Jonah Holland

About Jonah Holland

Jonah Holland is Digital Content Manager at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, where she has worked for 14 years overseeing social media, the blog, and the website. She is also a mom, yogi, open water swimmer, gardener, and seeker. She's been known to go for a walk in the Garden and come back with hundreds of plant photos, completely inspired to write her next blog post.

Aug 15th, 2011

Scoring Big, Then & Now

Note: We already brought you the update on the tally or our deliveries last week, but Albert Brian Vick, our Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator has a special report for you […]

Aug 14th, 2011

Breakfast on a Stick, or the “Perfect” Weed?

by Albert Brian Vick Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator We’ve allowed this Amaranth plant to mature – so far – in the Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden, adjacent […]

Aug 13th, 2011

Good Enough to Eat?

by Albert Brian Vick Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator At the Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden we’ve produced several stellar specimens of “weeds” so far this season. […]

Aug 11th, 2011

Yellow Tomatoes, Anyone?

by Albert Brian Vick Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator It almost seems counter-intuitive for the idea of growing tomatoes, but sunshine is a double-edged sword. Tomato fruits […]

Aug 10th, 2011

Worth Their Weight in Gold

by Albert Brian Vick Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator These three volunteers may have set a harvesting record yesterday in the Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden. Within […]

Aug 9th, 2011

Top Ten

by Albert Brian Vick Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator Always a provocative title, but here’s the thing. You’ve seen the pie tins hung in gardens to keep […]

Aug 7th, 2011

Entomology 102: Leaf Bugs

by Albert Brian Vick Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator This post is course number “102″, following the Entomology 101 course recently experienced in-depth with the Squash Bugs. […]

Jul 30th, 2011

All Kinds of Wingnuts

by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden A few months ago, a friend introduced me to a new tree. He showed me a painting that looked a […]

Jul 24th, 2011

Lewis Ginter’s Youth Volunteer Program Offers Meaningful Volunteer Experiences

by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The Children’s Garden has many fans. But some of its biggest supporters don’t know about everything that happens in the […]

Jul 13th, 2011

Eat Your Veggies! And How.

by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Recently, NBC12’s Gene Cox reported on the Richmond Region’s “food deserts.” A food desert, Cox explains, is an area where […]

Jun 1st, 2011

'Tis the Season for Flowers After 5

by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Despite today’s heat, I’m so happy that summer is finally here. Summer at the Garden means children fighting the birds […]

May 19th, 2011

Sabot at Stony Point School: The Birds' Nests & the Meadowmorphosis

by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Note: Over the next few weeks, we will bring you updates on the progress of the Patrick Dougherty stick sculpture installation […]

May 18th, 2011

Ginter Gallery II Exhibition Features Dougherty Work from 1708 Gallery & Around the World

by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, & Randee Humphrey, Director of Education, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The next time you come to the Garden, make sure you take a detour […]

May 3rd, 2011

Effortless Gardening Class, New at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

by Cathy Butler, guest blogger & instructor at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Cathy Butler is a certified Feldenkrais Method® instructor, who will be teaching a class on Effortless Gardening™ at Lewis Ginter Botanical […]

Apr 30th, 2011

Meadowmorphosis: Where do these sticks come from?

Note: Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is working in concert with the Virginia Department of Forestry to harvest young red maple saplings in Chesterfield County and sweet gum saplings from Hanover County […]