From our friends at the New London Maritime Society, there are two events of interest, both featuring Maggie Jones, Director of the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, as speaker: The Third Thursday Lecture on January 21, 2010, 6:30-8:00pm, is entitled “Winter Birding Along the Shore,” Admission $10 for non-members of NLMS, sponsored by the New London [...]
Entries Categorized as 'conservation'
Flowers not blooming in January? Try this Winter Bird Tour:
January 17, 2010
September 2009 Meeting
October 14, 2009
The September meeting was a wonderful success with a presentation by Peter Alden. He inspired all of us to be vigilant in our guard against invasive species. Even some of the beautiful plants like porcelain berry take over and crowd out our native plants. Ann Sargent brought in a succulent that she has had for [...]
F.R.E.S.H. Fall Newsletter
September 24, 2009
The Mystic Garden Club has donated funds to FRESH of New London for several years now. In fact, we were one of the founding groups with a large initial donation when FRESH was getting started. Saturday, September 19th, FRESH held a well attended party at it’s community garden in New London, to celebrate its 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Please have a look [...]
Global Water Shortage
May 14, 2009
http://magazine.angieslist.com/story/global-water-shortage-turns-local
Asian Longhorn Bark Beetle
March 24, 2009
Joan Allen from UConn Home And Garden Education Center will be speaking to our club on May 25, 2010 on the devastation caused by this preditor insect. You can read more in this New York Times Article. A photo of the Asian Bark Beetle
Earth Friendly
November 16, 2008
The Mystic Garden club is taking steps to be friendly to the environment. Barbara Tacy has been presenting information on packaging, helping us to differentiate between packaging which is recyclable and which is not. Members are encouraged to stop purchasing items which are encased in non-recyclable materials. The impermeable plastic wrapping called “clamshell” packaging is [...]
Going Green with fewer Catalogs
March 25, 2008
If you are overwhelmed with catalogs and hate to have all that paper wasted you can visit www.catalogchoice.org to choose which catalog mailing lists you’d like to be removed from.
Going Green – Reusable Shopping Bags
October 14, 2007
It’s not surprising that the plethora of plastic shopping bags is not good for the environment. I have been reusing my plastic bags whenever I go to a wholesale club but other than that they collect in my kitchen at a prodigious rate. So I decided to buy some reusable shopping bags. I have been [...]