7 Best Garden Nonprofit Organizations to Support This Year on Earth Day Veranda 1 hr ago © ANNIE SCHLECHTER These organizations are top picks from the VERANDA editors.
Call it a biophilia boom: this year’s top interior design trends, from the growing movement of decorating with houseplants to the surge of green rooms (and kitchens!) trending on our Instagram feeds, prove that nature is having a moment especially at home. Perhaps this was to be expected. After all, the coronavirus pandemic along with other difficult events and circumstances of the past year have reminded us of nature’s soul-soothing power. This year, we’re celebrating Earth Day by highlighting seven of our editors’ favorite garden nonprofit organizations, from those that support“Learning Gardens” in schools or facilitate garden and landscaping curricula in prisons to nonprofits that seek to protect global biodiversity via seed exchange and tree planting.
7 Best Garden Nonprofit Organizations to Support 2021
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Innisfree Garden, Millbrook
This 185-acre oasis is one of the great outdoor treasures of the Hudson Valley. In every season, there is a spectacular painterly quality to the landscape and a sense of utter calm. It takes about 90 minutes to walk around the 40-acre glacial lake that forms the centerpiece of the property.
The garden opens on April 24 and 25 for members only, and then the following weekend, May 1 and 2, it opens for everyone. Starting on May 8, they will resume their regular schedule of Wednesdays through Sundays and legal holidays. The regular hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Once again, they are asking for people to reserve online; go to their website for more information. Admission is $10; $5 for seniors (65+) and children (ages 5-15); free for Innisfree members and young children (ages 4 and under).
Artistic movements in architecture are often Utopian in their impulses, as I mentioned. This film explores the utopian community. Modernism, Brutalism, Bauhaus, all these sorts of things, began as genuinely Utopian visions for how societies could or should be engineered to make homes and buildings a better steward of human energy. This film explores the little community that formed around experimental handmade cottages made by star architects and designers now abandoned, existing as ruins in a beautiful national park in Massachusetts and the strong idealist bonds formed there.
So much of American and Australian architecture carries a desire to reject the worst excesses of classism and elitism in European traditions and to build something new, with new materials and new ideas and new social structures. Utopianism is a foundational impulse in both architectural theory and science fiction traditions. People with such good intent never quite see the full outcome of what they may pro
Enchanting Spring Gardens to Visit in The Hudson Valley
The perfect spring day consists of high 70s and sunny. Do you ever have the urge to just get your car and roll the windows down on days like that? It seems that joy rides and even night strolls are so peaceful here in the Hudson Valley.
I love cruising around finding the next best thing to see or explore. One of my favorite adventures consists of visiting flower gardens. The smell of fresh blossoming flowers during this month screams spring. Although some gardens may still be in the process of growing, it s handy to keep this in mind when the time is right.
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