Is your garden in need of a little help? Or, does your landscape lack a garden and cry out for one? If either is your case, or you just want to expand your gardening skills, come to Van Vleck House and Gardens for a series of practical workshops, given by one of the area's top landscape designer-landscaper collaborators. The four-party series will be led by noted landscape designer Lisa Mierop, owner/operator of Mierop Design, a residential landscape design/build firm that services high-end residential projects in and around Montclair, and landscaper Frank J. Contey, owner/operator of Terra Graphics Landscape Services, who collaborates with Mierop on projects.

Join us at Van Vleck House & Gardens for a tasty tour and demonstration of maple sugaring. The Sugar Maple tree in Mother’s Garden will be tapped, and if the weather cooperates, the sap will be flowing.
Families will learn how to identify a Sugar Maple tree and discover the steps of turning sap into syrup.
At the conclusion of the tour, there will be a taste testing of course!
Don’t miss this deliciously sweet event!

Van Vleck’s 2014 Plant Sale starts with the Preview Party on Friday, May 2. The sale opens to the public on Saturday, May 3, and continues through Friday, May 9.
We need volunteers to staff shifts all week. Volunteer duties will include assisting customers with plant selection, writing up plant sales and checking out purchases. This has been a fun event for our volunteers in the past, so we hope you will consider signing up for a shift or two.

Painting pictures in the air, firing up imaginations, portraying cultures more powerfully than any other medium – that's the nature of storytelling. And that's what has kept storytelling vital the world over since ancient times. On Sunday, April 6, beginning at 2 pm, three eminent storytellers will bring to life pieces of 5,000 years of Jewish culture through An Extraordinary Day of Jewish Storytelling at Van Vleck House & Gardens in Montclair. Admission is $5 per person, refreshments included. Pre-registration is required. To pre-register, please visit www.vanvleck.org or call 973-744-4752.