New Germany State Park, Western Maryland
When: Saturday May 12, 2018, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Location: New Germany State Park, Garrett County, Maryland
Discover the important connection between native plants, people, and wildlife at the fifth annual Mountain Maryland Native Plant Festival!
A large variety of plants native to the mid-Atlantic for sale all day! (Please contact vendors directly if you wish to pre-order for pick-up at the event. Purchases made the day of the event are cash or check only.)
Primary Sponsors:
- Evergreen Heritage Center, Mount Savage, MD, www.evergreenheritagecenter.org
- Go Native Tree Farm, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, www.gonativetrees.com
- Wood Thrush Native Plant Nursery, Floyd, Virginia, www.woodthrushnatives.com
Scheduled programs & activities highlight native plants & biodiversity!
Educational programs geared for adults & teens:
- 10:30 to 11:30 am - Nasty Natives? No! (Fact-checking Common Misconceptions about Native Plants) - Candy DeBerry, Professor of Biology, Washington & Jefferson College
- 12:00 to 1:00 pm - Species Complexity: Species, Subspecies, Variants, Eco-types, and Phenotypes - Ian Caton, Owner/Operator, Wood Thrush Native Plant Nursery
- 1:30 to 2:30 pm - Saving the Planet, One Plant at a Time: How a community’s renewed love of native plants can contribute to large-scale biodiversity conservation - Iara Lacher, Landscape Ecologist, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Family-friendly activities:
- 10:00 to 11:00 am - Birds & Blooms (discover birds & wildflowers during this easy walk)
- 2:00 to 3:00 pm - Let’s Pull Together (pull garlic mustard to save an endangered butterfly)
- All day! - Scavenger Hunt (find native plants with special features and win a prize)
Local experts answer questions on native plants & other conservation topics!
- Engage Mountain Maryland - www.engagemmd.org
- Evergreen Heritage Center - www.evergreenheritagecenter.org
- Friends of New Germany State Park – www.facebook.com/FriendsofNewGermanystatepark
- Frostburg Grows - www.frostburggrows.com
- Maryland Conservation Corps -http://dnr.maryland.gov/publiclands/Pages/mcc.aspx
- Maryland Native Plant Society - www.mdflora.org
- Sierra Club Maryland Chapter - www.sierraclub.org/maryland
- University of Maryland Extension, Garrett County Master Gardeners - www.extension.umd.edu/garrett-county/home-gardening
To get a better idea of why this continues to be such a nice event, view this video created at last year’s festival by our friends at Engage Mountain Maryland:
New Germany State Park and the Western Mountains Chapter of MNPS are co-sponsoring this FREE event. More details to follow!
Directions: From I-68 take Exit 22 and follow signs for New Germany State Park. Turn left into the park onto McAndrews Hill Road. Signs will direct you to parking for this special event.
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