Therapeutic Horticulture History and Staff

…a horticultural therapist and consultant. Stemming from a formalized education in social work, years of in-field horticulture experience, and a horticultural therapy certificate from the Horticultural Therapy Institute of Denver,…

Joachim Heinrich Schuette

…Joachim Heinrich Schuette died on 21 July, 1908 and is buried in Woodlawyn Cemetery, Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin.4 In the 1910 US Federal Census, two years after Joachim died,…

Happy Birthday, Psilocybe!

…Earle described the species in 1906. Psilocybe is a genus of gilled mushrooms that are found worldwide. Historically there were about 15 species of Psilocybe in North Carolina, but most…

Fall Board Meeting 2023

NCBGF Fall Board Meeting Friday, November 17, 2023 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Hybrid NCBG – Joslin Classrooms or via Zoom Join online: https://unc.zoom.us/s/96128624304 Join by phone: 1-301-715-8592 Enter Meeting…

Spreading the Herbarium Gospel

…taxonomy. It would be exciting to find a specimen or two collected by David Augustus Williston when he taught at NC A&T in 1898!   SOURCES: 1. https://www.nps.gov/articles/david-williston-learning-from-leaders.htm accessed on…

Rachel Milner Fell Treakle

…North Bloomington would be three-fourths of a mile from the Illinois Central and Chicago-Alton Railroad junction, the State Board of Education decided in the Summer of 1857 that Bloomington would…

James Arthur Doubles, Jr.

…Chapel Hill. James Arthur Doubles, Jr. collected myxomycetes for his graduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Most of his labels are handwritten in pencil on…

Work from Home Work-Study Students

When Carolina shifted to all on-line classes at the end of Spring Break due to Covid-2019, we faced the challenge of how to keep our loyal and hard-working Work-Study Students…