Green Spring Gardens - Upcoming Events

Green Spring Gardens is a "must visit" for everyone in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. It's a year-round gold mine of information and inspiration for the home gardener. It's an outdoor classroom for children and their families to learn about plants and wildlife. It's also a museum, a national historic site that offers glimpses into a long, rich history with colonial origins.

3/19/2011

Urban Small Space Gardening (18-Adult)

Location: Green Spring Gardens Park

Start Time/Day: 10am Sat

Whether you have a townhouse garden or a small lot in the city, we'll talk about creative ways to cope and maximize the space. Kathy Jentz, Washington Gardener Magazine's Editor/Publisher provides a glimpse at lovely gardens in the area, including Alexandria, Georgetown, Capitol Hill and Falls Church to provide you with ideas for your garden.

3/25/2011

Basic Gardening: Gardening for Birds

Location: Green Spring Gardens Park

Start Time/Day: 1:30pm Fri

The Green Spring Master Gardeners are here to guide beginning gardeners on a journey that never ends but gets richer and richer with each passing season. Join us for these intimate, informal classes that reveal gardening basics.

For more upcoming gardening and environmental activities, visit our new Events, Classes, Volunteer Opportunities Page for local calendars.

A Community of Gardeners - the movie

Wow! I have only seen the trailer of the new documentary, A Community of Gardeners, but it is awe inspiring! The film, directed and produced by Cintia Cabib, "explores the vital role of seven D.C. urban community gardens as sources of fresh, nutritious food, outdoor classrooms, places of healing, links to immigrants’ native countries and oases of beauty and calm in inner-city neighborhoods."

A Community of Gardeners Trailer from Cintia Cabib on Vimeo.

There will be a showing of this documentary on  Thursday, March 24, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm at the  National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave., NW., Washington, DC

Join other Sierra Club supporters in attending an Environmental Film Festival selection focused on D.C., "A Community of Gardeners":
Throughout Washington, D.C., people of all ages, backgrounds and nationalities are gardening side by side, growing vegetables, fruits and flowers in community gardens. Some are looking for basic sustenance, others for a way to remember their homelands, still others for a place to find a respite from their troubles. Through the voices of young people, senior citizens, immigrants, garden volunteers and educators, this documentary explores the vital role of seven D.C. urban community gardens as sources of fresh, nutritious food, outdoor classrooms, places of healing, links to immigrants’ native countries and oases of beauty and calm in inner-city neighborhoods. The film also looks back on the history of community gardens in the United States, from the potato patch farms of the late 19th century, to the victory gardens of World War II, to community gardening’s current renaissance. Directed and produced by Cintia Cabib.

RESERVATIONS are encouraged for this showing and can be made by emailing reservations@nmwa.org or calling 202-783-7370.
Tickets: $5, General Admission; $4, Members, Seniors and Students.

For more information on the film visit: A Community of Gardeners