Wildflower Festival
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Wildflower & Music Festival
Sunday, May 19, 2013
10 am to 5 pm
Suggested donation $5 per person, children under 12 free.
Please leave your dogs at home!
Parking is free on festival day, and there is a free shuttle between the North parking lot and the festival entrance. (There will not be a shuttle from Civic Stadium for the Wildflower Festival)
Set aside Sunday, May 19th for a day of wildflowers, music, food, crafts, and microscopes! You don’t have to be a plant expert to love our upcoming Wildflower & Music Festival. The festival is loaded with fun things to do for everyone in the family. As many as three to four hundred species of wildflowers will be on display, from Anemones to Vancouveria! Collected and organized for attendees to get a close look, top botanists of the region will be on hand to answer questions. For an even closer look, guests can use on-site microscopes. Nectar glands at the base of the petals really glisten at 100X magnification!
Bring your dancing shoes, because there will be great live music to amplify this festive frolic in the meadow. Come shop for a wide variety of plants, baked goods, and crafts at the wide array of vendor booths, with proceeds supporting the Arboretum’s work in habitat restoration and environmental education. A whole tent full of kids’ activities keeps even the tiny ones entertained!
Bring the entire family (except the dog) to enjoy the festival as well as explore nearby nature trails. Expert nature guides will weave folks through the trails, providing more information about the Arboretum’s ecology and history.
Plant Sale
Did you know that our Plant Sale booth is 
fueled entirely by donations? Swing by the Arboretum on Saturday, May 18th to drop off native plants, perennials, houseplants, flowering plants, or any other potted-up greenery that is looking for a home–as long as it’s not an invasive species*, of course. The Wildflower Festival is not only a great event for educating the community about the wonders of the outdoors, but it’s one of the biggest fundraisers of the year for Mount Pisgah Arboretum. We couldn’t keep our trail maintenance, environmental education, and habitat restoration programs going without your help!
Keep an eye out, and a spot in your garden, for a wide variety of Tomatoes and Peppers that will be available at the Plant Sale again this year!
*Link to list of invasive species for our region.
Music
Bring your dancing shoes! We have a great line-up:
4pm: Kudana
3pm: Satori Bob
2pm: Hot Milk
1pm: My Father’s Ghost
Noon: GEO 4
11am: The Dirty Turnips
10am: Low Tide Drifters
Booths
Whether you’re hungry for lunch, looking for something pretty, eager to improve your garden, or out to learn more about our local non-profits, the Wildflower Festival has got the booths for you!
Plant Vendors:
Doak Creek Nursery
Lou Westphal
Fern Ridge Gardens
Fox Hollow Creek Nursery
Friends of Buford Park
Pierce St. Gardens
White Oak Farms
Food Vendors:
Bates Steak House
Brew Dr. Kombucha
Cafe Mam
Hideaway Bakery-Mazzi
Holy Cow
Oriental Village
Sylvan Ridge Winery
Viva Vegetarian Grill
Art Vendors:
Charting Nature
Earth-Dyed
Fridays at the Farm
Linda Ann Vorobik
Navillus Press-William Sullivan (books)
Patricia Donahue
Sparhawk Farms
Wear Me Jewels
Whistle Post Pottery
Wooden Apple Woodturning
Guided Walks
Join some delightful experts on the natural history of Mount Pisgah for guided walks during the Wildflower & Music Festival! This is a great opportunity to learn about the plants, animals, and other wild creatures that abound along the trails.
Noon Dan Thomas
1pm Dave Wagner
1:30pm Glenn Miller (Weed Walk)
2pm Bruce Newhouse
3pm Chris Roth & John Koenig
3:30pm Bruce Newhouse (Weed Walk)
4pm Chris Orsinger
Art in Nature
Art in Nature is back this year! Artists will be using natural materials creatively woven into the landscape. Be sure to look at the back of your program for a map on the Art in Nature Trail!
Interested in being a featured artist? Contact Amelia Tyson, (720) 308-9534 or atyson@uoregon.edu. Art in Nature_flyer
Volunteer
Mount Pisgah Arboretum’s annual Wildflower & Music Festival is made possible by a wonderful group of volunteers. Do you have a couple hours to share? Here is an overview of the many roles available!
Before the Festival:
* Put up posters around town to promote the event.
* Help set up booths and tables on Saturday, May 18th.
* Decorate the booths and entryway on Saturday, May 18–bring your creative ideas!
* Set up the spread of donated food for all the Saturday volunteers.
* Cook up some wonderful treats for the bake sale! (We can’t take anything that needs refrigeration, such as custards or whipped cream, but cookies, brownies, cupcakes, muffins, breads are all perfect–why not host a baking party with your friends? Bring all contributions to the booth on the day of the festival)
* Donate plants for the plant sale! (We can’t accept invasive species; click here for the invasive species list.)
On Festival Day:
* Keeping the traffic flowing smoothly in the parking lots–a great job for a group or a club.
* Greeting visitors, renewing people’s memberships, collecting donations, counting heads and stamping hands as folks first come into the festival.
* Signing in your fellow volunteers and showing them how to get to their positions.
* Selling festival t-shirts & posters, nature books & field guides, and monitoring the free raffle.
* Leading nature crafts for kids, helping children use microscopes, and handing out goodies as the “pocket lady.”
* The ever-popular plant sale! Answering questions as folks shop for plants; adding up purchases or taking money as a cashier; supervising the plant holding booth; and helping folks carry plants out to their cars.
* Delicious bake sale! Arrange and sell all the donated baked goods, or add up the totals and make change.
After the Festival:
* Take down canopies and tables on Monday, May 20.
Please call Charlotte at 541-747-3817 or email mtpisgah@efn.org to find out more or to sign up for your position. Volunteers get free entrance to the festival, a souvenir poster, and the fun of working with a great team to host one of the best parties springtime has to offer!
Co-hosts and Sponsors
The Wildflower Festival is co-hosted by the Native Plant Society of Oregon and Lane Community College.
Many thanks to our splendid Sponsors:
