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A Virtual Lecture with Ron and Jennifer Kujawski Tickets $10, Registration required. Though planning, preparation, and planting a vegetable garden takes some effort, the work, and rewards, have just begun. This presentation will look at post-planting efforts to sustain the garden and reap the rewards through the growing season. Topics covered include: summer maintenance, pest […]
THIS PARTY IS SOLD OUT. We are delighted to announce that we will celebrate Twilight in the Garden this year on Saturday, June 26, 2021, 5:30-7:30pm (Rain Date: Sunday June 27, 4:30-6:30) Our neighbor, the Austerlitz Historical Society, has graciously offered the Old Austerlitz grounds for this annual kickoff to the summer season. There will […]
We proudly present our Sixth annual Members’ Art Show featuring works made by our talented Academy community. After the long closure due to the pandemic the Gallery at Spencertown Academy is opening its doors again with this popular show. We have a wide range of work from talented regional artists ~ sculpture, painting, photographs, mixed […]
Free on Zoom: Registration required. Presented in collaboration with the Austerlitz Climate Smart Task Force When her beekeeping father suddenly passed away in 2019, singer/songwriter/activist Sheri Bauer went home to Climax, NY, to help her mother close up the 80-year old family business, Twin Spruce Apiaries. As a neighboring beekeeper was taking away the last […]
Registration required: tickets $10 A live presentation/demonstration in the Spencertown Town Park Pavilion. A professional chef for 35 years, Linda tackles the sometimes overwhelming task of preserving the bounty of the garden for the home gardener/cook. The basics of canning, fermentation and freezing safely while preserving flavor will be discussed and demonstrated. Picnic table seating […]
The market will take place, as always, on the Green in the center of Spencertown. It will showcase vendors offering plants, home and garden furnishings, birdhouses, antiques, garden books, and expert garden advice, plus shoppers will find bargains on choice garden items and accessories at the Academy’s White Elephant Booth. A percentage of all sales […]
The 16th Annual Hidden Gardens Tour and Garden Market on the Green had to be canceled for 2020 because of the pandemic. Not knowing exactly how opening up the county would evolve, we passed up the month of June this year and opted to schedule our event for later in the summer, on Saturday, August […]
This year’s botanical show features scenes of tabletops and other settings where flowers, fruits and food items provide glimpses into daily life that can be restful, playful or downright intriguing! Seven artists with very distinct styles will present their visions of peaceful—and sometimes challenging—still-life renderings. Experience the interplay of vegetable cuttings and peelings; the lighthearted […]
A live presentation at Spencertown Park Pavilion with Donna Peterson, a Horticulture Educator and Certified Master Gardener with Cornell Cooperative Extension since 1994. Donna tells us how to get a jump on next year's garden by putting this year's flower and vegetable garden to bed the right way! Learn what to cut back (and when) […]
In a world that seems more and more fractured and traumatized by a pandemic, the idea of a show focusing on whimsy seemed a necessity for the soul. Whimsy can be defined in many ways; capricious, fanciful, fantastical, imaginative and unpredictable are just a few words that come to mind. We all need a little […]
We are trying our hand at an opening reception for the first time in a very long while. Refreshments will be served outside, the number of visitors in the Gallery at one time, will be limited. Join us for a glass of wine, snacks and conversation. View this fantastical art work that is sure to […]
Two authors will discuss their historical fiction with Daphne Kalotay, prize-winning author of short stories and novels (Russian Winter; Sight Reading; Blue Hours). Passage West tells the story of a Punjabi family, their Mexican in-laws and their Japanese neighbors at the onset of World War I in California. Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen fictionalizes […]