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Go Public Gardens Days is the Association’s annual celebration of public gardens from the Friday before to the Sunday after Mother’s Day, May 12-21, 2023.
Learn about how the Association will promote the days, what your garden can do to help...
Speaker Gerald Dieleman, Senior Director, Horticulture at Assiniboine Park Conservancy, will share with you an introduction to The Leaf and the new Outdoor Gardens of the Leaf at Assiniboine Park. How The Leaf is plays a role in connecting people to...
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Focal Points
Urban Agriculture Resilience Program
Creating Livable Cities
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In case you missed it in December! LaManda Joy, Co-Founder of The Great Grow Along, is back to discuss the upcoming Virtual Garden Festival, which is taking place from March 10 to March 19, 2023! In addition to this amazing - and free - event that may...
Join us for this Lunch & Learn to get insight on improving your school field trips and programming! Learn how Erin Smaldone, Education Director at from West Virginia Botanic Garden, approaches school program planning. Topics covered will include...
Learn about all things Public Garden – the quarterly journal of the American Public Gardens Association produced by Association members for Association members.
Join Association Staff and the Chair of the Editorial Advisory Group (EAG...
Children’s gardens have been an increasingly popular addition to North American public gardens in the last two decades. Unlike their counterparts established in healthcare facilities and early-education centers, children’s gardens in public gardens are...
Many gardens turned to Zoom in a hurry last year to build out virtual programming for youth and adult educational programs, large meetings, and other events. The convenience and accessibility of online programming helped broaden audiences and overcome...
The United Nations has established a new decade, beginning in 2020, focused on the power of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). “ESD for 2030” calls for educators to help advance new skills, empower youth, increase public awareness, and build...
This webinar will introduce extension agents to concepts of urban ecology, which addresses the intricate relationship between humans and urban trees, air, water, soil, wildlife, and more.
The world has become increasingly urban with roughly half...
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Additional Content: Vol. 35, No. 1
Learning in the Garden
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Despite the importance of bees, there is a gap in the public's understanding of them. To help address this gap, we developed the outreach tool Experience Bees, a series of simple learning and hands-on activities to teach community members about bees...
Limited funding for STEAM education can create barriers that hamper program
offerings, student participation, staffing, professional development, resources or
access to after-school programs. States have taken innovative approaches to...
After opening the Lena Meijer Children's Garden in 2004, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park saw a 25% increase in membership and observed that more young families were visiting Meijer Gardens than ever before. Staff were presented with a new...
In this issue BGCI considers how to develop education programmes from scratch, a curse and blessing that can be infrequently bestowed on botanic garden educators in gardens with well-established public engagement offers...
