Calendar of Events & Activities
Summer 2011
Celebrate Thursdays at the Intervale through August 25, 5:30-8pm
- Friday, June 3rd (6-8pm): 'Into the Intervale' opening reception -- Landscapes of Burlington's sustainable farmlands, trails, and river by Katherine Montstream.
Also, Wednesday, June 15th (7-8:30pm): 'Into the Intervale' gallery talk
Location: The SEABA Center - 404 Pine St, Burlington VT
Past & On-going
Thursday, May 26th (5-7pm): Music in the Loft at Shelburne Vineyard - 10% of the proceeds will benefit the Intervale Center!
- Friday, May 27th: buy tickets for the June 24th Vermont Lake Monsters baseball game - Tickets are only $6 and 50% of the proceeds from May 27th's sales will benefit the Intervale Center!
The Vermont Lake Monsters, the Single-A minor league baseball team of the Oakland Athletics, and the Intervale Center are teaming up to raise funds for the Intervale Center. Buy your tickets to the June 24, 2011 game on May 27th here!
PLEASE NOTE: This link will only be live from 12:00 Midnight May 26, 2011 to 12:00 Midnight May 27, 2011.Only tickets purchased through this link on that day will benefit the Intervale Center.
- April 26th, 2011 (6-9pm): Burlington Green Drinks & Farm to Plate: Vermont’s 10 Year Plan for Strengthening Local Food event
- April 20th: Bluebird Tavern Community Night ( 5-9pm) - 10% of the proceeds go to the Intervale Center (make sure you mention us when you dine)!
- March 26th, 2011: Community run in the Intervale in partnership with Winooski Natural Resources Conservation District after a workshop on rain gardens at Gardener's Supply
- Dec. 17, 2010 -- 9:30am-4pm: Vineyard and Winery Economics & Management Seminar at the Fletcher Free Library facilitated by Dr Gerald White and Dr Tom Cottrel
- November 23, 2010 -- "Growing Roots" book event hosted by City Market
- Ongoing Intervale Activities
- Farmers’ Markets
- 10.10.10 Work Party nationwide event: Volunteer at the Intervale Conservation Nursery - Sunday, October 10th
- Special Presentation of the Sacred Seeds Program - Monday, October 4th at UVM
- 2010 Summer Thursdays at the Intervale - from July 8th to August 26th
- More Events Around the Intervale
Tuesday, April 26th: Burlington Green Drinks & Farm to Plate: Vermont’s 10 Year Plan for Strengthening Local Food
Join us for Burlington Green Drinks, co-sponsored by City Market and the Burlington Food Council, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m at Main Street Landing.
Burlington Green Drinks is a social-networking event set on the last Tuesday of every month in the Main Street Landing Building. The first 125 pints of delicious Wolaver's Organic Ales are provided at no cost.
Attend the Farm-to-Plate meeting, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. at the Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing.
How can Vermont build strong local food systems, create jobs in the food and farm economy, and improve access to healthy local food? The Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund has laid out an impressive road map for the next 10 years of agricultural development with January’s release of the Farm-to-Plate Strategic Plan.
Kit Perkins, project manager of the Initiative, will lead this presentation to discuss the findings of the Initiative’s exhaustive 18-month research project. She’ll present their strategies to increase jobs and enterprises in the farm and food sector and ramp up local food production and consumption in Vermont and regions beyond our borders. Get a sneak peak at the plan’s Executive Summary. This presentation is co-sponsored by the Intervale Center, City Market and the Burlington Food Council.
March 26th, 2011, 11:30am in the Intervale: Community run in partnership with Winooski Natural Resources Conservation District (WNRCD)
Winooski NRCD is hosting a series of community runs throughout the season highlighting different watershed issues and solutions. On March 26th, WNRCD is offering a workshop on Rain Gardens at Gardener’s Supply in Burlington from 9:30-11am, followed by a 3.5 mile (moderately paced) community run in the Intervale at 11:30am in partnership with the Intervale Conservation Nursery. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the benefits of riparina areas!
November 23, 2010, 4pm at City Market: Growing Roots book event
The Intervale Center and City Market are hosting a book talk for the amazing new book Growing Roots: The Next Generation of Sustainable Farmers, Cooks, and Food Activists, widely acclaimed by the likes of Michael Pollan and Alice Waters. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the sustainable food movement around the country and to get inspired by stories and recipes. Author Katherine Leiner will give a reading from the book, followed by a Q&A and book signing. The event is at 4:00 p.m. and takes place in the City Market conference room. Kids’ activities and snacks provided!
Saturday, October 16th, 10am-1pm: discussion & volunteer opportunity for an invasive plant removal work day at the Intervale Center!
Please join the Intervale Center and Vermont Land Trust on Saturday, October 16th, 10:00a.m.-1:00p.m. for an invasive plant removal work day at the Intervale Center. The Intervale Center owns or manages more than 350 acres of farmland, wetlands, and riparian forests. Invasive plants can out-compete native plants for water and nutrients, changing the composition of our native forests. Join us to work on removing invasive buckthorn, to keep our riparian forests healthy. We’ll start our day with a discussion of the Intervale Center’s forest communities and their significance with Liz Thompson, Director of Conservation Science at Vermont Land Trust. Then we’ll use hand tools to cut and remove invasive plants. Please bring a bag lunch. We’ll provide hot drinks and cider!
We will have a limited supply of tools available. Please bring pruning shears, loppers, and hand saws.
