Facebook Brine Garden page Monday: Anne Raver talk on her FAVES at the Horticultural Society “closer to home, Duncan and Julia Brine, who have created six acres of wild, painterly gardens in Pawling, NY.? “   The Horticultural Society of New York www.hsny.org April 11, 2011 Anne’s Favorites: Bill Noble and Jim Tatum in their [...]

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The Brine Garden is a chapter of this beautiful new book. “The line between art and nature has never seemed so blurred as it is in the Brine Garden.” — Gardens of the Hudson Valley Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry Gardens of the Hudson Valley, by co-writers Susan Lowry and Nancy Berner,  is the topic [...]

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Charles A. Birnbaum: The Value of View April 16, 2011 symposium at Olana, Framing the Viewshed: The Transformative Power of Art and Landscape in the Hudson Valley.     For more information please check out our Brine Garden page

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A wonderful community experience: October 23, 11am-5pm and October 24, 1pm-4pm, at the Frances Ryan Thomas Memorial Center of Christ Church on Quaker Hill in Pawling, NY. Join the Brines and other FrOGS to celebrate the diverse beauty of our local, majestic wetland. Enjoy work by local artists and artisans, educational displays, food, and activities. [...]

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How Did New York City Become a Diverse Ecological Hot Spot? — New York Magazine – Annotated   Incredibly, scientists are starting to view New York as an ecological hot spot—more diverse and richer in nature than the suburbs and rural counties that surround it.   “People think of the rural as this pristine, untouched [...]

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