Overview -- Sponsors -- Volunteer -- Music -- Booths
Wildflower Festival
& Plant Sale
Sunday, May 17, 2009
10 am to 4 pm
Parking is free on festival day.
Suggested donation $5 per person, children under 12 free.
Please leave your dogs at home!
Set aside Sunday, May 17th for a day of wildflowers, music, food, crafts, and microscopes! You don’t have to be a plant expert to love our upcoming Wildflower 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! There will also be live music to amplify this festive frolic in the meadow. A wide variety of plants, baked goods, and crafts will be on sale, with proceeds supporting the Arboretum’s work in habitat restoration and environmental education. Bring the entire family (except the dog) to enjoy the festival as well as explore nearby nature trails. Tour guides will weave folks through the trails, providing more information about the Arboretum’s ecology and history.
The Wildflower Festival is co-hosted by the Native Plant Society of Oregon and Lane Community College. Special thanks to our generous sponsors:
Mount Pisgah Arboretum's annual Wildflower 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. (This will be starting soon, call now to sign up for a route!)
* Help set up booths and tables on Saturday, May 16th.
* Decorate the booths and entryway on Saturday, May 16--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; call Laramie at 343-6536 if you're unsure.)
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 18.
Please call Katura at 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!
The following performers will be at the Wildflower Festival:
- 10am - Skinner City String Band (old time)
- 11am - The Huckleberries (country)
- noon - Grace Shumway (amazing 11 year old singer-songwriter)
- 1pm - Walker T. Ryan and Papa Soul (blues)
- 2pm - Macaco Velho (Brazilian dance music)
- 3pm - Hot Club Eugene (gypsy jazz/swing)
FOOD
The Delicious MPA Bake Sale (donations needed)
Holy Cow
Espresso On The Move
Chateau Lorane Winery
Townsend's Kombucha
Born in a Barn Kettle Corn
Café Amor
Big Stuff Barbeque
Last Stand Hot Dogs
ART
Sweet Pea Silks
Ian Beyer Metals
Twining Rivers Basketry Society
Charting Nature
Far Out Candles
Erika Beyer Botanical Art
Timeless Arts
Pioneer Natural Soap
Firefly Jewelry
PLANTS
The Fabulous MPA Plant Booth (donations needed)
White Oak Farm
Doak Creek
Fern Ridge
Wild Goose
Lorane Hills
Fern Hill
Buggy Crazy
Bonsai Dean
Anima Mundi
Friends of Buford Park & Mt. Pisgah
Northwest Native Trees
Complete list of non-profit booths coming soon.