by Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Sadly, this will be the last edition of blog posts about the Community Kitchen Garden for this growing season. We have harvested […]
Read Moreby Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The growing season may be over, but there’s still plenty to be done in the Community Kitchen Garden and a little bit […]
Read Moreby Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Yes, you read that correctly. The heat of summer may only just be over, and many people are looking forward to the […]
Read Moreby Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Well, the pools are closed for the year and the kids are back in school; I guess that means that summer is […]
Read Moreby Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden We are two-thirds of the way to our goal of donating 10,000 pounds of vegetables to FeedMore! (FeedMore is the umbrella organization […]
Read Moreby Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden I have been working in the vegetable garden at Lewis Ginter for several months now; planting the vegetables, weeding and mulching, and […]
Read Moreby Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden This week we spent some time tending the home demo garden. This is a small raised bed, approximately 4’ by 12’ that […]
Read MoreBy 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 […]
Read Moreby 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 MoreBy 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 MoreBy 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 MoreBy 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 Moreby 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 Moreby 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 Moreby 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. […]
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