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Environmental Education
Find out how you can support legislation that strengthens and expands environmental education in America's classrooms and reconnects children with
nature.
Area Gardens
New Jersey
Greenwood
Gardens, Short Hills, NJ
Friends
of Frelingheysen Arboretum,
Morristown, NJ
Van
Vleck Gardens,
Montclair, NJ
New York
Brooklyn
Botanic Garden,
Brooklyn, NY
New
York Botanical Garden,
Bronx, NY
Staten
Island Botanical Garden,
Staten Island, NY
Wave
Hill,
Bronx, NY
Gardens & Outings
Duke Farms, a 2,700 acre estate in
Hillsborough, NJ, developed by tobacco and hydropower magnate James
Buchanan Duke beginning in 1893. Duke transformed more than 2000 acres
of farmland into an extraordinary landscape. www.dukefarms.org/page.asp?pageId=1
Stone Barns Center for Food and
Agriculture, 80 rolling acres of gardens, pastures and woods, where
the rich traditions of community-based farming merge with the 21st
century, Hudson Valley, NY www.stonebarnscenter.org.
www.fieldtrip.com/nj
- Find out what is available to you and your family in New Jersey to see
and do in one day (maybe more!).
www.aabga.org
- The American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta lists
gardens in the United States and abroad that are well worth the trip!
www.lakegardenswold.org
- The web site of the Lakewold Botanical Garden in Lakewold, Washington,
a similar garden to ours, but on the west coast.
Other Interesting & Useful Sites
The
Gardening Guru's Page - Horticultural answers are waiting for you at
this web site. From tools to plants of the month, you'll find what you
are looking for here.
Mindy Lighthipe, botanical
illustrator. www.bugsbeastsbotanicals.com.
The
City of Summit - The web site of the City of Summit.
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