Fall Festival – Sunday October 1st Do you have a Chili recipe that makes the perfect, most delicious chili? Would you like to be a part of our first Chili Cook Off? SIGN UP NOW! Electrical outlets will be available to keep your chili hot and bowls, spoons and chili garnishes will be provided. Cook Off participants should arrive between noon and 1pm. Tasting will begin at 1pm and the top three winners will be announced and prizes distributed at 3pm. Sign up for the contest by Monday September 25th. Contact Nancy Lee 315- 256-8196 or [email protected]. Cook off guidelines will be sent to those who sign up. Participants will supply chili, serving spoon, and the recipe. ere is no fee to be a participant. All of the prepared chili will be offered for sale as part of our fundraiser for Amberations. For those not familiar with Amberations’ Fall Festival, we host some of the finest music around. Participants in the chili cook off will be entertained by the special talents of Sydney Irving. Sydney is a 14 year old singer songwriter who plays guitar and ukulele. Her first album called Hello Stranger was released in February. She’s been performing in public for about a year and a half, and is always a hit wherever she plays. Sydney will be performing during our festival but has also agreed to come early just for our cook off folks. Always popular at our event is Kambuyu Marimba, a marimba ensemble playing music rooted in the musical traditions of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. eir ensemble instruments include seven marimbas: 3 sopranos, 2 tenors, 1 baritone and 1 bass. 2345 Amber Road Marietta, NY 13110 315.636.7166 www.amberations.org Fall 2017 Amber Road Marietta, NY 13110 Fall Festival October 1st 2017 Bulk Rate U.S. Postage Paid Permit #24 e marimbas are accompanied by hosho, or gourd rattles, and sometimes drums. ey play happy, percussive music—very rhythmic and driving—meant for dancing. In most songs, one of the soprano marimbas plays lead, while the other instruments provide curious, supportive counter-rhythms and chords. e music is infectious. Traditional Mbira Music from Zimbabwe is music played at the Shona peoples’ sacred and joyous festivals. It is mystical and meditative and is the basis for the marimba sound of the Kambuyu. One of our favorite regulars, Bob Lyna, sings the classics from the 60’s to today. He’s known for his driving vocals and his engaging, humorous stage presence. He’s a full time performer who frequents Central New York’s coffee houses, wineries, senior homes and Amberations! e trio e Perennials have all played in many bands through the years. Bob Elfenbein, Jacqui McCarthy and Harvey Nusbaum are using this collaboration to play the songs they love regardless of genre. You might hear songs from the Beatles, Tom Petty, Doc Watson, Hank Williams or Patsy Cline as well as traditional fiddling. Along with all this great music, our festival always has an assortment of wonderful foods. From spanikopita to pumpkin ice cream, apple crisp, hot dogs and cookies we have foods to satisfy every palette. Games, animals and crafts all make this an amazing event you won’t want to miss. Plan to stay until five to watch our ever popular, and competitive, duck race. Providing opportunities for people of all abilities to connect with nature
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Fall Festival – Sunday October 1st
Do you have a Chili recipe that makes the perfect, most delicious chili? Would you like to be a part of our first Chili Cook Off? SIGN UP NOW! Electrical outlets will be available to keep your chili hot and bowls, spoons and chili garnishes will be provided. Cook Off participants should arrive between noon and 1pm. Tasting will begin at 1pm and the top three winners will be announced and prizes distributed at 3pm.
Sign up for the contest by Monday September 25th. Contact Nancy Lee 315-256-8196 or [email protected]. Cook off guidelines will be sent to those who sign up. Participants will supply chili, serving spoon, and the recipe. There is no fee to be a participant. All of the prepared chili will be offered for sale as part of our fundraiser for Amberations.
For those not familiar with Amberations’ Fall Festival, we host some of the finest music around. Participants in the chili cook off will be entertained by the special talents of Sydney Irving. Sydney is a 14 year old singer songwriter who plays guitar and ukulele. Her first album called Hello Stranger was released in February. She’s been performing in public for about a year and a half, and is always a hit wherever she plays. Sydney will be performing during our festival but has also agreed to come early just for our cook off folks.
