Horticulture Staff

Amy Parrella ’99
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Office: 845-758-7179

Amy Parrella ‘99 is a professional horticulturist with over 25 years of experience in public and private horticulture and landscape management. She graduated from Bard College’s Environmental Studies program and received a Professional Ornamental Horticulture certificate from Longwood Gardens. She also is certified in Early Childhood Education and as a Landscapes for Life educator. Amy has spent much of her career focused on landscape design, historic garden preservation, integrated plant and pollinator management, and reviving forgotten landscapes.  She is passionate about the environment, landscape history and outdoor education. She has a background in non-profit administration, early childhood education, master planning and grant writing. She has taught gardening classes ranging from pre-school through adult learning, given guided garden tours, and published several articles. She volunteers with the local Red Hook school district outdoor classroom garden program and the Friends of Clermont Parks.

Sarah Price
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Sarah Price joined the Bard Arboretum in 2016 as the first Arboretum Curator. She is responsible for plant records and special projects. Projects have included helping to apply for and receive international accreditation of the Arboretum, labeling of trees and shrubs, documentation of memorial plantings and indexing archival Montgomery Place garden maps. She is the principal of Sarah Price, LLC, a  garden design, coaching and consulting business. Sarah holds a BS in Botany from the University of Michigan and a MS in Botanic Garden Management/Ornamental Horticulture from the University of Delaware’s Longwood Program. Her former positions include: Director of Horticulture at Montgomery Place Historic Estate, Senior Garden Editor at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Manager of Display Gardens at the New York Botanical Garden and Curator of Central Park’s Conservatory Garden.  Sarah lives and gardens in Livingston on the family farm of her spouse, Mary Susan Knauss, Bard ‘81.

• Jon Knudsen, Level I, Lead
• Dan McKenna, Level I
• Joe Arsenault, Level I
• Bridget Maple ’05, Level I
• Corey Rathjen, Level II
• Ryan Moore, Level II