June 19, 2019 - Wednesday 6:30 - 8:00 pm Vermont Zen Center Garden Tour 480 Thomas Road Shelburne, VT  05482     Please join us for a tour of the gardens and grounds at the Vermont Zen Center.   Take a break and enjoy this beautiful location with VNLA friends and colleagues .  Light refreshments…

July 16, 2019 6:30 - 8:00 pm Cobble Creek Nursery 991 Tyler Bridge Road Bristol, VT  05443   Please join owner John Padua for a plant ID refresher on woody plants as we tour Cobble Creek Nursery.  We hope you can join us for a fun evening of  "plant talk"!   Light refreshments will be served. …

2019 SUMMER MEETING & TRADE SHOW August 1, 2019 Fairfax Perennial Farm 7 Blackberry Hill Road Fairfax, VT  05454 PRE-REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. WALK-IN REGISTRATION WILL BE AVAILABLE. PROGRAM Our keynote speaker is Larry Weaner.  Larry has been creating native landscapes since 1977. He founded Larry Weaner Landscape Associates in 1982 and has gained a national…

September 17, 2019 6:00 - 7:30 pm Green Mountain Compost Facility Tour 1042 Redmond Road Williston, VT  05495 We hope you can join us for this tour led by Dan Goossen, the Director of Composting Operations for the Chittenden Solid Waste District.  2019 has brought some big changes to Green Mountain Compost as they have…

October 2, 2019 6:30 - 8:00 pm Oliver Seed Company Tour 26 Sunset Avenue Milton, VT  05468 We hope you can join us for a tour of Oliver Seed Company…

December 10, 2019 5:30- 7:00 pm Zero Gravity Brewery 716 Pine Street Burlington, VT  05401 Please join us for this end of the season gathering with fellow VNLA members, colleagues and friends to talk about the season's ups and downs as we raise a glass and begin to look toward the 2020 season.     Catch up…

January 15, 2020 - 6:30 - 8:30 pm The Double E (formerly Mad Taco) Essex Shoppes & Cinema 21 Essex Way #300 Essex Junction, VT  05453 802-876-7152 With only a few weeks into "winter" we thought it would be fun to try something new!  We hope you can join us for a fun evening of…

  March 24, 2020 - POSTPONED TO A FUTURE DATE 6:00 - 7:30 pm Oliver Seed Company Tour 26 Sunset Avenue Milton, VT  05468 We hope you can join us for a tour of Oliver Seed Company (OSC) led by Steve Hardy.  OSC was established in 1971 and started custom GMF fertilizer and Catamount seed…

April 28, 2020 - Cheers & Beers! - POSTPONED 6:00 - 8:00 pm Zero Gravity Brewery 716 Pine Street Burlington, VT  05401 Please join us for a "start of the season" gathering with fellow VNLA members, colleagues and friends to talk about just how long the winter really was and how quickly the season kicks…

New Directions in the American Landscape (NDAL) Ecology and the Residential Landscape: At Home With Nature - Webinar Series NDAL is presenting a series of live, interactive webinars with a renowned group of instructors, including Douglas Tallamy and Larry Weaner. This series is co-sponsored by the American Horticultural Society, and Wild Ones-Native Plants, Natural Landscapes.  …

August 20, 2020 - 5pm - 8pm Kayak / Canoe Trip on the Lamoille River w/ Vermont Canoe and Kayak 4805 VT Route 15 Jeffersonville, VT  05464 https://vtcanoeandkayak.com/ Rain Date:  August 28, 2020 The VNLA is happy to host a way we can all get a bit of down time, enjoy some amazing VT scenery…