Always popular at our event is Kambuyu Marimba, a marimba ensemble playing music rooted in the musical traditions of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. Their ensemble instruments include seven marimbas: 3 sopranos, 2 tenors, 1 baritone and 1 bass.
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The marimbas are accompanied by hosho, or gourd rattles, and sometimes drums. They play happy, percussive music—very rhythmic and driving—meant for dancing. In most songs, one of the soprano marimbas plays lead, while the other instruments provide curious, supportive counter-rhythms and chords. The music is infectious.
Traditional Mbira Music from Zimbabwe is music played at the Shona peoples’ sacred and joyous festivals. It is mystical and meditative and is the basis for the marimba sound of the Kambuyu.
One of our favorite regulars, Bob Lyna, sings the classics from the 60’s to today. He’s known for his driving vocals and his engaging, humorous stage presence. He’s a full time performer who frequents Central New York’s coffee houses, wineries, senior homes and Amberations!
The trio The Perennials have all played in many bands through the years. Bob Elfenbein, Jacqui McCarthy and Harvey Nusbaum are using this collaboration to play the songs they love regardless of genre. You might hear songs from the Beatles, Tom Petty, Doc Watson, Hank Williams or Patsy Cline as well as traditional fiddling.
Along with all this great music, our festival always has an assortment of wonderful foods. From spanikopita to pumpkin ice cream, apple crisp, hot dogs and cookies we have foods to satisfy every palette. Games, animals and crafts all make this an amazing event you won’t want to miss. Plan to stay until five to watch our ever popular, and competitive, duck race.
Providing opportunities for people of all abilities to connect with nature
Attics • Basements Building Demolition • Excavation
Dumpster Removal
We Haul Everything!
Outdoor Life Learners and Amberations
The Rummage Barn Clean Outs and Buy Outs
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With growing concerns of “nature deficit disorder” becoming a real issue among children, outdoor education is as important now as it has ever been. More often we hear about recess being limited to once a day and for no more than 20 minutes in elementary schools across the country. Free outdoor play is imperative for a growing developing mind to thrive. The founders of Outdoor Life Learners recognized this need for free nature play and decided to do something about it. The four moms started a free nature club right here in the CNY area. Each week families gather at a roaming CNY location and enjoy a little nature yoga, lots of free play and exploration and nature education in the woods. The roaming nature club has grown in popularity over the course of two years which prompted these nature loving moms to create Outdoor Life Learners. Together with their diverse backgrounds in education, neuroscience, music theory and naturalist experience they decided to bring a nature based educational alternative to our area.
Outdoor Life Learners (OLL) provides Nature Immersion Programs for children of all ages including community outreach programs, a year round, free weekly Nature Club, Nature Yoga, and a Nature School running on an academic calendar (September through June). The goal of OLL is to foster the next generation of environmental stewards. OLL believes young, developing minds need sunlight, fresh air and dirt in copious amounts and on a daily basis. OLL also believes children learn best through free, unstructured and spontaneous play. Our educational program offerings are designed with this winning formula at their core: nature + free play = life long learners who will never lose their innate curiosity for life, awe of the natural world and passion for exploration and experimentation.
Outdoor Life Learners’ Outreach Programs range from half-day workshops with area Girl Scout Troops, day long Nature Labs
for Teens and Pre-Teens, Nature Birthday Parties, Nature Themed Yoga and more. In addition, OLL periodically organizes community events that are free and open to the public, geared towards families, in hopes of continuing to encourage everyone to get outside and enjoy Nature. Our website, www.outdoorlifelearners.com is the best place to learn more about upcoming events and how to contact us if interested in having OLL provide programming for area organizations or families.
