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Connections programs convey the Trust's goal to connect people to the land around us. Join us!
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7:00 p.m.
"Barn Dance at Charnews Farm"
Join us for an evening of dance -- country, folk, contra, square, waltz and circle dancing at the Barn, at Charnews Farm in Southold.
Dick and Bess Haile, teachers of international folk dancing will lead the way. No partners necessary - fun for the whole family! Bring a picnic dinner beforehand and enjoy sunset at the farm until the dance begins.
$5/person.
Rain or Shine.
Tuesday, August 24
8:30 a.m.
"Seaside Gardening Symposium"
 The Trust is pleased to join Cornell Cooperative Extension in sponsoring their annual Fall Gardening Symposium at Southampton Inn in Southampton Village. Join us for a full day of horticulture programming focused on seaside landscaping, farming, and container gardening. $65/person includes lectures, lunch and garden tour! Registration and info at 631.727.7850 or ctk3@cornell.edu.
10:00 a.m.
"Birding Walk and Mist Net Demo"
 Join us and meet George Rowsom and Jody Levin and learn about the important contributions made by local bird banders. Working in cooperation with the U.S. Dept. of the Interior's Bird Banding Lab, George gathers invaluable data on local and migrating birds. We'll meet at the Dam Pond Maritime Reserve in East Marion. While waiting on the birds, Jody will lead a walk through the trails. $5/person. Rain cancels. Bring binoculars or scope for birding, and we recommend wearing long sleeves and pants for this walk in the woods.
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Don't Miss:
12th Annual
Great Tomato
Taste-Off
at Quail Hill Farm
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Saturday,
September 4 9:00 a.m. - 12 Noon
2010 has been a great year for tomatoes!!!
Join us for what has become the must-attend event over Labor Day weekend!!!
The Great Tomato Taste-Off will feature 58 varieties of tomatoes grown at Quail Hill Farm, Deep Lane, Amagansett.
Varieties include: cherry, paste, and heirloom tomatoes of all shapes, sizes, and colors -- including pink, red, orange, yellow, purple and green.
Visit the tomato laden tables with clipboard in hand, and taste and rate your way through all of them. The 2010 Fact Sheet of tomatoes is online for your early perusal.
$10/person non-farm members, $5/person for farm members (suggested donation). Free for kids under 12.
Heavy rain cancels.
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Now you can find the Peconic Land Trust on Facebook.
Join us online.
In addition to our main Facebook page, we now have pages for Quail Hill Farm, Bridge Gardens and Charnews Farm. Keep up with all the programming and events the Trust has to offer all year long.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Spotlight: Stewardship
Stewardship Staff Takes on
Management Plans with Success
 Along with the regular care and monitoring of our preserves, the Trust's stewardship staff is responsible for creating, managing and updating Management Plans for each of the preserves. A staple of land stewardship, the Management Plan identifies the areas of greatest conservation value and lays out the long-term goals for the property. Plans are needed to protect resources, limit damaging uses, outline an implementation plan, define stewardship responsibilities, create a financial plan, and build public support and credibility.
 As you can imagine, Management Plans are dynamic documents -- over time, conditions change that need to be reflected and the plans updated accordingly. In 2009, the Trust was awarded a grant through the NYS Conservation Partnership Program, administered by the Land Trust Alliance, to update and complete management plans for all of its Preserves -- to date, 89 properties across Long Island. Peter Priolo was hired through funds from this grant as an Intern for this initiative and worked for nine months with South Fork Land Steward Matt Swain and Pam Greene, our VP for Stewardship.
During this past year, Peter inventoried  natural resources, identified plant and wildlife species and provided the ecological background for all of our preserves. Matt oversaw the cultural resource inventory, zoning, regulations, acquisition history and management objectives. Together, with the oversight of Pam Greene, they prepared and updated implementation plans for each property. Their hard work paid off beautifully with a draft Management Plan for all 89 Trust Preserves!
For Peter, who graduated this spring from SUNY Stony Brook Southampton, the internship was a great opportunity to do what he loves in a place that he loves: "The biological diversity of the East End is incredible. Of the various communities, my favorites to explore are the sphagnum bogs because of their highly adapted plants, like the pitcher plant, sundew, fringed orchids, and of course I enjoy a taste of blueberry or cranberry depending on the season!" Peter is now a Research Assistant at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County.
