Samuel McCutchen Bain

…Professor Bain was made Instructor of Botany and Geology and Assistant Botanist in the Agricultural Experiment Station. He was advanced in position gradually and was made Professor of Botany in…

James Arthur Doubles, Jr.

…Carolina at Chapel Hill in September, 1931. He earned an A.B. in Botany in 1935, then continued at Carolina to earn an M.A. in Botany in 1938 studying with Dr….

What is Therapeutic Horticulture?

…conditions in American psychiatric facilities and advocated for utilizing farming and gardening activities as a treatment intervention with patients. After World War I and II (early-late 1900’s), veteran hospitals used…

Fall Board Meeting 2023

…& Research, Wageningen, Netherlands ICF Certified, Life and Corporate Coaching, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching Niels Lameijer has served as an NCBGF Director since 2023. He is currently serving…

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

…studied medicine at the Berkshire Medical Institution in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a school which was founded in 1821 and had its last commencement in 1867. He graduated from this school in…

Mary Eugenia Wharton

…importance of field studies in botany; she searched for plants throughout Kentucky, gathering data that she would later use in her books. In 1942, she discovered an unnamed species of…