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Events
Ecological Restoration? You Can Do It Too
Talk
April 15
7pm
Finger Lakes Native Plant Society
Nevin Center Cornell Botanic Garden
You don’t have to be an expert to create a meadow! Deanna will take you on a journey through her continuing efforts to restore an old farm field to a diverse meadow ecosystem. Along with a description of the how tos of this process and the resources she has used, the talk will include the rewards, surprises, challenges, frustrations and utter confusion that she has experienced. This technique can be scaled up or down to meet the land steward’s needs.
Steve Kress Warbler Walk
May 13
8am-11am
Grow Wild! A Native Plant Nursery
245 Speed Hill Rd. Brooktondale, NY 14817
You must register to attend.
Please email deannagrowwild@gmail.com to register
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​STEPHEN KRESS is the founder of National Audubon Society’s Project Puffin and a Visiting Fellow of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. He previously served as Vice-President for Bird Conservation for the National Audubon Society and Director of the Hog Island Audubon Camp in Bremen. He is author of many books on seabirds, bird watching, gardening for birds and teaches Spring Ornithology for the Cayuga Bird Club.
An Evening of Mothing
With Ash Ferlito
July 12
Time to be Determined
Grow Wild! A Native Plant Nursery
245 Speed Hill Rd. Brooktondale, NY 14817
Ash Ferlito is an artist whose practice emerges from deep engagement with the natural world, particularly through the observation of moths and birds. Her multidisciplinary work—spanning painting, sculpture, printmaking, and experimental rewilding gardening—invites wonder, reorients perception, and proposes new ways of gathering and seeing.
Central to her practice are mothing events, where she constructs sculptural stations illuminated by specialized lights to attract nocturnal insects. Ferlito records the moths and other species that appear. The project serves dual purposes—celebrating biodiversity through communal observation while generating raw material for her standalone paintings and cyanotype prints, which preserve the insects’ ephemeral arrangements as ethereal, constellation-like impressions.
Ferlito has exhibited widely across the United States and internationally, including at the South Utah Art Museum (UT), Concord Center for the Visual Arts (MA), Wells College (NY), and The Barn Project (ME). Her residencies include The Montello Foundation (NV), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (ME), Vermont Studio Center (VT), and NYC Audubon at Governors Island (NY). She has several ongoing collaborative projects: MOTH BALL, an annual mothing-art event; The Marshy Garden, a pollinator habitat at The Soil Factory (Ithaca, NY); and the Skowhegan Bird Club, a bird club for artists.
Ferlito holds an MFA from the Tyler School of Art (PA) and a BA from Yale University (CT). Born and raised in California, she now lives and works in Ithaca, NY.
Plant Sales where you can find Grow Wild!
May 10
Wild Ones Central NY Chapter
(Habitat Gardening in Central New York)
Westvale, NY
9am-noon
May 16
Spring Garden Fair and Plant Sale
Ithaca, NY
Ithaca Farmers Market
1:00pm-7:00pm
May 31
Hector Plant Sale
Hector, NY
Hector Fair Grounds
10:00am-3:00pm
September 20
Grow Native! Native Plant Festival and Sale
Montezuma Wetlands Complex
9:00am-3:00pm
Garden Design Workshop
June 14
2:00pm-4:00pm
Grow Wild! A Native Plant Nursery
245 Speed Hill Rd. Brooktondale, NY 14817
In collaboration with Tompkins County Pollinators Pathway and Busy Bee Ecological Designs
Meadow Restoration Walk and Talk
With Deanna English
Founder and Owner of Grow Wild
August -
Date and Time to be determined
Grow Wild! A Native Plant Nursery
245 Speed Hill Rd. Brooktondale, NY 14817
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