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America's Great Outdoors Initiative
Let Your Ideas Be Heard
 As you may recall from an earlier eNewsletter (April 28, 2010), President Obama launched the America's Great Outdoors Initiative earlier this year to get the public involved in the development of conservation solutions for the 21st Century. Listening sessions have been held across the country. We encourage our supporters to lend their ideas to the conversation. In particular, we need your help to keep the Enhanced Easement Incentives at the forefront of the conversation (it has recently fallen from 1st place to 250th place in the votes). To get private lands conservation back in the picture, we need your votes now! To vote on the easement incentives, as well as other land conservation ideas, click here. (This link will take you to the USDA's idea page for the America's Great Outdoors Initiative focused on land trust issues). And, while you are there, post your own ideas and local examples. Add "land trusts" to your list of tags to make sure that supporters of land trust initiatives see your idea and can promote it.Join us in putting land conservation issues at the forefront of the conversation. |
HARVEST: Wine Auction +  Celebration
of Long Island's East End to benefit the Peconic Land Trust and East End Hospice
September 24 & 25 at Wolffer Estate Vineyard +
Wineries & Fine Homes Across the Region
For all the local wine connoisseurs and land conservationists, please save the date for a very special East End-wide exploration of our local bounty:
HARVEST: Wine Auction +
Celebration of Long Island's East End,
presented by Wine Spectator.
Join us for this historic event as we toast our local wine and local food during a fun-filled weekend in early Autumn!
Friday, September 24:
- 10-Mile Dinners. Ten dinners at private locations with an unforgettable, locally sourced meal, each hosted by a top East End winemaker and exceptional regional chef.
Saturday, September 25:
- The Wine Salon: Intellectually stimulating education programs spanning wine-making & tasting, cooking, sensory explorations and more. Programs will be held at wineries across the East End.
- Festival Tasting of Long Island's Bounty: Grand tasting of LI wines and small plates of local, seasonal dishes by East End chefs partnered with local farmers and food artisans. Silent auction of regional treasures. Over 25 wineries are participating!
- Gala Dinner & Wine Auction of Long Island Wine: A world class farm-to-table dinner created by premier East End chefs Keith Luce, Gerry Hayden & Claudia Fleming; and a live auction of Long Island wines and experiences under the direction of Morrell & Co Fine Wine Auctions and Zachy's Wine Auctions.
Sponsors include: The Corcoran Group, Brown Harris Stevens, Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty,
Empire Merchants, Kunduru Music , Riedel, Bedell Cellars, Mike + Kerry Gaynor, Suffolk County National Bank, Northern Power Systems/GreenLogic,
Sag Harbor Florist, Wolffer Estate Vineyards, Cork Tech, Vitro, Grand Cru Classes, Lauber Imports,
Tanger Outlet Center,
Edible East End, Edible Manhattan,
and Edible Brooklyn.
Tickets are on sale now. For more information, visit our website or www.harvesteastend.com.
Organized by the Long Island Merlot Alliance and the Long Island Wine Council, with support from the New York Wine & Grape Foundation.
All proceeds will benefit the Peconic Land Trust and
East End Hospice.
East End Hospice is the fiduciary agent for this event.
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Trust Events on Both Forks a Hit
The last few weeks saw lots of activity on the part of the Trust at events and programs on both the North and South Forks -- and ranged in scope from a day at the farm to our annual Through Farms and Fields County Supper at the historic Port of Missing Men.
John v.H. Halsey with Salms and Fred R. Smith.
Photo by Richard Lewin
 | August 1: Through Farms and Fields at the Port of Missing Men. A wonderful evening in support of conservation and recognition of the Salm family's land stewardship, over 350 guests joined Trust President John v.H. Halsey and Photo by Richard Lewin
 | event chair Nancy Gilbert at the Port of Missing Men. The Salm Family -- Willi, Antonia and Ludi -- were gracious hosts to us all at a magical evening.  August 7: Family Day at Charnews Farm saw hundreds of parents and their children running around this conserved farmstead in Southold -- petting llamas, riding ponies, treasure hunting  in the learning garden, eating freshly made treats from the Slow Food Convivium, and making arts and crafts with the Southold Mothers' Club. This is the first of what we hope will be a yearly event at the farm. Marimba Band.
Photo by Stephen Kotz
 | July & August Fridays at Six: Quickly becoming a tradition, the Fridays at Six music at Bridge Gardens has se  en a steady crowd grow as they picnic in the gardens, listening to the Bridgehampton School Marimba Band, or the latin-influenced jazz music of Charles Certain, Alfredo, and their musical friends. These are just a few of the activities the Trust is working on throughout our communities.
We hope you join us.
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Visit the Peconic Land Trust gift shop for all your Fall Harvesting.  Peconic Land Trust Baseball Caps Plein Air Peconic Notecards
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Peconic Land Trust Conserves Long Island's working farms, natural lands, and heritage for our communities now and in the future.
To learn more, visit us online at www.PeconicLandTrust.org or call 631.283.3195.A copy of the last financial report filed with the New York State Attorney General may be obtained by writing to: New York State Attorney General's Charities Bureau, Attn: FOIL Officer, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271 or Peconic Land Trust, PO Box 1776, Southampton, NY 11969.
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