An After Hours Nature Walk with Naomi Cobb
Fee: Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.
Registration: Pre-registration is required, please email us at info@lyndensculpturegarden.org.

When was the last time you walked outside without a flashlight? What nocturnal animals can be heard or even seen in the evening? How is our sensory experience altered by the loss of daylight vision? Naturalist Naomi Cobb invites you to explore the Lynden Sculpture Garden as it turns from dusk to dark. She will guide you safely through the back acres, introducing you to the mysteries and unique features of outdoor life after dark.

Fee: Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.
Registration: Pre-registration is not required, but it helps us to plan if we know you are coming (email us at info@lyndensculpturegarden.org.)

The Lynden Sculpture Garden is recognized for its art and landscaped beauty, and most visitors confine their walks to the lawns and formal gardens. However, the 40 acres that make up Lynden include meadows with native plants and trees, ponds that support a huge array of aquatic life, and thickets filled with nesting activity and shelter. Numerous birds, insects and mammals are sighted each day.

Come explore the hidden natural treasures of this unique sanctuary with naturalist Naomi Cobb. Each month we will visit the back acres, observing what the seasons bring, and locating evidence of the abundant life that is there. Wear good hiking shoes, dress for the weather, and bring your curiosity and wonder.

Don't miss Lynden by Night, our after hours nature walk with Naomi Cobb.

A Presentation by Bruno R. Follador, Biodynamic Researcher and Consultant and Angela L. Curtes, Land Preservation Consultant

Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

This presentation is designed for home gardeners of all ages who are ready to take composting to the next level. Lynden began working with the presenters during the development of Emilie Clark’s Sweet Corruptions. When it came time to work with Urban Underground to plant the pilot garden next to Clark’s Research Station, we hauled in some of the compost made in East Troy, and Clark has included information on the compost in her station.

As home growers know, good soil is critical to the success of a backyard garden. But quality of soil is also a crucial foundation for healthy ecosystems, food systems and quality of life conditions for the future of humanity. This presentation will explore how to create or improve and enhance your existing compost, while also further exploring the deeper meaning and context of soil fertility and garden ecology.
We will also introduce a relatively new method of composting that can be implemented on a backyard garden scale that uses a hot controlled fermentation process that rapidly transforms materials into a high quality compost that promotes and builds soil structure and fertility.

About the Presenters

Bruno R. Follador, Biodynamic Researcher and Consultant
Bruno R. Follador was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil where he studied geography at the University of Sao Paulo (USP). He received his training in biodynamic gardening and beekeeping at the Pfeiffer Center, NY. For the last three years he was one of the researchers and consultants at the Ludolf Andreas Lab for Soil Fertility at Andreashof, a biodynamic farm in Germany, where he worked with compost and chromatography. Currently, he divides his time between Brazil and the U.S.A where he is consulting at different farms.

Angela Curtes, Land Preservation Consultant
For over 20 years, Curtes has worked in the fields of environmental and wilderness education, and natural area and farmland preservation. She graduated from Prescott College, Arizona in 1992 with two BA’s in Environmental Studies and Alternative Education. She co-founded and for eight years co-directed Common Earth: Educational Adventures of the Earth and Mind in Marin, California, leading women and girls of diverse economic and cultural backgrounds into wilderness settings to build leadership and personal skills, and awareness of cultural and natural history. During this time she also worked full-time as the Education Director of the Pacific Environment and Resources Center (PERC), an international non-profit, directing and teaching K-12 global environmental education programs to schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2000, she moved back home to her family’s farm in southeast Wisconsin and worked for over seven years for the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust as their lands specialist and assistant director, guiding natural area and farmland preservation efforts. From 2008 to 2012, she was the acting executive director of the Yggdrasil Land Foundation, a national land trust working to preserve organic and biodynamic farms. Since early 2012, she has worked for Skylark, Inc. as its lands director to develop and implement a land preservation strategy to protect over 800 acres for sustainable, non-chemical agriculture. Her interest in biodynamic agriculture led to a two-month intensive study in Germany, under mentors Roland Ulrich and Bruno Follador, where she learned a hot controlled fermentation compost method and chromatography. In June 2012 she implemented a farm-scale compost pilot project in East Troy, Wisconsin and set up a chromatography lab to test base farm soils and compost qualities.

Fee: Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.
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What better way to experience Lynden in the winter than by lantern light? Join Jeremy Stepien in the art studio beginning at 3 pm for this popular annual family workshop to make a lantern (or bring your own). Visitors of all ages can enjoy designing and decorating lanterns made from recycled jars and tea light candles. Embellishments include tissue paper collage, punched-tin lids, and reeds and wires (for handles). Make your own or work together to create a lantern for your group.

At 5 pm we embark on a lantern-lit walk through the garden, led by naturalist Naomi Cobb. She will guide you safely through Lynden's back acres, introducing you to the mysteries and unique features of outdoor life after dark. We'll end with a bonfire and hot cider.

The garden will open at noon as usual; the walk will begin at 5 pm.

Registration for this workshop is now CLOSED. Sign up for our e-list for information on future workshops.

Fee: $425/$399 Lynden and All Hands BoatWorks members. This is the fee for a team of two. All materials are included and you keep the boat you make.

Registration: This workshop is ideally suited for one adult and one child (ages 10-17) or two adults. Space is limited to four teams. Advance registration and payment in full is required.

Have you ever dreamed of building your own boat, but didn’t know where to start? Have you ever wished that you could build something with your partner, child or grandchild that would make a lasting memory? Enroll in this introduction to boatbuilding workshop and learn new craft skills as you and your teammate build a handsome, 15-foot plywood canoe that will be ready to launch when the ice melts in the spring. We’ll use common tools and materials and discover a new uncommon language as we cut and assemble the frames, gussets, gunwales, and chines. No previous experience necessary.

As the boat’s designer says, “Nothing, absolutely nothing, conveys the joy of being afloat quite so purely as a light paddling boat.”

About All Hands BoatWorks
All Hands BoatWorks is a Milwaukee nonprofit organization that uses wooden boatbuilding as a means to support positive youth development, education, and workforce preparation.