Jun 18th, 2009
Community Kitchen Garden: Tomato Suckers and More!
By Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Do you know what I love about this volunteer gig? Every time I go to the garden I learn something new […]
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Jun 12th, 2009
Community Kitchen Garden: Weeds and Bugs – Two Guaranteed Occurrences in Gardening!
by Janine Butler, garden volunteer In last week’s blog, I commented on how well all the plants had been growing over the last couple of weeks. Well guess what else […]
Read MoreJun 4th, 2009
Community Kitchen Garden: Look What's Growing!
By Janine Butler, garden volunteer What a difference a couple of weeks can make! Look at these pictures that were taken this morning: The squash seeds that we planted a […]
Read MoreMay 20th, 2009
Community Kitchen Garden: Girl Power Gets it Done!
By Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Under the watchful eye of Tom Brinda, Assistant Executive Director of Horticulture & Education, the first team of vegetable garden […]
Read MoreMay 15th, 2009
Community Kitchen Garden: Planting Day Success!
By Janine Butler, garden volunteer Today was awesome! About a hundred people participated in the celebration planting day this morning, including a group of 20 4- and 5-year-old students from New Directions Daycare. […]
Read MoreMay 7th, 2009
Community Kitchen Garden: Are you a Locavore?
by Janine Butler, garden volunteer In November 2007 the Oxford University Press announced locavore as the Word of the Year. No, until recently I had never heard of it either. […]
Read MoreApr 30th, 2009
Community Kitchen Garden: Planting Day is May 14th!
by Janine Butler, garden volunteer Planting day has been scheduled! If you’d like to come witness the planting of the Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter, mark your calendars for […]
Read MoreApr 23rd, 2009
Community Kitchen Garden: Plans for Planting
by Janine Butler, garden volunteer I went to a local store at the weekend with my neighbor, Susan, who was buying a few plants for her own home vegetable garden. […]
Read MoreApr 16th, 2009
Community Kitchen Garden: Breaking Ground
by Janine Butler, Garden volunteer You may have already heard some of the buzz about an exciting new project here at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden — the plan is to […]
Read MoreMar 27th, 2009
Gardens Growing Families Offers Garden Plots in Lakeside
In an effort to get folks to grow more of their own food, and save some money in the process, Henrico County Extension Office is trying to encourage folks to […]
Read MoreMar 25th, 2009
Lewis Ginter to Grow 10,000 lbs of Food for Local Foodbank
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden What do the Obamas and Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden have in common? Easy — we are both trying to do […]
Read MoreNov 26th, 2008
The Age-old Practice of Gleaning is Finally Finding the Limelight
I’ve got to credit the ladies over at GardenRant for bringing this to my attention. This week the New York Times wrote a short (but amazing) story about how a […]
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