Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2012
by Erin Wright, Children’s Garden Educator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Erin Wright is passionate about food and plants. This post was originally published on Erin’s blog, the Richmond Food Collective. Whether you pile it, bury it or feed the worms with it, composting is easy and critical to the food system. Talking about waste is not [...]
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Posted in Children's Garden on Apr 18th, 2012
by Janice Hunter, Children’s Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Does this remind you of anything? Could it be the flight path of a honeybee? a firefly? a ladybug? I think I’ve seen these dashes drawn to depict the flight pattern of most insects with wings and I never gave much thought to why it’s [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2012
by Janice Hunter, Children’s Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden “Did you see anything yet? Have they hatched …?” This was the way my teammates welcomed each other to the Garden last week when we met as volunteers in the Lewis Ginter Children’s Garden. Of course, I had not seen, but was anxious to hear what they were [...]

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