Oct 24th, 2013

Goblins & Gourds is Sunday, Don’t Miss it!

by Jonah Holland

by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra

Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra

We have so much fun planned for you this Sunday at Goblins & Gourds.

Celebrate harvest-time in the Children’s Garden with a concert by the Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra, pumpkin painting, seasonal food tasting, hoop dancing and more! It’s a great chance to get outside, be active and enjoy the beauty of the season.

 Activities include:
  • Parade around the Children’s Garden with the GardenKeeper and the Butterfly Fairy 2 p.m.
  • Gourd Petting Zoo provide by RIGO
  • Fresh and seasonal food tasting provided by Edible Education
  • Paint a pumpkin to take home (while supplies last)
  • Pumpkin, Gourd and Stick carving demonstrations
  • Hoop demonstrations and instruction for the whole family provided by RVA HoOp HOuse
  • Tree Climbing demonstration, Riverside Outfitters 
  • Gourd Quest available at Garden Cart and admissions desk.

Hope you can make it!  Never been to Goblins & Gourds before? Here’s a video to give you an idea of what  you’ll see:

 

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.

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