POLLINATOR PATHWAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY

JUNE 2025 MEETING AGENDA

DATE:            6/16/25

TIME:            5:30-6:30 PM

LOCATION: USDA Building, 109 Professional Drive, Unit B

MC: Melissa Jordan, Co-Chair

SECRETARY: Melissa or other.  Denise Greene absent.

(5:30 PM) MISSION/GUEST INTROS: Peter Danforth (LCCD)

(5:35 PM – 5:45 PM) UPDATES:

ROWAN DODGE:  Green-up day at Stowe High School.  Other youth interest/activities.

MELISSA JORDAN:  Next meeting date

1.  Stowe networking with Stowe Land Trust & Trapp Resort

2.  Per Denise Greene (absent):  Oxbow PPLC plot is in progress, seeds were planted, plants are going in (cut-leaf cone flower seedlings) and the PPLC sign is up.  If anyone wants to go visit there is a section seeded in with a butterfly hummingbird mix June 5, feel free pull some weeds, tour the other gardens and walk down to see the tree planting and new growth.

3.  Per Denise Greene:  Elsa French Park weeded and Golden Alexanders and Zizia Aurea, park bench added compliments of the Village Improvement Committee; Hyde Park Town Office gardens weeded.

4.  Potluck (In Morrisville or another town or a member’s home).  Maybe begin with a garden tour. Thoughts?

5.  Rocktoberfest tabling event:  Stephanie Zuccarello – pollinator dress-up and butterfly garden.  Other dress-up volunteers?

(5:46 – 6:00 PM) PETER DANFORTH: 

1.  Re-imagining the Oxbow. 

- Summary availability

- Friends of the Oxbow

2.  Lamoille Conservation Commission events/grant updates, need for volunteers?

3.  Lamoille County Field Days tabling event:  Hours/shifts?  Set up at 8 AM, take down 6 PM, Friday 7/18-Sunday 7/20.  Signage, handouts, raffle item?  Sign-up sheet, sell signs?

(6:00 – 6:05 PM)  MARTHA BATTLE:  Morrisville Association of Culture and Commerce (MACC) activities, Morrisville.

(6:06 – 6:11 PM)  NANCY OETZEL & DEB ADAMS:   Pollinator Celebration – VT EcoLabs & Shelburne Farms.

(6:12 – 6:17 PM)  OLIVE YIN & MARTHA BATTLE:  Wing Center Pollinator Garden update.

(6:18 – 6:20 PM)  SHERRY MORRISON:  Regalia Biofungicide update

(6:21 – 6:25 PM)  HIGHLIGHTS FROM MEMBER GARDENERS: 

1.  Does anyone have pictures and stories to share? 

2.  Is anyone planting native plants in pots?

(6:26 PM) OTHER:  Deb Adams:  Vinegar solution re. Ants and blue worms

(6:30 PM) END