Explore a Seven-Layer Forest Garden

…along the base of the hill on which the 1980s house sits. About 20 years ago, the second homeowner, inspired by NC state parks, established a more extensive network of…

Annual Membership Meeting 2023

Annual NCBGF Membership Meeting Friday, November 17, 2023 1 – 2 p.m. Virtual, Zoom Join online: https://unc.zoom.us/s/92157457373 Join by phone: 1-305-224-1968 Enter Meeting ID: 921 5745 7373 Membership Meeting (Virtual…

Samuel McCutchen Bain

…his scientific education was obtained for the most part by independent study. He studied French and German under the instruction of Miss Evelyn Franklin, whom he married at Henderson, Tennessee,…

Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium

…tree, who collected them, and most importantly, how big were the cores? Would they fit in standard herbarium cases? Tyler Mitchell collects a tree core as part of his research…

Therapeutic Horticulture History and Staff

…surrounding communities have benefited from the dedicated leadership of several passionate program managers: Judy Carrier: 1978-1984 Bibby Moore: 1984-1992 Nancy Easterling: 1992-2009 Sally Haskett: 2009- 2021 Emilee Weaver: 2022-present Read…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…Mr. Stearn’s schoolhouse on Free Street for the purpose of organizing an investigative society to study Nature. Those in attendance were already well known in Maine and in other parts…

Hugo Leander Blomquist

…225-229.   SOURCES: SERNEC Data Portal. 2023. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed on December 04. Anderson, Lewis E. (1965) In memoriam: Hugo Leander Blomquist 1885 [sic]-1964. The Bryologist 68(2): 251-254. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3241029…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

…NCU’s specimens collected by Walker are from the environs of the District of Columbia and from North Carolina (particularly Polk County). It seems likely that his collecting activities in Polk…