The Garden Club of the Back Bay

The Children’s Garden Network is pleased to announce the launching of the 2009 Winter School for parents, teachers, administrators, community members, gardening friends and others interested and/or engaged in growing garden education programs at schools and youth organizations. The CGN Winter School is being sponsored by Whole Foods Markets through proceeds from its 5% Day being held at store locations on Tuesday, February 10, 2009. The Winter School will be hosted by the URI/CELS Outreach Center at the Roger Williams Park Botanical Center in Providence.  For more information, contact Stu Nunnery at 401-592-0209, or log on to www.farmfresh.org.

Artist Anne Schmalz creates illustrated interpretive signs that encourage travelers in the Bussey Brook meadow to look closely at this unique urban wild within the Arnold Arboretum landscape.  The seasonally rotated signs along the Blackwell Footpath iinvite visitors to notice wildflowers, seed pods, animal tracks, and signs of ecological change in a reclaimed urban landscape.  Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall, Arnold Arboreum.  For more information log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu.