25 Years & Growing
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 1st, 2012
by Kristen Ablamsky, PR & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Did you know there is a holiday, native to Israel, that celebrates a new year in honor of plants? It’s called Tu B’shevat (TOO-bish-VAHT). It’s sometimes called Jewish Arbor Day. This agricultural holiday began in ancient times as a way to keep track of [...]
Posted in Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2012
by Nancy Turnage, Public Relations & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden A few months ago, while on a mission to capture some fun photos for my Every Day is a Playday blog, I encountered a little friend. He was so cute — set amidst the foliage and ornate shrubbery. He was so completely out of place. He [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter, Uncategorized on Jan 6th, 2012
by Albert Brian Vick, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden is now shut down for the winter. Volunteers in the garden produced 9,913 pounds of high quality produce for FeedMore’s Community Kitchen. Weight distribution by type: Tomatoes – 5,594.5 lbs. Zucchini/ yellow squash – 3,035.5 lbs. Cauliflower – 460 [...]
Posted in facility events, gardenfest, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, 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 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 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 [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, volunteer on Nov 5th, 2011
by Erin Wright, Children’s Garden Educator & Horticulturist, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden You probably know that Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden has hundreds of volunteers, who work thousands of hours each year, all over the Garden. The Garden simply would not be what it is without the dedication and time our volunteers put in. But did you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 28th, 2011
by Dawn Lipscomb, Children’s Garden Program Instructor, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Note: ”Stickman” is the Garden’s ambassador for Patrick Dougherty’s Diamonds in the Rough stick sculpture at the Garden. Each week, the Children’s Garden staff moves Stickman to a new spot in the Garden — so our young visitors can search for him. Dawn Lipscomb, [...]
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