Real World Horticulture Education for Youth
Imagine you’re an inner city high school student offered a job working in your neighborhood, learning new skills that you’ll be able to turn into a career. That’s exactly what the […]
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2015: A Stellar Year!
Trying to encapsulate a year at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in a blog post is impossible. How can you capture this dynamic, multi-dimensional entity? Is it with beautiful photos of […]
Ruler of the Ginkgo
In front of Bloemendaal House, a botanical oddity grows on the grounds of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. Our Ginkgo biloba happens to be the one female, besides Grace Arents, that […]
Helping Hands of Youth!
One of the fun things about my job is all the people — the people that visit the Garden and the people the help us in the Garden volunteering. Last Saturday, […]
Dot’s Garden
Like footprints in the snow, each of us leaves our mark on this world when we pass through it. We touch people’s lives, sometimes in ways that last only a […]
Meet Children’s Garden Intern Kittie Storey
Meet Children’s Garden Summer Intern Kittie Storey. Kittie works with our Youth Volunteer Summer Program on Tuesdays and Thursdays, helping with supervision, horticulture knowledge, and by being a positive role model. She […]
Craft Beer Craze
For those you out there that consider yourselves lovers of craft beer and beautiful gardens, you might already be aware of a fun new partnership that started in 2015. The […]
A Hippopotamus-sized Harvest!
This is turning out to be a very successful season in the the Community Kitchen Garden. It’s the second week of July, and this week we delivered 518 lbs. of […]
Thanks to the “RAIN” Makers
Thank you RAIN (Richmond Autism Integration Network) for volunteering in the Children’s Garden. This group is not afraid to get dirty and help out in the Garden. Today they mulched […]
Helping Hands in the Garden
It’s been a great, but hot, week in the Community Kitchen Garden. This week we took two deliveries to Feedmore’s Community Kitchen for a combined total of 478 lbs. This one […]