Posts Tagged ‘gardening education’
Compost Awareness Week: Nurturing the Earth with Nature’s Alchemy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 6, 2022 Dearest reader, This week, we celebrate International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW), a vital annual event that promotes the art and science of composting. From May 1st to May 7th, 2025,…
Read MoreHelen Mirren: From Stage to Soil—A Journey into Pomegranate Farming
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 7, 2020 Dearest garden reader, On this day, the world caught a glimpse of a different facet of the luminous Dame Helen Mirren, a renowned English actor and a surprisingly devoted gardener and farmer.…
Read MoreFrances Garnet Wolseley: Pioneer of Women’s Gardening Education
Gardening for Women December 24, 1936 Today is the anniversary of the death of the influential English gardening author and instructor, Frances Garnet Wolseley. A lifelong single lady, Frances devoted herself to gardening and gardening education. In 1902, on her thirtieth birthday, Frances created the Glynde College for Lady Gardeners on her father’s garden in…
Read MoreLouise Klein Miller: Pioneer of School Gardens and Memorial Landscape Architect
The Female Landscape Architect The St. Cloud Times runs a story about a Miss Louise Klein Miller. Louise, at the age of 84, was retiring as supervisor of Cleveland’s Memorial Gardens – after supervising them for over a quarter of a century. The first woman to attend Cornell University’s school of forestry, Louise became the…
Read MoreJohann Julius Hecker: The Educator Who Cultivated Practical Learning and Gardens
Cancelling Classical Education Today is the birthday of the German theologian and educator, Johann Julius Hecker, who was born on this day in 1707. Hecker recognized that a classical education didn’t work for everyone, and so he founded secondary schools that prepared students for practical jobs and callings. Hecker referred to his schools as, “the…
Read MoreBernadette Cozart: The Woman Who Planted Hope in Harlem
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 17, 2024 On this day, dear fellow cultivators of beauty, we celebrate the birth of a true revolutionary in the world of urban gardening. Bernadette Cozart, born in 1949, was not content…
Read MoreInternational Compost Awareness Week: Cool the Climate-Compost!
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 10, 2019 This week, from May 5 to May 11, 2019, gardeners, environmentalists, and compost enthusiasts worldwide come together to celebrate International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW). Established in Canada in 1995, ICAW…
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