After a 2 year pandemic hiatus, we're back!!!
Join us at the Boal Mansion in Boalsburg
on Saturday, May 7, 2022
for the Central Pa Native Plant Festival!
10:00 am - 3:00 PM
Mark your calendars and plan on joining us!!
Join us at the Boal Mansion in Boalsburg
on Saturday, May 7, 2022
for the Central Pa Native Plant Festival!
10:00 am - 3:00 PM
Mark your calendars and plan on joining us!!
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Schedule of events
10:00 - 3:00 - Plant Sale - No Early Sales! Check out our list of vendors. 10:00 - 3:00 - Information Tables - get answers to your gardening questions and meet other organizations committed to native plants 11:00 - 2:00 - Live music with folk rock duo Asbury Lane 11:00 - From Dirty Dozen to Birdy Dozen: Replacing Problematic Non-Natives in Your Landscape Learn about twelve of the most invasive plants in the PA nursery trade and a dozen native alternatives to make your landscape more bird and pollinator-friendly. Presented by Chad Clem and Laura Jackson 1:00 - Environmental Yardistry: Incorporating Keystone Plants to Support Biodiversity in Your Yard Join biologist, artist, and Ohio transplant Kristy Gallo as she highlights her efforts to convert her suburban Columbus yard to native prairie. Gallo will touch on her experiences using soil as her canvas to create a space that is both pollinator friendly and pleasing to the eye and spirit. She'll discuss the importance of incorporating keystone plants to support a vast biodiversity within your yard, and detail the techniques she used to create her award-winning native plant garden. Presented by Kristy Gallo - an artist, Biology major and recent transplant to Pennsylvania. Both art and nature have been a passion and a source of sanctuary for Gallo throughout life. Exchanging a paint brush for a spade, soil has become her new canvas. Artistically inspired and environmentally driven, Kristy is committed to protecting and restoring native ecosystems. 
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Plant Vendors:
Click on the buttons below to see what plants will be available. We encourage you to pre-order your plants - simply contact the vendor directly and they will bring your plant with them. We will have a Plant Holding Area where you can safely leave your plants while you shop!! Click here for the complete list of vendors.
Help us promote our event - click here for the poster
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Interested in being a vendor?
Click here for Vendor Information or contact Info@PaNativePlantSociety.org
Click here for Vendor Information or contact Info@PaNativePlantSociety.org
