The Belfast Garden Club Evening Program in collaboration with the Belfast Free Library will host this special virtual presentation by Michael Wojtech.

The program will take place in the Abbott Room with Wojtech presenting on Zoom. You may join us in person or register for the Zoom link here.

The program will be recorded and uploaded to the Library’s YouTube channel.

No single view of a tree is a fixed snapshot in time that tells the complete story. Join Michael and discover how trees grow, reproduce, and interact with their environment across days, weeks, seasons, and years and over varying spatial scales—from the intricate details of buds, flowers, leaves, and bark that we use for species identification to the collaborative roles of trees in ecosystems. Experience the function and beauty of characteristics such as peeling bark, overwintering buds, lobed or toothed leaves, flowers by the thousands, and seeds that fly on the wind.

About the Speaker: Michael Wojtech strives to make the science and beauty of natural history accessible and compelling. He writes and teaches about the structure, growth processes, and ecology of trees—including their bark, buds, leaves, roots, and wood—for audiences at all levels of experience, and explores how knowing the natural history of the places we live and love fosters connection and the feeling of home. Michael is the author of Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast. He has a Master’s degree in Conservation Biology from Antioch University New England, where his infatuation with the natural history and ecology of trees was nurtured and flourished.