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Events
Plant Sales where you can find Grow Wild!
September 20
Grow Native! Native Plant Festival and Sale
Montezuma Wetlands Complex
9:00am-3:00pm
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Meadow Restoration Walk and Talk
with Deanna English
Founder and Owner of Grow Wild
August 16
10:00 AM- 11:30 AM
Grow Wild! A Native Plant Nursery
245 Speed Hill Rd. Brooktondale, NY 14817
Take a walk in the Grow Wild! meadow and learn about the process, challenges, surprises and joys of restoring a section of a farm field to a meadow.
The meadow has been restored in sections and ranges from one to five years old. During the walk you will observe how meadow projects change over time and how observing and interacting with your meadow can make a big difference. Other less intrusive field management strategies are in place in other areas we will see that are also generating some success in increasing diversity,
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Garden Design Workshop
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
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Self-Guided Land Tour
June 14
9:00 am-6:00 pm
Grow Wild! A Native Plant Nursery
245 Speed Hill Rd. Brooktondale, NY 14817
In collaboration with Tompkins County Pollinators Pathway, Busy Bee Ecological Designs, and CCE Master Gardeners
Garden Design Workshop
2 PM- 4 PM
Come join us to learn about garden design ideas for planting with native plants.
Work with Mary Martin, Marian Glenn and Brandon Hoak as they answer questions and talk about garden design.
Meet representatives from Tompkins Pollinator Pathways and the CCE Master Gardener native plant group.
Get your garden on the Pollinator Pathways map and learn about becoming a Master Gardener.
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Self-Guided Land Tour
9:00 AM-6:00 PM.
Take a self-guided tour around the Grow Wild! land to observe and interact with restoration projects and native plant gardens that are being integrated into the landscape.
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September Events
September 6
Wetland Planting
Grow Wild! Plant Nursery
10:00 A.M.- Noon
Learn about the wetland project and help us continue the restoration project by planting wetland plants.
September 13
Matrix Planting
Grow Wild! Plant Nursery
10:00 A.M.- Noon
We're planting a Matrix inspired demonstration garden. Come and help us plant our first Matrix garden.
Learn more about Matrix planting here.
September 20
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge Event
9:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.
Join us at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge for the
BEE SMART: Grow Native! Native Plant Festival and Sale
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An Evening of Mothing
With Ash Ferlito
July 12
9:00 PM - 1:00 AM
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.
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