Please join us at the USDA Building at 109 Professional Dr. Suite # 2, Morrisville Vt. 05661

FEBRUARY 2025 PPLC MEETING AGENDA DRAFT

DATE:                             3/24/25

TIME:                    5:30-6:30 PM

LOCATION:           USDA Building, 109 Professional Drive, Unit B

ATTENDEES:

MC:                       Melissa Jordan, Co-Chair SECRETARY:                               Denise Greene, Co-Chair UPDATES:

A.  ​ Denise: Upcoming workshops/speakers includes:

1.    Meet our Native Bees and other Pollinators with Spencer Hardy of the VT Center for Ecostudies.         Spencer leads the VT Wild Bee Survey for the VCE and the Vermont Atlas of Life.           With a vast knowledge of native bees and pollinators, Spencer will help you identify and understand who visits your native pollinator gardens and wildscapes, their habits, favorite foods, and where they want to build their homes. He asked us to list his farm as a resource for native plants. Denise volunteered to contact our web person to add and update the event listing section with the time and venue info. Date and time are: Saturday, April   at 10 am, located at Morristown Centennial Library.

VOLUNTEERS for helping to set up and put away chairs = Olive Ylin, Melissa Jordan. Need more volunteers.

RSVPs = Olive Ylin, Melissa Jordan, Erika Schaper.

2.    Flower show.

B.  ​ Peter: Updates on LCCD events.

1.    Plant the remaining rain garden on South Prospect Street in Hyde Park. Rain garden is ready for more plants. The neighbors have offered to volunteer, but we may have to orchestrate it. Peter suggests a few sources for funding plants as well; a/ Northwood Stewardship Program, b/fundraiser with Prospect St. residents and PPLC, ask LCCD Board to match proceeds from fundraiser, c/Denise will ask HP Village Improvement Committee as well. Peter will coordinate the email with Prospect St. neighbors

and PPLC.

2.    Tabling event. Peter asked us to join him and NRCC with a table at the Lamoille County Field Days the third week of July.

3.    The focus in Morrisville and Oxbow Park for this season is discussion/planning of how to manage flooding; everything upstream is lacking riparian buffering (plants, trees, etc. to absorb flood waters and slow them down). He's organizing a panel discussion/forum to

discuss the issues at Oxbow and the general watershed. Funding is available via program development grants through Clean Water Service Provider (CWISP).

He met with the Johnson Beautification Committee: Kyle Nuse, Adrienne Parker, Blake Parker,Johna Keene, Jo Marian, and Lauren Philie. The committee is working in tandem with Re-Envision Johnson, a public forum that resulted from the flood devastation in downtown

Johnson. PPLC members are encouraged to attend an upcoming meeting. Peter will shared the email contact.

C.  ​ Other Members:

1.    Other tabling events?

a.    Martha suggested Rocktoberfest downtown Morrisville in October.

b.    Denise and Melissa recently received an invitation to table at the annual Pollinator Celebration Day with the Vermont Pollinator Working Group on May 31st at Shelburne Farms from 11:30-3:30. They want to hear from us by March 1, so Denise will email them to reserve. Need to get funds for plants using the ideas from the last meeting.

c.   Olive suggested involving youth like Zoryan Gray from Greensboro and Rowan Dodge from Stowe.

2.    Other Spring events. Is there property in member towns that folks would like to work on this year?

3.    Sherry Morrison: Share info. About Regalia Biofungicide for fruit trees.

4.    MACC: Martha and Morrisville Alliance for Culture and Commerce (MACC) is re-applying for downtown designation and adding more plants for pollinators. She will keep us updated.