Flower City Days at the Market Lilac Festival in Highland Park focuses on the beauty of more than 300 Sundays, May 8, 15 & 22, June 5, 8 am May 13-22. www.lilacfestival.com rose varieties. www.cityofrochester.gov/ maplewoodpark. – 2 pm; Memorial Day Weekend May 27, This legendary festival includes the 29 & 30. Rochester Public Market, 280 Master Gardener Plant Sale at Cornell Enjoy hands-on garden/landscape North Union St. (585) 428-6907, www. Cooperative Extension of Monroe activities for adults and kids from cityofrochester.gov/publicmarket. County’s offices at 249 Highland Ave. Rochester’s top-notch professionals in Visit these Sunday sales that attract Maplewood Rose Celebration the green industry, and jazz and wine in the garden on Saturday afternoon. Other 20,000 shoppers each week. Hundreds Horticulture, Historic Homes and Heritage activities: Party on the Driving Park Bridge of area growers bring plants directly of the Maplewood Neighborhood! (Friday, June 17) and a Father’s Day Picnic to gardeners. Join in Rochester’s green Saturday & Sunday, June 18 & 19 (Sunday, June 19). Sponsored by the revolution by recycling your old plant Maplewood Park and Rose Garden, Maplewood Neighborhood Association containers! Master Gardeners from corner of Lake Ave. and Driving Park Ave. Monroe County Cornell Cooperative (www.maplewood.org), MVP Health Care, Extension available to answer all your Bring family and friends for a photo op Wegmans, and the City of Rochester. with over 5,000 roses. Held during the gardening questions. Vendor spaces still available, call (585) 428-6907. peak of the blooming season, the event 2 History and Nature Walks Family Walks in Washington Grove Tuesday, Aug. 23, 8:30 pm: Night in Nestled behind the reservoir atop an Old Growth Forest (Adult). Enjoy the Cobb’s Hill is a beautiful grove of giant tranquility and mystery of this beauti- old oaks, named Washington Grove ful forest. Learn to recognize these after our First President. A dedicated giant trees and find out how the City coalition of people and neighborhood is working to protect it and remove groups is collaborating with Sierra Club invasive species. and the City of Rochester to restore Birding Presentations by the and protect the Grove. Meet at Nunda Genesee Valley Audubon Society: Blvd. by Cobb’s Hill Drive. For more The Genesee Valley Audubon Society information call (585) 234-1056. (www.gvaudubon.org) serves Monroe Wednesday, March 30, 5:30 pm: County and parts of Genesee, Livings- Mighty giants of the Washington ton and Ontario Counties. Visit the web Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery Grove. Spring night walk for adults site or email [email protected] In 1838 Mount Hope Cemetery was with Peter Debes of the Friends of for updated information. dedicated as the first municipal Vic- Washington Grove and the Rochester Falcons in the City torian cemetery in the United States.
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