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For Oak Spring’s landscapers, ensuring that the land is primed for native species has meant transforming hundreds of acres of former horse pastures into wild meadow and forest. While not an easy task, it has been one full of surprises, challenges, and opportunities for study and experimentation. Here are some of the current projects they’ve been working on.
Read MoreIn honor of Indigenous People’s Day on October 13, we are highlighting several traditional farming and land management methods, used by native peoples throughout the Americas for thousands of years, that we are proud to utilize at OSGF.
Read MoreIn honor of National Farmer’s Day, we spoke to newest BCCF team member Caitlin Etherton for her thoughts on the job.
Read MoreCheck out these ecological landscaping tips from award-winning ecological landscape designer Larry Weaner’s Wednesday night lecture in Middleburg.
Read MoreDid you know that one of the first documented instances of pumpkin cultivation in the U.S. was in 1582? Read about the history of October’s iconic squash - now being harvested at our Bio-Cultural Conservation Farm - in our latest blog post!
Read MoreClick here to see our artists in residency, who spent two weeks exploring landscape and biodiversity this September.
Read MoreWe are excited to announce a new residency program in partnership with Hedgebrook– a literary arts nonprofit that supports women writers whose stories and ideas shape our culture now and for generations to come.
Read MoreKnown as one of America's greatest landscape designers, Beatrix Farrand is often acknowledged as a creator of aesthetic beauty. Beyond this, though, she was an innovative and responsive designer who achieved what many landscape architects aspire to today – a perfect marriage of art and science.
Read MoreWithin the collections of rare botanical texts and seldom seen manuscripts housed at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation is a beautiful work by a largely unknown artist, Dorothea Eliza Smith. Her “Fruits of the Lima Market” – a collection of watercolors that she completed between 1850 and 1853 – stand out as an exemplary creation made even more impressive by her relative obscurity and the sparse details of her life.
Read MoreNowhere is the impact of garden clubs on the identity and influence of an entire community more apparent than in the history of so-called ‘Negro Garden Clubs,’ which helped give organized voice to African American communities during the first half of the 20th Century.
Read MoreThe Oak Spring Garden Foundation has selected 12 individuals to participate in the OSGF’s growing art and research programming for 2019. This year’s awardees include four Fellows and eight Artists in Residence.
Read MoreOne hundred years ago, in 1919, a ceramic pot was donated to the Charleston Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, bearing the name “Dave” and a short inscription. The story behind the pot, and the man who made it, is remarkable.
Read MoreGeorge Washington Carver did something with peanuts. We can’t always remember exactly what, but we know it was something impressive.
Read MoreToday, January 11th, is Aldo Leopold’s birthday. 2019 also marks the 70th anniversary of A Sand County Almanac, Leopold’s seminal work on environmental ethics.
Read MoreOver the river and through the wood, Christmas trees, boughs of holly. There is much to love about nature and the outdoors during the holiday season. If you are looking to create a new tradition, here are a couple nature-themed holiday ideas!
Read MoreDecember 11th is reserved by the United Nations General Assembly as International Mountain Day to give voice to mountain-specific issues and draws attention to neglected mountain areas and communities.
Read MoreTo celebrate World Soil Day, an international observance intended to draw attention to the importance of healthy soils, we are going to take a look at the hidden world beneath our feet.
Read MoreIf Thanksgiving is a day of gratitude for what we have, the days immediately following it seem to be a frenzy for obtaining more. The feverish consumerism fueled by Black Friday and Cyber Monday was given an more generous alternative in 2012 with the beginning of Giving Tuesday: a day to support and encourage charitable giving for the benefit of others.
Read MoreThe Oak Spring Garden Library is the proud home of four of Humphry Repton’s (1752-1818) “Red Books,” significant and rare works in the history of landscape design. To celebrate the bicentennial of Repton’s death, the Garden Museum in London recently opened an exhibition, “Repton Revealed: The Art of Landscape Gardening.”
Read MoreGardens are places of peace and reflection, and as we celebrate Veterans Day, Remembrance Day and Armistice Day, we can reflect on how plants have helped us heal in the dark times of war. Sometimes this healing is symbolic, and sometimes it is literal.
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