If you’d like to attend, please RSVP to Sandi Dincki by October 13th, 802.660.0440 x113 or sandi@intervale.org.
Sunday, October 10th, 11am-3pm: Volunteer at the Conservation Nursery for 10.10.10!
Please come and help us clear brush in preparation for the winter! Then head out to Battery Park for a celebration with participants from all the other 10.10.10 events taking place in the Burlington area. Please contact Lynn to volunteer!
The Intervale Community Farm is also hosting volunteers for a Harvest Pickin' Party. Please contact Meg from City Market to volunteer.
10.10.10 is organized by 350.org.
Monday, October 4th at 6pm -- UVM Rowell Hall (Room 103): Sacred Seeds: Preserving Diversity and Healing Traditions
A special presentation by Ashley Glenn and Sara NewmarkThe World Health Organization estimates that 90% of the population of developing countries relies on medicinal herbs to meet primary health-care needs. Now, these herbal treasures are under attack, as overharvesting and global climate change threaten many medicinal herbs with extinction. Also endangered are the languages and healing traditions of indigenous cultures. Anthropologists believe that every two weeks a language disappears, a traditional culture comes to an end, and the collective herbal wisdom of a people vanishes. The Sacred Seeds Program at the Missouri Botanical Gardens is working to set up
innovative partnerships throughout the world to create opportunities for preserving knowledge, protecting environments and supporting living traditions. Innovative partnerships are the hallmark of this effort. The work of Brattleboro-based New Chapter, a widely respected producer, formulator, packager and distributor of organic whole-food nutrients and herbal formulations, will be highlighted
and one of the newest partnerships, the Abenaki Heritage Garden in Burlington’s Intervale will be introduced.
Ashley Glenn (William L. Brown Center - Missouri Botanical Garden) is the manager of the Sacred Seeds program, coordinating conservation and cultural preservation efforts on a local level worldwide.
For more information about the Sacred Seeds program, visit the web site!
Sara Newmark (Sustainability Manager at New Chapter, Brattleboro) works to ensure that all actions by New Chapter
live up to their high standards of ecological stewardship, from product sourcing and packaging, to philanthropic efforts
such as Sacred Seeds.
2010 Thursdays at the Intervale!
THANK YOU to everyone whose hard work made Thursdays at the Intervale possible: Thursdays planning committee members Christine Ellis, Jessica Hyman, Sara Novak, and Mara Welton; our wonderful interns Jackie LeBlanc and Jessica Avison; our amazing volunteers, especially Mark Weber, Melissa Meece, Carolynne & Deane Wang, Mary Hennessy, Molly Turner, Steven Le, Erica Goldberg, and Alexandra Adams; the Intervale Center Board of Directors; our friends at American Flatbread: Rob Downey, Tracy Howard, Mike Milletich, Brian Sheehan, Luke Montague, Andrew Rowan, and Greg Swain; Slow Food Vermont, especially Mara & Spencer Welton and Pam Chomsky-Higgins; Maree Gaetani, Sue Chayer, and Ellen Desjardin at Gardener’s Supply Company; Meg Klepack and Caroline Homan at City Market; Charlie Nardozzi; Advance Music; Roger Charlebois and Joe Senesec at R. R. Charlebois, Inc.; and to the many, many more who make this such an extraordinary event series!
Check out our photo albums!
More events around the Intervale…
VERMONT BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION WORKSHOPS
The Vermont Beekeepers Association represents more than 1,200 beekeeper with a total of 9,000 hives producing about 700,000 pounds of honey per year. The association's springtime workshop series is free and open to the public.
Vermont Beekeepers Association workshop schedule
GARDENER'S SUPPLY WORKSHOPS
Gardener’s Supply Company offers educational seminars each spring. Seminars feature nationally-renowned gardening experts, as well as some of our favorite local gardening gurus. They’ll share tips, techniques and strategies on a wide variety of gardening topics that will enhance the repertoire of the beginner and expert gardener alike.
Click here for a full listing and description of all seminars. All seminars will take place at the Intervale store location. Seating in the our seminar room is limited, so please call early to pre-register, as we expect the programs to sell out early. To pre-register, call the store at (802) 660-3505.
Ongoing Activities
Daily
Free trail maps and nature brochures. Pick one up at the entrance to the Ethan Allen Homestead Museum or visit www.WVPD.org
Year-round
Bird Monitoring
Find out how to enter sightings through the E-bird web site. Contact Amy Cantor at
Wildlife tracking
On-going training with Keeping Track throughout the year. Call 863-5744 or 434-7000.
Picnic Under Cover
Picnic shelter for rental at the Ethan Allen Homestead for group events. Call 863-5744.
May to October
Invasive Species Removal
Join others to remove nuisance plants from the parks, May to August. Call 863-5744.
Ethan’s Secret Forest
Learn how early settlers enjoyed recreation as part of daily work at the Ethan Allen Homestead. Children and adults. Call 865-4556 for information.
All seasons by reservation
Umiak Group Tours
Start at the Ethan Allen Homestead and paddle to Lake Champlain. Call Umiak Outfitters at 253-2317.
Learn about flowers, butterflies and frogs at the Ethan Allen Homestead
For families with young children. Call the VNA Family Room at 864-0377.
Burlington Area Community Gardens
Garden space for rent to grow your own vegetables and flowers at the Ethan Allen Homestead and the Tommy Thompson Community Gardens on Intervale Road. Call Lisa Coven at 863-0420.