[BNS_members] Wildflowers Foundations & Field Course is back on!

[Soren Bondrup-Nielsen]

Sorry, this message was supposed to go to the BNS Board.
My mistake

Soren

Soren Bondrup-Nielsen
Professor Emeritus,  Biology
Acadia University

www.bondrup.com

> On Jun 6, 2023, at 11:37 AM, Soren Bondrup-Nielsen <soren at bondrup.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Caroline,
> The fixed costs for courses is $300 for the instructor and $17 per person for lunch.
> It would be good to be able to pay Ross Creek minimally $100 for the venue. We have no set rate at this time. The profit from courses is split 40/60 between Ross Creek and the BNS.
> Offering two positions in a course at 50% seems doable.
> 
> Cheer,
> Soren
> 
> Soren Bondrup-Nielsen
> Professor Emeritus,  Biology
> Acadia University
> 
> www.bondrup.com
> 
>>> On Jun 5, 2023, at 7:31 PM, Caroline Beddoe <coordinator at blomidonnaturalists.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>> Good rainy day,
>> 
>> Thank you rain! We are so grateful for your abundance. We are also thankful to be allowed back in the woods now that the forest activities ban is lifted, which means our upcoming Wildflowers field course is a go!
>>  
>> Join us for Wildflowers & Other Plants Foundations & Field Course.
>>  
>> Once again we have this fun course with Alain Belliveau! Come learn about and how to identify different plant families and species in our local area, and gain foundational knowledge for interpreting and connecting to the Acadian/Wabanaki Forest region. The focus is on wildflowers, but will touch on ferns and other plants too.
>>  
>> Sunday June 11th from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. This is an all-day classroom & field course on how to identify wildflowers and other plants conducted by Alain Belliveau, local botanist and the Biodiversity Collections Manager at the E C Smith Herbarium at Acadia University. The course will take place at the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts. Lunch is provided as part of the ticket. Yum!
>>  
>> See more details & please register here: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/blomidon-naturalists-society/events/wildflowers-other-plants-of-the-acadian-forest-foundations-and-field-course/
>>  
>> <Wildflower Course June 11.png>
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>> Caroline Beddoe
>> She/her
>> 613-619-1098
>> Program Coordinator
>> Blomidon Naturalists Society
>> Wolfville, Nova Scotia
>> 
>> Blomidon Naturalists Society activities take place in Mi’kma’ki, the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. We acknowledge that we have a responsibility to honour and learn about their histories and current cultures and to actively work in support of reconciliation. We are committed to fostering respectful and sustainable relationships with the Indigenous Peoples of this land, with all other organisms, with the land and with the water.
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