Tag: Upcoming events for Buffalo area

The 12th annual World on Your Plate conference will be held Friday and Saturday, Oct. 9 and 10 in the Wick Campus Center at Daemen College, 4380 Main St., Amherst. Hours are 7 – 9:30 p.m. Friday and 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday. This year’s conference will celebrate the International Year of Soil. Jonathan Bloom, author of American Wasteland, will speak on “The Food Not Eaten” on Friday. Rowen White from SeedSavers will speak on “Seeds – Components to…...

Orleans County Cornell Cooperative Extensive Master Gardeners will hold their fall education series at the Orleans County 4-H Fairgrounds, 12690 NY-31, Albion. To register for classes contact Kim Hazel at (585) 798-4265, ext. 26 or mgorleanscce@cornell.edu. The classes will be: Basic tree identification 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19 – Harrington Classroom in the Education Center at the Orleans County 4-H Fairgrounds The cost is $5. Bring the whole family and enjoy a walk through the Orleans County Cornell Cooperative Extension’s grounds, followed by…...

Lockwood’s Greenhouses is holding a series of hands-on workshops at the garden center, 4484 Clark St., Hamburg. A favorite from past years is making a pumpkin centerpiece at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24. Lockwood’s has grown many specialty pumpkins for this project, where succulents are attached to the pumpkin. It will last all autumn– and beyond. The succulents can be transplanted into a pot to continue growing as houseplants. The class includes instruction, plants, pumpkins and care sheet. The class…...

How do you plan an event that requires rain when you can’t predict the weather? You invite folks to sign up if they are interested, then call them when the cool and rainy conditions needed are present and the mushrooms produced. Those are the plans of the Audubon Nature Center for their Fall Mushroom Walk, an event part of their Taste of Nature Series. The workshop will be at the Audubon Nature Center, 1600 Riverside Rd, one-quarter mile east of Route…...

Rummage through your closet and grab an old shirt and pair of pants to build your own scarecrow during Oktoberfest from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 at Mischler’s Florist and Greenhouses, 118 S. Forest Rd.. Williamsville. You supply the old clothes and they will provide the rest of the materials. Mischler’s Greenhouse associates will be on hand to assist you if needed. Bring your child or grandchild to share in this unique Oktoberfest experience. While you’re at…...

by Connie Oswald Stofko There was a time when some farmers had their own forge where they could make their own tools or even make spare parts to repair their tractors. That’s why blacksmithing demonstrations are included at the annual rally of the Western New York Gas and Steam Engine Association, which features vintage farm equipment powered by steam and gas. The rally will be held from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 10 through 13 at…...