September’s Garden Chores
September 2018 By Scott Canning, Horticulture and Special Projects Director If you have not thrown in the trowel for the year, I salute you. And your continued work in the garden will pay future dividends. Remember that terrifying adage: “One [...]
August’s Garden Chores
August 2018 By Scott Canning, Horticulture and Special Projects Director It is too easy to give up on the garden in August, but DON’T; “letting things go” now will make for more work in the future, and may mean weed [...]
Northern New Mexico Master Naturalist Certification Now Offered
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Become certified as a Master Naturalist in this twelve week course focusing on the ecology of Northern New Mexico. This in-depth course provides a combination of classroom and field experiences that will equip participants with the [...]
July’s Garden Chores
July 2018 By Scott Canning, Director of Horticulture Want to know what to accomplish in your garden in July? Here’s two words: water and weed. Think of it this way: weeds steal water and nutrients from your garden plants, so [...]
May’s Garden Chores
May 2018 By Scott Canning, Director of Horticulture May is the month that warms our gardening souls and then breaks our hearts. We seem to always have nice, warm weather in March and April that pushes our spring-blooming plants into [...]
April’s Garden Chores
April 2018 By Scott Canning, Director of Horticulture Oh my, here we are: Late winter, turning into our precocious, New Mexico “spring”. Procrastinator that I am, I should have given my readers a March to-do list, but… Lengthening days (especially [...]
SFBG and Cooking with Kids receive AmeriCorps Planning Grant
March 7, 2018 The Santa Fe Botanical Garden (SFBG) has recently embarked on a new endeavor in education. In partnership with fellow local non-profit, Cooking with Kids, SFBG is exploring the possibility of hosting an AmeriCorps program. AmeriCorps works to [...]
The Share the Experience Pass Gives Free Admission to Cultural Institutions
The STEP provides connects regional library users with free admission at four Santa Fe arts and culture institutions. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, and the Santa Fe Children’s Museum are proud [...]
Santa Fe Botanical Garden Sharpens their Skills with the Sentinel Plant Network
For Immediate Release Santa Fe Botanical Garden Sharpens their Skills with the Sentinel Plant Network February 20, 2018 – Santa Fe, New Mexico We are pleased to announce that Santa Fe Botanical Garden continued its sixth year of active involvement [...]
Summer Youth Culture Passport is BACK for 2018!
We are excited to announce that we will once again be participating in the Summer Youth Culture Passport. Last year’s passport program brought over 400 children and teens to events and cultural institutions throughout Santa Fe. Tentative dates: May 28 [...]
Update on Invasive Species Control at Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve
February 9, 2018 The Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve (LCWP) is in the midst of a large, long-term project to restore the cienega. The preserve will not look the same and at first the change may seem stark. But we do [...]
