Hello and welcome to my gardening blog! I’m Rudie…I just graduated from J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College this spring with an associates degree in horticulture technology. I developed an interest in gardening several years ago when my mom wanted to replace some trees in the corner of our yard with a flower garden. Since then, I have started my own landscaping business, Verougstraete Landscaping LLC, and do extensive study on various trees and shrubs, particularly propagation and the development of new varieties and cultivars. Feel free to poke around this blog…I hope you find the information posted here useful and insightful, and I welcome your comments!
Posted by Nancy Tait on August 17, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Hi Rudie,
I already follow you on Twitter – I tweet for the Science Museum of Virginia as @ScienceMusofVa. I believe you’ve already done some work with Katie Gantt on our Green Acre Farm and it dawns on me that you may want to blog about what we’re doing. We have an event on Thursday morning that may interest you. – info is below. Let me know.
Nancy Tait
Science Museum of Virginia Green Acre Farm Harvest
When: Thursday, Aug. 19, 10 a.m.
Where: Green Acre Farm is behind the Science Museum of Virginia at the corner of DMV Drive and Leigh Street.
Kids from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond will help harvest produce from the Science Museum of Virginia’s Green Acre Farm on Thursday, Aug. 19, at 10 a.m. Representatives from the Central Virginia Food Bank will be on hand to collect and later distribute the harvest. The Science Museum of Virginia has already donated 1,000 pounds to the Food Bank and more is on the way.
All summer volunteers have been helping maintain the Green Acre. Help has come from many places including Richmond Public School third graders from five different schools, who started seedlings for the Pizza Garden. It features ingredients you would find on a pizza – tomatoes, peppers and basil. A fall planting is now in the works.
How did the Green Acre come about?
The Green Acre benefits from generous grants and in-kind donations from The Richard Gwathmey and Caroline T. Gwathmey Memorial Trust, Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation and Southern States Cooperative Inc.
Why Green Acre Farm?
Green Acre shows how gardening in an urban setting can improve the environment and human health. In addition to providing food and teaching children where vegetables originate, the farm helps reconnect people with nature. The environment also benefits as farm soil absorbs rain and keeps water from polluting streams and rivers.
Media Contact: Nancy Tait
804-864-1407
ntait@smv.org
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