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Posted in Children's Garden, community, Education, Garden Volunteers on May 4th, 2013
Text & photos by Kristin Mullen, Children’s Garden Educator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden What do you get when you take an empty field, add piles of twigs, branches, moss, cardboard boxes, stumps, seed pods, pine cones, raffia, magnolia leaves and fabric, and then add hundreds of children and their adults? A Loose Parts Party! That’s exactly what [...]
Posted in Education, Horticulture on Apr 28th, 2013
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden When I met with Ellen Shepard, the woman behind the intricate gardens and orchard at Linwood Holton Elementary School, I never expected to end up talking about zombies, But that’s exactly how it happened. Zombie plants that is. I’d never heard of them, but you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23rd, 2012
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Greater Richmond ARC‘s effort to facilitate people with developmental disabilities volunteering in meaningful work is growing, and now includes weekly visits to Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden to work on gardening projects. Groups of 10 adults with special needs travel with ARC staffers to Lewis Ginter [...]
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