Home Earth Alliance

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Home Earth Alliance/IMAGINE Native Plant Farm-a nonprofit providing native plants, education & landscape consults to support biodiversity, mitigate climate change & promote environmental justice in Capital Region NY.

And just like that the has returned and Home Earth Alliance will be exhibiting for a 4th year in a row! Come visit us a...
03/27/2026

And just like that the has returned and Home Earth Alliance will be exhibiting for a 4th year in a row! Come visit us and immerse yourself in our exhibit, IMAGINE Wild Where You Are, a world where we live in partnership with nature.

📅Friday, March 27, 10AM - 6PM
Saturday, March 28, 10AM - 6PM
Sunday, March 29, 10AM - 5PM

📍McDonough Sports Complex, Hudson Valley Community College
80 Vandenburgh Avenue, Troy, NY, 12180

Thank you to everyone who helped install our exhibit this week!

& Thank you to our generous donors: , , & frontstoopgardens

Images: Home Earth Alliance crew setting up for the Capital Region Flower & Garden Expo, 2026

Home Earth Alliance is thrilled to announce we will be returning to the for a 4th year in a row! Come visit us and imme...
03/17/2026

Home Earth Alliance is thrilled to announce we will be returning to the for a 4th year in a row! Come visit us and immerse yourself in our exhibit, IMAGINE Wild Where You Are, a world where we live in partnership with nature.

📅Friday, March 27, 10AM - 6PM
Saturday, March 28, 10AM - 6PM
Sunday, March 29, 10AM - 5PM

📍McDonough Sports Complex, Hudson Valley Community College
80 Vandenburgh Avenue, Troy, NY, 12180

Link in bio to purchase tickets or visit: https://ticketing.events/app/portal/1/13507?channel=event_rep&rep_id=98

Thank you to our generous donors: , , &

Do you enjoy light construction? Painting sets? Gardening? Could you help us with a truck or trailer for transporting materials to and from HVCC? Would you like to serve as one of this year’s exhibit educators or onsite artists? We need you!

Set up and planting takes place March 24-26, and education and engagement with visitors March 27-29. Contact Nicole at [email protected] for more information!

Images: Home Earth Alliance at the Capital Region Flower & Garden Expo, 2025

Join Home Earth Alliance and the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society for our upcoming course, H.E.L.P - The Habitat & Ecosys...
03/04/2026

Join Home Earth Alliance and the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society for our upcoming course, H.E.L.P - The Habitat & Ecosystems Land Pro certification program! H.E.L.P is a 3-day course for landscaping professionals and lawn service business owners who work in Upstate NY and the surrounding regions.

Co-taught by Kate Brittenham, Home Earth Alliance co-founder and co-author of “Designing Gardens with Flora of the America East,” this training will cover a full range of topics, including:

🌿Environmentally-friendly practices in managed landscapes
🌿Local native plants
🌿Soil types, geological areas and eco-regions
🌿Ecological design principles and natural climate solutions
🌿Monetizing and incentivizing the new ecological landscaping model
🌿Requirements for CEUs and endorsements.

📆March 10, 11, 12, 9AM - 3PM
📍Albany Pine Bush Preserve Discovery Center
195 New Karner Road, Albany, NY 12205

Learn more at https://doas.us/help-2026/

Home Earth Alliance is proud to join the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society to present H.E.L.P - The Habitat & Ecosystems L...
02/27/2026

Home Earth Alliance is proud to join the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society to present H.E.L.P - The Habitat & Ecosystems Land Pro certification program! H.E.L.P is a 3-day course for landscaping professionals and lawn service business owners who work in Upstate NY and the surrounding regions.

Co-taught by Kate Brittenham, Home Earth Alliance co-founder and co-author of “Designing Gardens with Flora of the America East,” this training will cover a full range of topics, including:

🌿Environmentally-friendly practices in managed landscapes
🌿Local native plants
🌿Soil types, geological areas and eco-regions
🌿Ecological design principles and natural climate solutions
🌿Monetizing and incentivizing the new ecological landscaping model
🌿Requirements for CEUs and endorsements.

📆March 10, 11, 12, 9AM - 3PM
📍Albany Pine Bush Preserve Discovery Center
195 New Karner Road, Albany, NY 12205

Learn more at https://doas.us/help-2026/.

Calling all farm volunteers! Please join us this Saturday, February 21st or Saturday March 14th for our next Seed Sowing...
02/18/2026

Calling all farm volunteers! Please join us this Saturday, February 21st or Saturday March 14th for our next Seed Sowing & Soup Parties! Help us seed our new season’s worth of native plants. This is a fun and critically important job and we need many hands. Bring a friend and spend an afternoon in our hoop house. No experience necessary! Come enjoy sun, soil, seeds, and soup! Pre registration appreciated. We hope you will join us!

📅Sunday, Feb. 21, 10AM - 3PM
📅Saturday, March 14, 10AM - 3PM
📍71 Retreat House Rd, Glenmont, NY (up the drive by the old white farmhouse)

Link in bio or visit our website.

Images from seed sowing, February, 2026.

