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Trees are Focus of Manitoga Volunteer Landscape Day This Saturday
If you love trees and want to learn more about their care and the role they play in the environment, join arborist Chris Galligan and friends of Manitoga this Saturday, March 29 at Manitoga/The Russel Wright Design Center in Garrison.
Chris Galligan, a member of Manitoga's Woodland Landscape Council, will kick things off promptly at 11am with some words of wisdom about caring for trees in the Hudson Highlands, followed by a picnicstyle lunch. Volunteers will then divide up into teams and work together until 4pm pruning, cutting and clearing the quarry garden, one of the most beautiful areas of the 75-acre site that annually welcomes thousands of hikers, tourists and day-campers.
Manitoga is a woodland garden that uses the materials of the place. Wright's achievement at Manitoga was to explain the forest, its structure and its processes in a sensual and experiential way through a thoughtful and skillfully constructed series of paths. The trees at Manitoga are the canopy for Russel Wright's landscape at Manitoga.
"When a place is understood, preserved, repaired and celebrated as an integrated whole, it can be experienced as powerful and memorable," says Landscape Architect Carol Franklin, Wright's cousin and author of the Manitoga Design Management Guide.
To register for this event, email volunteer@russelwrightcenter.org or call the Manitoga office at 845-424-3812. To learn more about other volunteer opportunities and programs at Manitoga, visit www.russelwrightcenter.org.
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