An organization of residents of the Town of Penfield, NY
who are concerned about the environment.
Upcoming Events & Education
‘Greening’ Your Landscape with New Fall Cleanup Practices
Once the Autumn foliage spectacle has ended, most homeowners dutifully head outdoors, brandishing rakes and clippers, to engage in the annual ritual known as garden cleanup. Overzealous cleanup has some significant environmental consequences. Audubon, Xerces Society, and the National Wildlife Federation encourages us to adopt new practices that will support our declining pollinators and birds.
Drive Electric EV Car Show
Color Penfield Green joined forces with the Greater Rochester Clean Cities to organize a Drive Electric EV Car Show at the Penfield Community Center. Attendees learned from area experts how to electrify your home with new federal incentives, kids innovation area, food trucks and more!
Enhance Your Existing Landscape and Gardens with Native Plants
Many of us started gardening before we learned how important native plants are for our local ecosystems. How do we enhance our yards to make them more sustainable and resilient yet keep some of our favorite non-native plants? You will learn simple design tips on adding native plants to your garden and landscapes, receive resources on learning more about the benefits of native plants and how they support our pollinators and birds, how to figure out what is native to our Finger Lakes Region and the best places to source them for your yard and gardens.
Plant Based Eating & Reducing Waste
Have you been thinking of trying a plant-based diet but don’t know where to start? This class includes tips on preparing and eating more plant-based foods, a cooking demonstration, and crowd-pleasing recipes. Also, information on composting those food scraps will be shared. Come and join us for a fun and tasty evening and leave with some helpful ideas for adding more plant-based foods to your life. If you took this class previously, great news! We’ll have all new recipes to learn and sample!
Past Events & Education
Inflation Reduction Act 101
Clean Energy Funds for Your Family
Residential financial assistance is available for the purchase of green appliances, ground and air-source heat pumps, electric cars, weatherization projects, and clean energy installations such as solar panels. Come to learn more about what your family may qualify to receive under this ground-breaking IRA program!
Planting & Caring for a New Native Pollinator Garden
This class gave attendees the knowledge on how to start, plant, and care for a new native pollinator garden the first year it is put in. We reviewed preparing a garden site, how to test and amend the soil, and remove grass in an ecologically friendly way. We covered proper planting techniques and care as plants establish this first year.
Rethinking The American Lawn
“Americans love their lawns with a passion rarely seen in other countries; fifty-eight million Americans enthusiastically plant, weed, water, spray, and mow an estimated forty million acres of lawns contributing to the serious environmental problems facing the planet.” Attendees learned more and shared ideas on how we might rethink our lawns and make them more ecologically sustainable.
‘Greening’ Your Landscape with New Fall Cleanup Practices
Once the Autumn foliage spectacle has ended, most homeowners dutifully head outdoors, brandishing rakes and clippers, to engage in the annual ritual known as garden cleanup. Overzealous cleanup has some significant environmental consequences. Audubon, Xerces Society, and the National Wildlife Federation encourages us to adopt new practices that will support our declining pollinators and birds.
Enhance Your Existing Landscape and Gardens with Native Plants
Many of us started gardening before we learned how important native plants are for our local ecosystems. How do we enhance our yards to make them more sustainable and resilient yet keep some of our favorite non-native plants? You will learn simple design tips on adding native plants to your garden and landscapes, receive resources on learning more about the benefits of native plants and how they support our pollinators and birds, how to figure out what is native to our Finger Lakes Region and the best places to source them for your yard and gardens.
Are You Ready for ALL-ELECTRIC Home Heating and Cooling?
Attendees learned about the many great options now available for going ALL-ELECTRIC with your home's heating, cooling, and hot water production needs by installing super high efficiency air-source or ground-source (geothermal) electric heat pump solutions that are available right now and specially designed for our cold weather climate. Attendees also found out how to obtain a no-cost energy assessment of their home.
Electric Cars 101 - Your Guide to EVs
We started with an introduction to EVs and take you through their advantages and disadvantages, considerations in choosing and buying an electric car (including financial incentives and rebates), options for charging them at home or on the road and how they will work for you around town and on long trips away from home. YES, owning an EV IS in your future!
The Art of Native Seed Sowing
Attendees learned about the unique requirements needed for native seed sowing and how to harvest their seed, best time to plant them, and the conditions needed once they germinate. Attendees also created mini-greenhouses out of recycled containers and learn the spring care of seedlings that sprout.
