Events at Missouri Botanical Garden all start in a similar way: cool, dark, and calm before thousands of visitors arrive to enjoy the day. Staff and volunteers arrive early to the quiet grounds of the Garden to prepare, including the Zero Waste Ambassadors team of volunteers dedicated to reducing the waste sent to the landfill…
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Herbs of the Mediterranean
The St. Louis Herb Society Herb Sale returns to the Missouri Botanical Garden with a focus on Mediterranean herbs.
Holidays at the Garden
With something for everyone, Garden Glow offers the most complete holiday experience in the St. Louis region.
The Garden Events Green Team
Zero Waste Ambassador volunteers help reduce the “waste line” of the Missouri Botanical Garden’s signature events. You can join this movement as a volunteer. It’s educational, impactful, shady and fun! Signature events like Japanese Festival and Best of Missouri Market are among the most popular activities at the Missouri Botanical Garden, offering thousands of visitors…
Getting the Most from the Green Living Festival
What energy-saving actions will work best where you live? How can you waste less by reusing, recycling and composting? How can plants help you and our environment be healthier? The Green Living Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden offers sustainable solutions to these questions and more. A Day of Hands-on Learning Each…
Discover + Share: The Best of 2017
This year marked the first year for Discover + Share, a new blog from the Missouri Botanical Garden. Our goal was to give visitors a glimpse of the Garden most don’t often get to see or experience–to share our stories and help you learn a little more about the many facets of the Garden’s mission….
Missouri Botanical Garden Members’ Board: Growing the Garden Since 1939
Enacting the mission of the Missouri Botanical Garden would not be possible without the dedicated support of the Garden’s many members. In fact, without members, the Garden as we know it today may not even exist. In 1939, the Garden confronted significant financial woes. The strain of the Depression and the challenge of maintaining the…
Ever-greener Garden Events
In 2011, Garden events went super-green, adding food waste composting to our garden-variety recycling. This fall’s Best of Missouri Market® will mark seven years of evolving our sustainability efforts, as we host tens of thousands of guests. Recycling has long been standard practice for Garden signature events, including Chinese Culture Days, Green Homes Festival, Japanese…
The Hidden Treasures of Teahouse Island
Seiwa-en, the Missouri Botanical Garden’s 14-acre Japanese Garden, is designed for discovery. Visitors who peer into secluded nooks will often be rewarded with unique views and other sensory delights. The most secluded area of all sits at the center of the 4-acre Japanese Garden lake. Nakajima, Teahouse Island, is the largest of the four islands in Seiwa-en, and…
How to Keep Your Summer Picnic Sustainable
Summer would not be the same at the Garden without the Whitaker Music Festival, the outdoor concert series presented annually by the Whitaker Foundation on Wednesday evenings from May 29 through July 31, and regular festival attendees know the festival experience would not be the same without a picnic. On all Whitaker Music Festival performance…
Leading by Example: EarthWays Center Celebrates 15 Years at the Garden
As Deborah Frank, Glenda Abney, and Jean Ponzi sit down to reflect on the Garden’s “zero waste” efforts for the 2015 Best of Missouri Market & More, they finish each other’s sentences, talking about what worked and what didn’t. Their view of the event, however, is through a green lens. They see dumpsters full of…