This fall, Outdoor Life Learners and Amberations will be working collaboratively as Nature Center and Nature School unite to provide area families an alternative to their child’s educational needs. OLL Hike Tykes is perfect for the preschool crowd (3 to 6 years of age). This program will meet Tuesdays and/or Thursdays, from 9:15 - noon. OLL Explorers offers a unique space for kids ages 6 to 12, where they can interact with nature and learn in the way that suits them best. This program is the perfect addition for area homeschooling families, as experiences go towards fulfilling NYS Homeschooling standards in ELA, STEM, Physical and Health Education. This program will meet Tuesdays and/or Thursdays from 9am to 3pm. Both programs take place mostly outdoors, rain, snow or shine. Children are taught to embrace dressing for the weather. Parents are encouraged to be their child’s greatest supporter in this unique and memorable opportunity.
In the Spring of 2016 Griff Williams visited Amberations for the first time. He came with a group from the United Methodist Church of Marcellus; they were contributing a day of volunteer service to our organization.
When Griff heard of our dream of a pond at our barn site he volunteered to take on the task with his purple, Komatsu excavator. The first step was getting the necessary permits.
The Department of Environmental Conservation was easy to work with (to the surprise of many). Our barn is in a protected historical zone and the clearance we needed from the Parks Department was also easy. The Soil and Water Conservation portion was a bit more involved and took quite a bit longer, most of the very dry summer we had last year.
As soon as we finally received our permit, the rains began. Anxious to get started, Griff quickly did all the excavation he possibly could, then watched as the rains came, and came, and came. The saturated ground soon became unworkable and work had to cease until the Spring. Our 2017 Spring brought the 8th wettest April in local history followed by a May in which we broke a 100 year rainfall record.
Griff patiently waited and showed up to work whenever the ground dried enough. While it was too wet to work outside, Griff crafted a mahogony sluice for the overflow from our pond.
Something else was happening during this period; frogs moved in, laid eggs, and multiplied ten fold. They are a joy to watch and hear.
Before the rains finally dissipated, the branch from a large willow came down, rerouting our stream and jeopardizing all the work that had been done. John Wiley and Griff spent hours moving mud and rocks in the pouring rain to avoid additional damage.
An emergency vote was held and Amberations paid $1000 to have the remaining trunk of the tree taken down, as it was threatening to fall into the pond. This added willow timbers to the ever escalating project and the story of our “Willow Sculpture Garden” .
Now Griff has finished all the major excavation. The pasture is finally dry and once the final grading is done, which should be any day, it will be ready for seeding. Our boardwalk will be reinstalled and we have plans for a small foot bridge and hopes to make the area wheelchair friendly.
We want to thank Tim Wiley, John Wiley, and Jim Frary for their hard work in assisting with this project and Johnna Wiley for her part in helping with the application. We are presently determining how to adequately express our thanks to Griff, for now... THANK YOU GRIFF!
Pond Day Visits at Amberations We are happy to report on some
spectacular day visits at Amberations. Project Explore from Exceptional
Family Resources, who happens to be one of the first groups to enjoy our establishment, returned to Amberations this summer.
Two different youth groups consisting of about 20 exceptional participants and their staff who explore the greater syracuse area in the summertime, came out on two separate occasions.
During their visit, Amberations staff provided activities including visiting and feeding the animals, hiking the trails, and building boats to race in the stream. Some of the most creative watercrafts were fashioned by these enthusiastic individuals. They seemed to greatly enjoy their visit and we are
looking forward to their return next year.
Another exciting day trip was organized for the Jewish Community Center community service group. Each week throughout the summer, the JCC seeks out community service opportunities in the central NY area.
School age participants enjoyed gardening and landscaping activities as well as just communing with the Great Outdoors. Everyone enjoyed their visit and expressed interest in returning next year for more fun with nature.
If you are interested in bringing a group out for a fun, activity-filled day visit, just contact us at [email protected] to schedule a time and date. We promise it will be loads of outdoor fun!
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A Message from the Treasurer
Almost every article in this newsletter could have included a line about needing volunteers for whatever project was discussed. We spared you there and saved it for here. Amberations is held together by a very small core of caring and devoted volunteers. We are happy to see more and more groups, families and individuals enjoying our grounds and animals. However, the number of volunteers participating in the upkeep is not increasing proportionately with the guests enjoying our site. If anyone is willing to help we could really use you. The best way to reach out is to email us at [email protected]. Whatever your interest or ability we will work to match you with a task. You could help once a year, month, week or day. Some suggestions follow but there are really too many to list. You may even have an idea for something we haven’t thought of yet.
