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We are delighted to welcome this year’s very special guest speaker, Margaret Roach, Award Winning Gardening Authority, editor of the wildly popular website AWaytoGarden.com and fortunately for every Friend of Taconic State Park, our neighbor in Copake Falls.

Margaret will talk about her great passion …

My Wild Life in Copake Falls, or, What I Learned from the Beautiful and Bountiful Creatures Who Also Call This Special Place Home.

Tickets $35 (plus Eventbrite’s small convenience fee) at Eventbrite.

Margaret has been a leading garden writer for more than 30 years—at ‘Martha Stewart Living,’ ‘Newsday,’ and in three books. Since April 2020, she has been the garden columnist for “The New York Times” where she began her journalism career decades ago. She hosts a public-radio podcast; she teaches online and holds hold tours at her 2.3-acre Hudson Valley (NY) Zone 5B garden where, according to Margaret, she always says no to chemicals and yes to great plants.

Her interest in plants and her two in-ground water gardens have introduced her to some 70 species of birds that visit the garden each year, almost 200 species of moths, and all manner of neighbors from bullfrog to bobcat to black bear to Bergquists.

Margaret is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. In March 2024 she received the prestigious A. H. Scott Medal & Award, given annually to an individual, organization or corporate body who, in the opinion of the Swarthmore Arboretum Selection Committee, has made an outstanding national contribution to the science and the art of gardening.

BYOB. Please contact us to request a vegetarian meal.

Tickets $35 (plus Eventbrite’s small convenience fee) at https://FTSPBBQ2024.eventbrite.com.