Grab your favorite beach chair and come on down to scenic grounds of The Reboli Center for some educational, family fun with Cornell Master Gardener, Valerie Doyle! Doyle, creator of The Reboli Center’s first ever Pollinator sensory garden is coming to visit on July 27th, 2024 just for you! Starting at 10am, Ms. Doyle will entertain and educate both children and adults alike with enriching information about building a pollinator garden. Activities will include group reading insightful excerpts from her informational and colorful children’s book, encouraging guests to engage in enjoying a Garden Water Color Painting demonstration, spectating a one-day-only Garden Stained Glass Exhibit, experiencing the sensory aspects of the garden and learning how you can start building your own pollinator garden at home on a budget.
Ms. Doyle will be available to sell copies of her books once the talk and demos have concluded. Our President, Lois Reboli, will also be offering tours of The Reboli Center and our latest exhibition, free of charge, for your enjoyment!
Learn More About The Event Host:
Valerie Doyle | The Reboli Center's Pollinator Professional
Valerie Doyle was born and raised on Long Island, New York, 30 minutes from Manhattan where she graduated from the Fashion Institute of technology. After enjoying decades of worldwide travel as a sourcing agent, design director and merchandiser for top global fashion companies, Doyle was asked to teach on Long Island high school art, design and technology. Doyle has also been highly engaged and interested with farming since the age of 9, when her stepfather taught her how to create an edible garden in the backyard of their home. Doyle's fascination with farming eventually lead her to obtain a B.S. in Science from F.I.T. and a M.S. in Education, Literacy ,Special education from C.W.Post., and a Post Master’s in administration law.
"As a retired S.T.E.A.M. high school teacher, I am committed to teaching organic sustainable agriculture; by practicing crop rotation, cover-cropping, permaculture, biodiversity, predatory insects and natural amendments." - Valerie Doyle
Doyle's education career as a S.T.E.A.M. teacher spanned nearly 25 teaching science, technology, engineer, art and math. She has enjoyed a long and diverse career in teaching, holding a prolific 9 NYS teaching certifications. After retiring from teaching in 2020, Cornell farming courses became her new passion. Valerie Doyle is now proud to sport the share the title of a certified Cornell Master Gardener with affiliations to multiple historical societies along with many religious organizations, local farms and other various community gardens that are registered 'Pollinator Pathways' and S.T.E.A.M. gardens. These gardens incorporate a sensory and multidisciplinary approach to teaching and learning.
Doyle is also currently an independently published author and illustrator of The Magic Edible Garden, an educational and engaging book for children. Doyle is eager to share her love and fascination how pollinators work to produce our food. In the Magic Edible Gardne Book her artistic talents to educate and inspire children and families with the proven successful methods of gardening for all ages are represented through her storytelling and sometime fun some scientific illustrations. Doyle's goal is to create engaging agriculturally accurate books that inspire and teach S.T.E.A.M. through farming. We are so grateful that Valerie Doyle's passions led her to desire to create a pollinator garden at The Reboli Center... Something we have been wanting for a long time but needed the help of extra hands to get started! So we are sending out a heartfelt THANK YOU for all the work that Valerie Doyle has done to begin creating our very own pollinator garden at The Reboli Center!