Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2011
by Albert Brian Vick, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The cauliflower and broccoli in the Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden have been simply stunning, despite the warm weather. We have currently donated 9,503 total pounds of freshly-grown produce to The Central Virginia FoodBank, Meals on Wheels of Central Virginia & FeedMore’s Community Kitchen for the [...]
Posted in Dominion GardenFest of Lights on Nov 18th, 2011
by Garrett McLees, Public Relations & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden I arrived at Lewis Ginter in early September, and even though it was months away, it didn’t take long for me to hear about Dominion GardenFest of Lights, or GardenFest, as most folks call it around here. For some, GardenFest is the most anticipated event [...]
Posted in Dominion GardenFest of Lights, Events, Uncategorized on Nov 17th, 2011
by Nancy Turnage, Public Relations & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Last week we told you all about our new addition in the Conservatory – “The Old Tree”. We are happy to announce that volunteers Nancy Butler and Alexandra Slusher have created a masterpiece. The Old Tree is ready for holiday visitors! The inhabitants have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 15th, 2011
by Albert Brian Vick Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Hey, I can call them nerds because a) that’s how they introduced themselves to me, and b) I’m a nerd. A team from the DLA IT function came to the CKG on Saturday to WRK. Just having a little fun with the abbreviations. These folks [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 13th, 2011
By Nancy Turnage, Public Relations & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The air grows cooler, the days darken in late afternoon, and the trees portray nature’s brilliant autumnal portrait. Here at the Garden, the word is GardenFest and the magic it brings each year via more than a half million outdoor lights. But before all the hoopla [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 11th, 2011
by Albert Brian Vick Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden We’re still truckin’ along in the Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden. Although it’s now nearly a week into November, the broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower are not quite ready to harvest en masse. We harvested 26 pounds of beautiful broccoli and cabbage on October 31st, but [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 11th, 2011
by Grace Chapman, Director of Horticulture, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Note: We recently welcomed Grace Chapman, our new director of horticulture, to the Garden. This blog post is about her transition to Richmond, it originally appeared on Grace Chapman’s personal blog, Sewn and Grown. After a great six years in the Philly area, life [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 10th, 2011
by Albert Brian Vick Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The last Saturday in October, a group of seven Dominion associates worked at Lewis Ginter’s Community Kitchen Garden. What started out as a shiver-inducing brisk morning quickly turned into t-shirt weather as the team cleared a large area to prep for the winter cover crop. The team also [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 8th, 2011
by Albert Brian Vick Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator That’s folksy talk referring to the fall vegetable garden. At Lewis Ginter’s Community Kitchen Garden we have all the old tomato plants cleared, the stakes & cages stacked, a winter cover crop of annual rye and red clover sown, and we’re just a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 7th, 2011
by Albert Brian Vick Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator It was a gorgeous morning at Lewis Ginter’s Community Kitchen Garden. We took a day off from pampering the cole crops, and applied our energy to the incremental removal of some of the hundreds of tomato plants. The process of preparing the garden [...]
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