Amberations is always in need of monetary donations. Our two annual fundraisers provide about half of our annual operating budget. Our expenses include about $2000 for insurance; $3000 for animal feed and care; $1000 for media outreach; and another $1000+ for miscellaneous expenses. Vet care can be unpredictable and expensive as is the upkeep of our caretaker quarters. Monetary donations in any amount are appreciated. Thanks to Matt Strempel and Luke & his dad Rusty we now have donation boxes at our upper and lower sites. Please consider an annual donation, sponsoring an animal monthly, or a cash offering when you visit. All funds collected go directly to the expenses incurred by keeping our grounds open and our animals healthy.
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Animal Update
Hi, Jim Frary here, we have finally had some good weather to finish regrading our barn yard paddock and now will redo the fence around it and reseed it. We need volunteers, email me at [email protected].
You will notice Maree is limping, Joe stepped on her foot when they were eating hay. We, their care givers, will do a better job of distributing hay so they’re not so close together when they eat.
We recently received two rabbits that have taken up residence in the pen in front of barn. The white one came with the name Blackie and the black one Whitey. Come to our fall festival and we will have a name the bunny contest. Thank you Kristin for donating them. At this time we have someone who has offered to keep them in a warm place for the winter.
You will notice a saddle on a bale of hay inside the barn. Thank you to Griff, our landscaper, for donating it. I took it to Bill Parsons in Throop to have it cleaned up and reconditioned, it looks great. It’s there for kids to play on and I am working with Joe to eventually lead him with saddle on for kids to ride. Will keep you posted how that’s going. We purchased a saddle blanket and new cinch as well. Thanks to Jamee Swope for her expertise on how to train him, see her at [email protected].
The horses in the upper field belong
to Jamee Swope and from time to time you will notice them missing. She moves them to greener pastures when the grass gets eaten down up there. They have been a great attraction for those who walk the trails. The brown one is ChiChi and the other is “Q”. Check them out and enjoy the walk.
Next animal project is the chicken house that was inside our barn and has been moved out in barn yard where it will be made ready for laying hens. Thanks to a visiting family who helped us move it out! We plan to put a fence around it so it will be safe and there will be fresh eggs for those who dare to reach in and get them! That probably won’t be ready till next summer. Again we will keep you posted. If you have any questions or new ideas for animal Care please e-mail me, see you at the barn!
to benefit
Sunday October 1, 2017 1-6pm2223 Amber Road, Marietta
LIVE MUSICSydney Irving • Bob Lyna and FriendsThe Perennials with Jacqui McCarthy
Amberations is: 50 acres of forest and fields. Farm animals to visit.A barn and stream to play in.Dog friendly.Yours to explore.
Summer Odyssey 2017
Summer Odyssey Camp gets better and better each year with more fun activities and natural areas to explore.This year was the third year running and the campers can’t wait to be back for more fun, next year.
Amberations’ Summer Odyssey is an all inclusive outdoor experience welcoming any child ages 4th-7th grade. This year we featured activities including hiking, visiting with animals, fort building, terrariums, sand sculpting, arts and crafts. Our musical guest Harvey Nusbaum returned for a visit. We also made ice cream and ended the week with a puppet show featuring our handmade puppets.
We look forward to next summer. These are only a few of the fantastic adventures campers will enjoy during our flexibly scheduled week of fun.
Campers are encouraged to suggest ideas for fun that we will work into the activities of the day.
Each year campers work together to build a fort in the upper fields to play in during their time together.
The camp will be offered Monday through Thursday 10am-4pm starting the first week of August and, depending on enrollment, carrying on through the end of the month.
We provide experienced certified staff who love working with kids. Visit our grounds to see what Amberations has to offer for your child’s camp experience. Plan ahead, call now to reserve a slot.
Depending on interest Amberations may add a week for younger campers. Let us know if you have a school aged child interested in enjoying Amberations’ Summer Odyssey.