Please join us this Sunday, February 8th for a Seed Sowing & Soup Party at the farm! Help us seed our new season’s worth...
02/05/2026

Please join us this Sunday, February 8th for a Seed Sowing & Soup Party at the farm! Help us seed our new season’s worth of native plants. Many hands make light work! Grab a friend and spend an afternoon in our hoop house. No experience necessary! Sun, soil, seeds, soup, kindred souls.... what’s not to love! We hope you will join us! Thank you to everyone who has already signed up, we look forward to seeing you :)

📅Sunday, Feb. 8, 10AM - 3PM
📅Saturday, Feb. 21, 10AM - 3PM
📍71 Retreat House Rd, Glenmont, NY (up the drive by the old white farmhouse)
Please sign-up so we know how many are coming and can communicate any weather-related changes!

Link in bio or visit our website.

Image from seed sowing, February, 2025

CALL TO FARM VOLUNTEERS! Take a trip to the (relative) tropics of our sunny hoop house and help us seed our new season’s...
01/31/2026

CALL TO FARM VOLUNTEERS! Take a trip to the (relative) tropics of our sunny hoop house and help us seed our new season’s worth of native plants. 🌱 This is a fun and critically important job and needs many hands. PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING US! No experience necessary! Sun, soil, seeds, soup, kindred souls.... what’s not to love! We hope you will join us!

📅Sunday, Feb. 8, 10AM - 3PM
📅Saturday, Feb. 21, 10AM - 3PM
Please sign-up so we know how many are coming and can communicate any weather-related changes!

Link in bio or visit our website.

Images from seed sowing, February, 2025

Happy New Year from Home Earth Alliance!
01/09/2026

Happy New Year from Home Earth Alliance!

Get into the holiday spirit with the team at Albany Distilling Company for their Festively Foraged Holiday Centerpiece...
12/10/2025

Get into the holiday spirit with the team at Albany Distilling Company for their Festively Foraged Holiday Centerpiece workshop tomorrow, December 11 at 6PM! ⭐️

Tickets are $40, link in bio to purchase.

Thank you to everyone who has already made a generous donation to Home Earth Alliance and IMAGINE Native Plant Farm for ...
12/02/2025

Thank you to everyone who has already made a generous donation to Home Earth Alliance and IMAGINE Native Plant Farm for Giving Tuesday. We are closing in on our goal of $5,000. Please help us close the gap. Every gift is vital!

By giving today, you're helping us continue to expand our reach and restore essential ecosystems. Please help us reach our goal of $5,000 on this day of giving. Link in bio to make a gift, or visit homeearthalliance.org/donate

If you've already made a gift to Home Earth Alliance this giving season, please share this with friends, family, and garden enthusiasts!
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Home Earth Alliance's mission is to educate, inspire, and empower people to more mindfully steward their outdoor spaces to support biodiversity, mitigate climate change, and promote environmental justice.

Our IMAGINE Native Plant Farm furthers that mission by growing native plants for public & private lands and urban spaces in the greater Upper Hudson Valley.

Image: "Twilight Garden" Eutrochium purpureum (Purple Joe Pye W**d) Watercolor on paper. Elizabeth Meer. 2022

Today is , an international day of philanthropy and radical generosity, and we need you! Now more than ever, it is impo...
12/02/2025

Today is , an international day of philanthropy and radical generosity, and we need you! Now more than ever, it is important to align our spending with our values. On this day of giving, please consider making a gift to Home Earth Alliance.

By giving today, you're helping us continue to expand our reach and restore essential ecosystems. Please help us reach our goal of $5,000 on this day of giving. Link in bio to make a gift, or visit homeearthalliance.org/donate

If you've already made a gift to Home Earth Alliance this giving season, please share this with friends, family, and garden enthusiasts!

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Home Earth Alliance's mission is to educate, inspire, and empower people to more mindfully steward their outdoor spaces to support biodiversity, mitigate climate change, and promote environmental justice.

Our IMAGINE Native Plant Farm furthers that mission by growing native plants for public & private lands and urban spaces in the greater Upper Hudson Valley.

Image: 'Two Maples,' Acer rubrum (Red Maple); Pinus strobus (White Pine); Abies balsamea (Balsalm Fir). Watercolor on paper. Elizabeth Meer 2025.

Thank you to everyone who came to the art show opening on Friday night, including Senator Pat Fahy and to all who stopp...
11/23/2025

Thank you to everyone who came to the art show opening on Friday night, including Senator Pat Fahy and to all who stopped by yesterday! Today is the last day to come view the pop-up art show, we’ll be here until 4!

The art show features over 100 works by 30 local artists celebrating native plants of the Upper Hudson Valley. Perfect gifts for the holidays! Proceeds benefit Home Earth Alliance and our IMAGINE Native Plant Farm’s mission to support biodiversity, mitigate climate change, and promote environmental justice. Free and open to the public.

We’ll also be hosting a silent auction with special items including watercolor workshops, native landscape designs, and a dinner party for 10.

📍Delaware Plaza, 180 Delaware Ave, Suite #158, Delmar, NY

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71 Retreat House Road
Glenmont, NY
12077

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 2pm
Wednesday 10am - 2pm
Thursday 10am - 2pm
Friday 10am - 2pm
Saturday 10am - 2pm
Sunday 10am - 2pm

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